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Sunday30 June 2024
  • Fatima Payman

    Politics
    Fatima Payman suspended from Labor caucus over vow to cross the floor again on Palestine

    Party spokesperson says WA senator ‘placed herself outside the privilege’ of participation in caucus after defiant TV interview
  • Woman walking near a flooded road and a portable sign that reads 'community support facility'

    Domestic violence
    ‘War zone stuff’: women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters

  • Prime minister Rishi Sunak speaks to Mark Hill, a local community champion for veterans, as they sit with other former members of the armed forces, in his Richmond and Northallerton constituency on 29 June.

    UK election
    Tories cling to hope that wipeout polls are wrong as gallows humour kicks in

    Party hopes to limit damage by warning of ‘supermajority’ while thoughts also turn to aftermath of defeat

    • Rugby union
      Kurtley Beale’s Wallabies comeback in doubt due to serious injury

    • Explainer
      Is there such a thing as a ‘healthy high’? Experts are sceptical

    • Tyagarah
      Byron Bay is to be stripped of its nudist beach – and naturists blame ‘conservative creep’

    • Uncovered
      428-year-old secret dossier reveals Elizabeth I’s network of spies

    • US
      ‘Terrifying and dystopian’: the dark realities of the supreme court’s homelessness decision

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  • A Palestinian flag and an Israeli flag

    Revealed
    The tech entrepreneur behind a pro-Israel hate network

  • Kenan Malik

    Julian Assange is free, but his case is a grim reminder of the fragility of press freedom

    Kenan Malik
  • The RACQ CQ helicopter departed to Gumlu, Queensland, to join other emergency services at the scene of the bus crash.

    Queensland
    Three women killed, more injured in bus crash in Whitsunday region

    Bus was carrying 33 people when it came off Bruce Highway north of Gumlu on Sunday morning after crashing into four-wheel drive towing a caravan

Spotlight

  • Kevin Bacon, in a pale blue shirt, arms and hands resting on a table next to his black-framed glasses

    Interview
    ‘You have to get over the me thing’: Kevin Bacon on money, marriage – and learning to live with himself

    Kevin Bacon, Hollywood’s great survivor, first set hearts fluttering in the 1984 classic Footloose. Now 65, he’s back on the big screen again
  • Portrait of angry businessman outdoors on the phone

    My rather sweet Father’s Day joke got the men’s rights activists raging

    Séamas O’Reilly
  • Biden-Trump presidential campaign debate – Washington, United States

    Full Story podcast
    US Politics: why was the presidential debate such a disaster for Biden?

    Jonathan Freedland and Nikki McCann Ramirez of Rolling Stone look at who did better after the first presidential election campaign debate
  • Keir Stamer talking

    Ask Philippa
    My in-laws think Keir Starmer is ‘an idiot’. Should I pick a fight?

    Don’t fall out with these people who, apart from their political views, you really appreciate
    • Chris Martin fronts headliners Coldplay on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonburyon Saturday night.

      Glastonbury 2024
      Coldplay’s record return lights up Pyramid at a festival of melodrama

    • A train at a station with the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the background

      Public transport
      Are discounted fares for seniors too generous? Are they fair?

    • Spiderbait Press Shot 2 (credit Ian Laidlaw)

      10 Chaotic Questions
      Spiderbait’s Kram: ‘Which famous person would I fight? Anyone but Danny DeVito’

    • Top L-r Natalie, Adelaid, Khloe, Lily Front L-R Asha, Jasmine Oakes and Jasmine Francis pose for a picture at a training session for an up and coming hobby horse competition in Eumundi, Queensland, Australia. Photo: Paul Hilton / Guardian

      Horseplay
      ‘You don’t have to clean up after it’: why young Australians are getting on their hobby horses

Sport

  • Mark Cavendish cycling during the first stage of the Tour de France

    Cycling
    Cavendish fighting to stay in Tour de France after brutal first stage

  • Kurtley Beale poses in an Australia Wallabies guernsey

    Rugby union
    Beale’s Wallabies comeback in doubt due to serious injury

    • Campbell Johnstone poses at Distinction Hotel in Christchurch on 31 January 2023

      Campbell Johnstone
      My story has rekindled people’s love for rugby

    • Ball boys and girls form a long line in front of a building at Wimbledon.

      Tennis
      Ballkids? No thanks, we’ll stick to boys and girls says Wimbledon

    • Virat Kohli batting against South Africa

      South Africa’s search for absolution continues as Kohli finds formula

      Taha Hashim
    • World No 1 Iga Swiatek prepares for Wimbledon

      Tennis
      Swiatek aiming to serve up storm at Wimbledon amid wide-open field

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Opinion

  • Ribbons tied on the fence outside St Patrick’s Cathedral to represent survivors of child sexual abuse by clergy

    Ballarat’s history of sexual abuse is an an enduring wound. How can we heal together?

    Dellaram Vreeland
    The Victorian regional city has endorsed a design for a memorial to survivors of sexual violence, and to recognise historic abuse by Catholic clergy
  • Princess Anne and her husband Tim Laurence after attending the Order of the Garter service at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on 17 June, 2024.

    Is a slimmed-down monarchy really such a ‘foolish idea’? We subjects seem to be surviving just fine

    Catherine Bennett
    After Princess Anne’s accident, concerns over a too small royal family may be over-inflated
    • Supporters at the Yes to Marriage Equality Rally in Adelaide

      History shows Australian laws have left minorities marginalised. A Human Rights Act would help fix that

      Michael Kirby
    • Simon Tisdall

      America’s big problem is not Biden, it’s the menace to democracy posed by Trump

      Simon Tisdall
    • Renée DiResta, former research manager of the Stanford Internet Observatory, testifies to the US Senate, 2018.

      Closing the Stanford Internet Observatory will edge the US towards the end of democracy

      John Naughton
    • A middle-aged white woman holds her blond hair on top of her head and fans herself with a sheet of paper.

      Perimenopause finally gets more attention – because there’s something in it for men

      Arwa Mahdawi

Lifestyle

  • A woman and a cat warming themselves in front of an electric heater

    If you’re cold and miserable this winter in your freezing home, try this fun game

    Deirdre Fidge
  • Suzan Muir and Jon Muir in 2002 when they first got together

    The moment I knew
    On the long night walk, he had barely enough food for himself – but shared half with me

  • Felix Forest House - Sydney

    Interiors
    Two into one: a dramatic harbourside apartment in Sydney

  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2021 - NEW YORK, NEW YORK : Fran Lebowitz at The Players, also known as the Players Club, in Manhattan, New York. CREDIT: Adrienne Grunwald

    This much I know
    Fran Lebowitz: ‘I am very angry. I’m angry almost all the time’

Culture

  • Dr Hilary Caldwell at Tharwa in the ACT.

    Interview
    The sexologist who wants to build a ‘slutopia’ for women

  • Isabel Deroy-Olson walking alongside Lily Gladstone.

    Film
    Fancy Dance review – Lily Gladstone is sublime in moving Native American family drama

  • Landmark moment … Orbital (Phil, left, and Paul Hartnoll) play the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury 1995.

    Electronic music
    ‘We were the bridge between indie and dance’: Glastonbury pioneers Orbital on 30 years of breaking barriers

  • The Breeders led by Kim Deal in concert at the Troxy.

    Music
    The Breeders review – effortless pop gems from the grunge era

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Across the country

  • Detail of an Australian flag pictured on the uniform of Australian Army personnel

    Exclusive
    At least 16 probes into allegedly extremist or supremacist ADF personnel, documents show

    Documents reveal the ADF has conducted more than a dozen investigations into army and navy personnel since 2022
  • Former army lawyer David McBride

    Canberra
    ‘A real connection’: David McBride says he watched Assange’s jet approach through prison cell window

  • Sir Gustav Nossal in a laboratory

    Genetics
    Great science, uncomfortable history: Sir Gustav Nossal and the long tail of eugenics

    Book says one of Australia’s most eminent scientists promoted discussion of eugenics in the 1960s and 70s, but not that he supported racist ideas – and researchers praise his thorough commitment to reconciliation and racial justice
    • Unrecognisable young mother holding baby son in her arms

      Explainer
      1 July changes: tax cuts, Centrelink indexation and everything else coming for 2024-25

    • Victoria
      ‘A shift in thinking’: hospitality workers to be trained on identifying family violence risks

    • AI
      Cheap AI voice clones may wipe out jobs of 5,000 Australian actors

    • Victoria Cross
      Decision to award Ben Roberts-Smith extra medal made by King Charles, not Australia, Albanese says

    • NSW
      Man charged after woman found dead in Casino as police investigate force’s response

    • Weather
      Eastern Australia to shiver through cold week as snow predicted for ski fields in Victoria and NSW

    • Social media
      ‘Arrogant’ tech companies must ‘fess up’ to harm done to children, Albanese says

    • Health
      Mushroom gummies: powerful cannabis product could have caused ‘disturbing hallucinations’ and hospitalisations

The rural network

  • Archival image of the Warwick Daily News from 1974.

    Media
    ‘We don’t know what’s going on any more’: how Australia lost its rural newspapers

  • Voters on election day

    If Australians want better local representation, we need to pay councillors more

    Graeme Gibson
  • Landcare Facilitator and long-time volunteer Lyn Heenan on the rocky rise above the wetlands on her property in Stoneleigh, Victoria

    Victoria
    Landcare groups have 60,000 volunteers – but will there be funds to support them?

  • Calla Wahlquist

    Fury road: a forlorn hope that, for once, Australia would choose the hard path on climate

    Calla Wahlquist

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    In pictures
    Australia’s best photos of June 2024

    Nude swimmers make a splash, yoga students greet the solstice and contestants gear up for a hobby horse competition
  • Fans watching the Last Dinner Party at Other stage.

    Photo essay
    Coldplay, Cyndi Lauper and the Red Arrows: Saturday at Glastonbury 2024

  • Illustration of the Trump v Biden presidential debate

    Comment cartoon
    Chris Riddell on the Donald Trump v Joe Biden presidential debate

  • Oatcake shopfrontsof the Staffordshire Potteries photographed by David Fletcher.

    UK
    Oat cuisine: celebrating the oatcake sellers of Staffordshire

  • A person in a vest printed with the word 'LOVE' holding aloft a multi-coloured umbrella during the annual Pride parade on the streets of London.

    LGBTQ+ rights
    Pride in London – in pictures

  • Teenager sitting on her bed

    Smart shot
    It’s the quagmire of teenage existence - vulnerability with confidence

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    From the Observer archive
    The British experience of the Mediterranean, 1976

    Was this the reason why we set up the Common Market?
  • Mark Tilling, the headteacher of High Tunstall College of Science in Hartlepool, with some of the free beds

    UK schools
    The headteacher trying to find beds for 10,000 sleep-deprived pupils

  • A Portuguese man-of-war

    Environment
    Neuston, we have a problem: why do we know so little about the creatures floating on the ocean surface?

  • Netherlands
    ‘It’s not beautiful, but you can still eat it’: climate crisis leads to more wonky vegetables

  • AI
    Scientist Ray Kurzweil: ‘We are going to expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045’

  • Art
    Long ignored, at last the surrealist art of Leonora Carrington is getting the attention it’s due

  • Self and wellbeing
    ‘Clearly, I have no rizz’: can a 60-year-old misanthrope polish up his pulling power?

  • Germany
    ‘Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungs-aufgabenübertragungsgesetz’: how viral tongue-twisters lightened up German language

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    Steve Bannon, curing insomnia, and the dressing-gown DJ

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  • Police officers and security personnel take positions outside the Kenyan parliament during a nationwide protest against the finance bill

    Top shots
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

    War in Gaza, a failed coup in Bolivia, protests in Nairobi and Taylor Swift at Wembley: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

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