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Biden jokes with Albanese at Tokyo summit; more than 1m people cast informal votes
Joe Biden has joked with Anthony Albanese about whether the prime minister would fall asleep during the Quad summit in Tokyo after attending the meeting directly after an election.
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Richard Marles
Albanese government turns around its first asylum seeker boat
Border Force has safely returned an asylum seeker vessel to Sri Lanka as an investigation is ordered into the disclosure of its arrival on election day.
Tight race in Deakin, 55 votes separate knife-edge seat
Liberal MP Michael Sukkar is projected to cling onto his outer-suburban seat of Deakin as postal votes continue to be counted.
Labor promised a lot during the election. This is what you should expect to see
Labor made nearly $19 billion in election promises on its path to victory. Here’s everything we know about their major policies, and what you can expect from them.
Opinion
Inside China
There’s a growing sense of panic in China
China’s economy is shuddering as its harsh COVID policies continue to cause widespread financial pain despite escalating efforts to mitigate the damage.
Stephen Bartholomeusz
Senior business columnist
The bride wore Dolce: Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker's Italian wedding
Inside the lavish wedding of Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker.
Think adult cartoons are silly? Let me change your mind
The list of television comedies that have dealt with the realities of the working class is too short, and this one doesn’t pull punches.
‘Extraordinary gift’: After three decades, Lin Onus’ art tram rides again
Thirty years after it first rattled along Melbourne’s streets, the distinctive Indigenous art tram has been reimagined by the son of the Yorta Yorta artist who painted the original design.
Analysis
China relations
Strategic confusion: Biden’s fifth Taiwan gaffe baits Beijing, rattles White House
The White House is again walking back the president’s gung-ho remarks about defending Taiwan from China. Is Biden confused or just indiscreet?
Facebook’s Australian tax bill just $24 million as profits double
Facebook Australia funnelled nearly $1 billion in local advertising revenue to an international subsidiary.
Crypto industry urges Labor to stay the course on sweeping reforms
Members of Australia’s cryptocurrency industry want the Albanese government to stay the course on crypto regulation.
Riding the world’s biggest waves, without a surfboard
Kelly Slater described Kalani Lattanzi’s performance of bodysurfing a notorious break as “one of the all-time great rides in the surf world”.
Safety fears: School defies council demand to open gates to public
Yarra City Council has ordered a private school to permanently open its front gates to the public in a move the school claims will put children at risk.
Police hope $1m reward will crack 1991 murder of St Kilda sex worker
Witnesses told police they saw a woman’s legs protruding from a van’s passenger door on the night Amanda Byrnes was last seen.
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Fire
Arson squad probes fire that gutted former city strip club
Window panes smashed as flames issued from the former Goldfingers club at the corner of King and Lonsdale streets.
Australia votes 2022
Albanese seeks briefing on COVID-19 ‘step-up’ as experts push for fourth jab
The new PM has directed the Health Department to prepare a briefing on COVID-19 as one of his first agenda items after returning from Japan.
Nationals MP lashes the Victorian Liberals as an ‘election-losing machine’
Outspoken Nationals MP Darren Chester has slammed the state Liberal Party after three Coalition seats in country Victoria went from safe to marginal.
Victoria
Parts of Northcote public golf course set aside for community in ‘win-win’
The City of Darebin will also seek to restrict golfers from accessing the greens after 3pm as it renegotiates a golf course management contract.
Law firm considers class action against Victoria’s triple-0 authority
Slater and Gordon says it is already acting for multiple clients, including children, who have suffered significant injuries following problems with call handling at the Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority.
Mourners in purple remember ‘beautiful soul’ who suffered incomprehensible loss
Cindy Gambino-Moules, whose three sons were murdered by their father when he drove them into a dam, has been farewelled at a funeral in Colac.
Lockdowns are over but anxiety lingers as more students refuse school
The director of the Bayside School Refusal Clinic says he has seen a four-fold increase in children needing support. They start their therapy with a short, slow walk.
Footy fan bashed with didgeridoo outside Dreamtime at the ’G
Detectives are working to identify the men who bashed a football supporter with a didgeridoo outside Saturday night’s match.
AFL 2022
Drug abuse a ‘massive issue’ among AFL players: Riewoldt
St Kilda great Nick Riewoldt says drugs are a “massive” issue for former and current players, and has taken aim at the players’ association for its handling of his former teammate, Sam Fisher.
AFL crowds slump to lowest levels in 26 years, excluding COVID seasons
While it would be unrealistic to expect attendances to bounce back to pre-pandemic levels, crowds in 2022 are, on average, at their lowest since 1996.
Politics
Chinese Premier congratulates Albanese, hopes for ‘sound and stable’ relations
The move ends a diplomatic freeze of more than two years in which Beijing refused to engage with Canberra at the ministerial or prime ministerial level.
Business
‘Now is the right time’: Qantas buys majority stake in TripADeal
Qantas has snapped up a 51 per cent stake in Byron Bay-founded travel site TripADeal in a move that will let customers book packages using their frequent flyer points.
World
Putin ‘survived assassination attempt’ soon after Ukraine invasion
Major General Kyrylo Budanov, the head of military intelligence, said the Russian authorities foiled the attack on the president two months earlier.
Opinion
Climate action is the undisputed winner of the federal election
Tim Flannery
Chief councillor of the Climate Council
Why Bridget Archer is the jewel in the Libs’ tarnished crown
Jenna Price
Columnist and academic
Climate shift: Albanese agenda warms bilateral relationship
Peter Hartcher
Political and international editor
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Property
Albanese’s property story goes from one form of public housing to another
In 1927, two public housing projects were completed that were to play a significant role in the life of Australia’s prime minister elect.
Modern Carlton North home sells for $1.615m in election day auction
Bidders were up early to vote, then fought it out for the keys to the townhouse, leaving the vendor thrilled with the result despite the slowing property market.
Lifestyle
The bride wore Dolce: Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker's Italian wedding
Inside the lavish wedding of Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker.
Culture
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Arts
Great drama from climate catastrophe? Or is it too hard?
Cli-fi – climate fiction – is a growing category, with two new stage shows on this week. But can coherent drama come from the big issue of our age?
Sport
Analysis
AFL 2022
The reborn Blue playing himself into a new contract
From shaping as a key plank to almost walking the plank, Lochie O’Brien appears to have turned his career around, and is eying a contract extension.
‘Not here to put socks on centipedes’: This Aussie is seven seconds off Giro lead
Jai Hindley led the Giro going into the final stage in 2020, but fell short on the last day. This year, he’s just seven seconds off first place heading into the final week, and “100 per cent here to win”.
AFL, players reviewing illicit drugs policy
AFL Players Association Paul Marsh has responded to claims by St Kilda great Nick Riewoldt, after former Saint Sam Fisher was charged with drug trafficking.
Riding the world’s biggest waves, without a surfboard
Kelly Slater described Kalani Lattanzi’s performance of bodysurfing a notorious break as “one of the all-time great rides in the surf world”.
AFL crowds slump to lowest levels in 26 years, excluding COVID seasons
While it would be unrealistic to expect attendances to bounce back to pre-pandemic levels, crowds in 2022 are, on average, at their lowest since 1996, when fewer than 30,000 people per match attended the footy.
‘I don’t care’: Semenya says she offered to show track officials her body
The dual Olympic champion has also accused the world athletics body of making her take medication that “tortured” her and made her fear she was going to have a heart attack.
‘More like an exhibition’: Osaka out of French Open, may skip Wimbledon
Naomi Osaka is out of Roland Garros and Wimbledon is up in the air after she said the decision to strip the tournament of rankings points would likely affect her motivation.
Have Your Say
Wimbledon ban ‘a damaging precedent’? Tell that to the people of Mariupol
By removing rankings points from Wimbledon, the ATP and the WTA are cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
Greg Baum
Sports columnist
