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Wednesday29 May 2024
  • David Pocock

    Israel-Gaza war
    Labor backs ICC’s role in international law as other MPs condemn ‘war’ on body

    Australia ‘must continue to protect and defend the ICC’s independence and rebuff any attempts to politicise its actions,’ says David Pocock
  • AUSTRALIA-BUSINESS-QANTAS<br>A Virgin Airways plane travels down the runway as a QantasLink Dash 8-400 series plane takes off at Sydney's Kingsford Smith international airport on November 3, 2023. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP) (Photo by DAVID GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)

    Virgin Australia
    Airline is rostering pilots ‘closer to the limit’ of fatigue, watchdog says

  • Donald Trump in the courtroom on Wednesday.

    Trump hush-money trial: jury begins deliberations on 34 counts of falsifying business records – as it happened

    Jurors weigh case after judge Juan Merchan finished instructing them on the law
    • Zavier Wileman against a red backdrop

      Feeling like an ‘oddity’, forced to come out
      How healthcare still fails to meet queer needs

    • Soil contamination
      Leading labs retested landscape products for waste companies after findings

    • ‘I felt guilty’
      Women reveal harrowing details to groundbreaking NSW birth trauma inquiry

    • Delhi
      Temperature hits 50.5C as India’s capital records hottest day

    • Israel-Gaza war
      Dua Lipa denounces ‘Israeli genocide’ in Instagram post

    • 'Common sense first'
      Labor reverses course on ministerial ruling that saw criminals given visas

    • Victoria
      Children as young as 12 recruited to steal $2m worth of cash and cigarettes for crime network, police say

    • Singapore Airlines
      London to Singapore flight dropped 54 metres in seconds, flight data shows

News extra

  • Chart showing the difference between year-to-date net overseas migration (NOM) and the pre-Covid average of NOM (223,000)

    The Crunch
    Migration has been blamed for the housing crisis, but it’s not that simple

  • Greg Jericho

    ‘Sticky’ inflation is not falling – but it’s not rising, either. Why should that mean another RBA rate hike?

    Greg Jericho
  • A dog hiding its face

    ‘Seeing her hurt was more than I could bear’
    The family pets left in limbo amid domestic violence crisis

    Emergency accommodation helps those fleeing violence – but few will accept animals, leaving them at risk of abuse

Spotlight

  • Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall in Colin from Accounts: ‘Their squabbling has an almost volcanic quality.’

    Colin from Accounts season two review
    Still delightfully catty

    After the first season of Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall’s comedy took off, the lovebirds return to win back their hapless pooch. It’s sizzling TV
  • Burlesque dance instructor Evana De Lune gives a lesson to students at Tropical Soul Dance, Annandale, Sydney, Australia, 26 May 2024.

    My first time at a burlesque class
    'Could I thrust with a force that could kill a man?’

  • Peter is suffering mortgage stress and is thinking of selling his Epping apartment after buying two years ago

    Full Story
    Why a ‘good job’ doesn’t guarantee a home any more

    Senior business reporter Jonathan Barrett tells Jane Lee about the drastic measures some Australians are taking to make ends meet
  • Tseba

    Tseba
    The 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

    The musician and DJ spends his time either scrolling or laughing at drunk patrons. Both are well-represented in his list
    • Ed Davey wearing lifejacket and holding a long paddle looks at camera as he 'falls' off a paddleboard on water

      Lib Dems are go! And they’ve already done the joke

      Marina Hyde
    • Sting Press publicity film still supplied by PR

      Sting review
      Low-budget alien-spider horror offers laughs and out-of-your-skin shocks

    • Balloons hang on electric wires as soldiers stand guard

      From Scythia to South Korea
      A potted history of poo in warfare

    • Portrait with collar turned up, scarf

      From Sherlock to Nathan Barley
      Benedict Cumberbatch’s best ever TV roles

Sport

  • Iga Swiatek plays a forehand

    Live
    French Open 2024: Iga Swiatek v Naomi Osaka, Alcaraz advances – live

    Join our writers for live second-round updates from Paris with Iga Swiatek taking on Naomi Osaka in the day’s headline match
  • Mary Fowler attacks the ball during a Matildas training session at Coopers Stadium

    Wildcard and wingers
    Matildas’ Olympic selection questions to answer against China

  • Dustin Martin carries the ball for Richmond against Essendon

    Martin holds up his end of the bargain as AFL’s silent superstar

    Jonathan Horn
  • Nestory Irankunda in action for the A-League Men All Stars against Newcastle United

    ‘Dream will be fulfilled’
    Irankunda named in Socceroos squad for World Cup qualifiers

    • Karsten Warholm

      Paris Olympics
      Karsten Warholm: ‘I’m the world’s biggest hypocrite over super spikes’

    • A player from Long Island United Cricket Club in action at Eisenhower Park in New York.

      ‘Land of opportunity’: USA is cricket’s bold new frontier once again

      Andy Bull
    • Kate Cross speeds in for a delivery.

      Live
      England set Pakistan target of 303 to win third women’s cricket ODI – live

    • Thibaut Courtois

      ‘The Wall is back’
      How Madrid's Courtois won Champions League final fitness race

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Opinion

  • Ormond College at the University of Melbourne

    Biographers, resharpen your pencils! The University of Melbourne’s shameful history of racism awaits

    Paul Daley
  • Beth Riding

    Austria lowered the voting age for young people like me, and transformed politics. The UK should do the same

    Beth Riding
    • Simon Tisdall

      By attacking and undermining the ICC, Israel has proved again it is a state gone rogue

      Simon Tisdall
    • Katherine Butler

      Ireland has dared to recognise Palestine. Will it dare to do the right thing at home too?

      Katherine Butler
    • Thomas Pullin 180930 Opinion WEB

      A great Tory reckoning is coming after the UK election – but the party won’t split along the lines you’d expect

      Henry Hill
    • The hand of a female TV reporter holding a microphone

      It’s time for the Australian Human Rights Commission to stand up for the women of commercial TV

      Josh Bornstein

Lifestyle

  • Top view of a scientific looking contraption that holds a container of ground coffee beans

    ‘Like drinking a music festival’
    This is ultrasonic coffee – but does it taste any good?

    Australian scientists have developed a method of brewing coffee by blasting ground beans with sound waves – and it produces a powerful cup
  • Sweating man with sweat band round his head.

    Sweat wisely!
    22 etiquette rules for exercise – from swimming lanes to selfies

  • Lily Allen and David Harbour at the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

    Should we follow Lily Allen – and let our partner control our smartphone?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Michelle Spencer in a padded jacket, hat and scarf in the snow in Alberta, Canada

    A moment that changed me
    I cured my 3am terrors with the help of a therapist – and a moose

  • Felicity Cloake’s Vietnamese summer rolls.

    Felicity Cloake’s Masterclass
    How to make Vietnamese summer rolls

  • Exterior view of The Farmers pub in Ulverston, UK, on a sunny day with people sitting outside on the pub terrace.

    How to escape Cumbria’s twee side
    An alternative guide to the Lake District

Culture

  • Taylor Swift performing in Lisbon, 24 May.

    ‘I’m confident we will be adequately bejewelled’
    Readers on how they’re preparing for Taylor Swift’s Eras tour

  • Dancing for the Devil.

    Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult review
    A horribly mesmerising look at an invite-only church

    Is it a religious organisation? A management company for dancers? A brainwashing sect? This fascinating, unusually sensitive Netflix documentary looks at a dark, sad tale
  • Donald Rodney Doublethink 1992 Trophies, engraved plaques Installation view at Spike Island, Bristol. Work courtesy The Donald Rodney Estate.

    Donald Rodney review
    The young dying artist who struck at Britain’s sick, racist heart

    As sickle cell anaemia attacked his body, the artist made political drawings on X-rays and used his own skin for sculpture
  • Margaret Thatcher with Ronald Reagan in 1981.

    Neoliberalism’s ascent
    The Invisible Doctrine by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison review

  • man in a baseball cap and a pale grey jacket

    Ron Howard on Jim Henson
    You could see there was nothing to hide

  • Erling Haaland and others in EA Sports FC 24.

    Pushing Buttons
    If Fifa is about to make an EA Sports FC competitor, that’s great news for gamers

  • Tracey Emin, June 2023, South of France Studio, taken by TE creative director Harry Weller.

    The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin
    I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA

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Across the country

  • A Channel Nine logo is seen at their offices in Melbourne

    Channel Nine
    Predatory behaviour was ‘known and tolerated’ at broadcaster, staff claim

    Review after allegations of inappropriate behaviour at network could lead to change but ‘we don’t have much faith’, one employee says
  • Michael Outram

    NZYQ fallout
    Two murderers and 26 sex offenders released under ruling not electronically monitored

  • James Waghorne, Ross Jones and Marcia Langton at the University of Melbourne

    ‘Denying history is simply lying’
    How the University of Melbourne honoured racists, thieves and body snatchers

  • Laura Tingle

    ABC
    Management counsels Laura Tingle over ‘racist country’ comments but journalist stands by remarks

    • News Corp Australia
      Editor-in-chief of news.com.au among casualties in restructure

    • ‘In-house’ consultancy
      NSW inquiry urges government to ditch big four firms for public servants

    • Energy
      CSIRO stands by nuclear power costings that contradict Coalition claims

    • Samantha Murphy
      ‘Items of interest’ found in new search for Ballarat woman months after she disappeared

    • Housing
      NSW government reveals where 377,000 new homes will be built in Sydney and regional areas by 2029

    • Explainer
      Criminals facing deportation from Australia have had their visas restored. How did this happen and who is to blame?

The rural network

  • Brent Finlay in farmer's gear silhouetted against a bright blue sky

    ‘Renewable farmers’
    In the largest windfarm in the southern hemisphere, landowners look to the future

  • Hannah Maalste at the Broken Hills university study hub

    Home alone with bad internet
    Why online university students in regional Australia are turning to study hubs

  • A group of brown hens eat from a chicken feeder

    Bird flu
    Virus detected at second Victorian farm as separate outbreak found in Western Australia

  • A line of people walk along the edge of a filed thickly planted with sunflowers. People can be seen among the flowers taking pictures.

    Nature’s ghosts
    How reviving medieval farming offers wildlife an unexpected haven

Around the world

  • Dozens of members of the International Brigades in Spain

    Spain
    New research raises hopes of exhuming foreign civil war dead

  • ship wreck

    Titanic
    Ohio real estate tycoon plans to take new submersible to wreck

    • Renewable energy
      Increasing use in US yields billions of dollars of benefits

    • Russia-Ukraine war
      Macron, Scholz agree Kyiv should use allies’ weapons against launchers in Russia

    • Iceland
      Fresh volcanic eruption triggers evacuation in south-west

    • Harvey Weinstein
      Disgraced mogul to attend hearing at same courthouse as Trump’s trial

    • UK
      Lucy Letby inquiry should be heard in public, judge rules

    • Brussels
      Belgian police search EU parliament office over Russian interference

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  • Peter is suffering mortgage stress and is thinking of selling his Epping apartment after buying two years ago

    Full Story
    Why a ‘good job’ doesn’t guarantee a home any more

    Senior business reporter Jonathan Barrett tells Jane Lee about the drastic measures some Australians are taking to make ends meet
  • image shows grid of cocktails, pills and mushrooms, with hands holding mushrooms, pills, a lighter and a rolled up dollar bill

    The high road
    Americans have demonised drugs for decades. Now they’re doing them every day

  • TingleRacismpxiie

    First Dog on the Moon
    Good evening Australia, tonight I’m in a right tizzy about … being accused of racism!

  • A person in a red hat stands in a voting booth

    South Africa
    Nation goes to the polls – in pictures

  • ‘Almost a mugshot’ … Billy by Jack Pierson, taken in 2020.

    ‘Billy does an act called Scream Along With Billy’
    Jack Pierson’s best photograph

  • Melancholy yet goofy … Hauntii.

    Hauntii review
    A ghost searches for understanding in the afterlife in this imaginative debut

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  • Ballet dancers Katherine Sonnekus, Belle Urwin, and Sharni Spencer hold a barre and dance in The Australian Ballet's performance of Études

    The Australian Ballet presents an unmissable showcase of technique and creativity in the double bill Études / Circle Electric

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  • Composite design image of Benjamin Netanyahu and Karim Khan surrounded by CCTV cameras

    Spying, hacking and intimidation
    Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed

    Exclusive: Investigation reveals how intelligence agencies tried to derail war crimes prosecution, with Netanyahu ‘obsessed’ with intercepts
  • Keynote Speakers During Canva Create<br>The Canva Create event in Inglewood, California, US, on Thursday, May 23, 2024. Canvas platform has gained popularity among smaller companies and Gen Zs since its inception in 2013, and more recently sought to attract larger enterprise customers. Photographer: Alisha Jucevic/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    ‘A fine line between humor and flopping’
    Tech summit’s rap battle is the height of corporate cringe

  • Unknown assailants killed Celaya's mayor candidate Gisela Gaytan, in San Miguel Octopan<br>A forensic technician works at a scene where Celaya's mayor candidate for the ruling party Morena, Bertha Gisela Gaytan, was killed by unknown assailants during a campaign rally, in San Miguel Octopan, Guanajuato state, Mexico, April 1, 2024. REUTERS/Juan Moreno

    ‘It’s become a battleground’
    Mexico’s local candidates face deadly violence

  • Europe’s big summer: how the Guardian is gearing up for a seismic season across the continent

    Jon Henley

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    The season the New York Yankees hit a chaotic low

  • ‘No one needs their name near this’
    The secret plot by touts to undermine Labour’s reforms

  • My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom review
    An astonishing testament to comedy’s healing power

  • Nikki Haley
    Republican writes ‘finish them’ on IDF artillery shells during Israel visit

  • ‘A coward’s violence’
    Robert De Niro trolls Trump outside hush-money trial

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