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Wednesday24 April 2024
  • Nick Kaldas is the chief commissioner in the defence and veterans suicide royal commission. Concord, SYDNEY, NSW, AUSTRALIA. 24/04/2024

    Defence suicide
    ADF should formally honour personnel who lose lives away from battlefield, royal commission chief says

    Nick Kaldas believes there is merit in recognising the service of those who ‘have not necessarily fought in a war but have suffered grievously in some other way’
  • A man looks at a memorial wall in memory of ANZACs soldiers (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) who died during and after the Gallipoli campaign in the World War I at the Lone Pine in Gallipoli peninsula, Canakkale, Turkey, Sunday, April 23, 2023. The Gallipoli Campaign of 1915 by Allied forces aimed to take control of the peninsula to weaken the Ottoman Empire. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

    On Anzac Day you’ll hear stories of courage and mateship. It’s a way to rationalise war

    Paul Daley
  • The Australian Border Force logo

    Exclusive
    Damning report alleges sexual discrimination and harassment by ABF officers

    Human rights commission finds ‘potentially unlawful conduct or inappropriate behaviour’ towards women is rife in Australian Border Force
    • Michael McCormack and the giant chiko roll made by Chris Roe

      The Chiko Roll wars
      How a giant tribute reignited a decades-long origin feud

    • ‘Anti-democratic’
      Labor minister warns Facebook against removal of news content

    • Iran
      Women violently dragged from streets by police amid hijab crackdown

    • Donald Trump
      Ex-resident to receive $1.2bn bonus for Trump Media stock performance

    • Rebel Wilson
      Memoir to be published in UK with Sacha Baron Cohen passages redacted

    • Climate crisis
      Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution

    • Bruce Lehrmann’s trial
      AFP reviewing whether police leaked material from case

    • Gustav Klimt
      Lost painting sells for €30m at auction in Vienna

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Spotlight

  • Topview of a selection of baked biscuits

    The ‘magic’ ingredient
    My search for the perfect Anzac biscuit recipe

    Over a frenzied weekend, Kate Waldegrave baked seven Anzac biscuit recipes to arrive at one crunchy, lacy and buttery outcome
  • Liam Pieper’s Appreciation and Bri Lee’s The Work

    Critics, cancellation and cleanskin wine
    The Australian novels satirising the art world

  • Elon Musk

    Full Story
    Is Elon Musk above Australian law?

    Reporter Josh Taylor tells Jane Lee how the stoush between Elon Musk’s X and Australia started, and if it’s possible to stop the spread of violent material and misinformation online
  • Comedian Urooj Ashfaq

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

    The standup comedian shares what makes her laugh online, including Gino D’Acampo getting mad, the Lonely Island and a scared man paragliding
    • You lookin’ at me? … Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

      The world’s most disappointing masterpiece
      Why does the Mona Lisa leave so many people underwhelmed?

    • Three people on horseback and a dog, in the ocean in shallow water. Still from the Guardian documentary 'Pressure and Release', directed by Pete Ward.

      Horses are medicine – they’re helping give young Aboriginal people the love and support they need

      Juli Coffin
    • Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine in The Idea of You.

      ‘The writer of Fifty Shades gave me tips’ …
      Robinne Lee on her scorching bonkbuster The Idea of You

    • VoyagerRepairedpxiie

      First Dog on the Moon
      Last year Voyager 1 started sending ‘gibberish code’. It was broken! In space!

Sport

  • Asian Champions League - Semi Final - Second Leg - Yokohama F Marinos v Ulsan Hyundai<br>Soccer Football - Asian Champions League - Semi Final - Second Leg - Yokohama F Marinos v Ulsan Hyundai - Nissan Stadium, Yokohama, Japan - April 24, 2024 Yokohama F Marinos coach Harry Kewell during the match REUTERS/Issei Kato

    Asian Champions League
    Harry Kewell’s Yokohama defy the odds to reach final

    Socceroo great sees 10-man team beat South Korea’s Ulsan as shootout ensures showdown with UAE’s Al-Ain
  • Liverpool’s Alisson fouls Everton’s Dominic Calvert-Lewin to concede a penalty, which was later disallowed by VAR for offside in the build up.

    Live
    Everton v Liverpool: Premier League

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Opinion

  • Naomi Klein

    We need an exodus from Zionism

    Naomi Klein
  • ‘Each day, in a Manhattan courtroom, Trump is finding out that there’s a limit.’

    Trump’s hush-money case might finally show him what accountability feels like

    Margaret Sullivan
    A conviction would prove, once and for all, that Trump is not the normal politician that many in the media act like he is
    • The Brics summit in Johannesburg on 23 August 2023, L to R: Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, China’s president Xi Jinping, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, Indian PM Narendra Modi and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.

      The Guardian view
      Globalisation’s discontent: it’s not right for poor countries to fund the rich

    • John Crace

      UK politics sketch
      Down, down, deeper and Dowden: how can Rishi’s stand-in be so useless?

      John Crace
    • members of the royal family on the balcony at Buckingham palace

      King Charles looked for heroes to honour – and picked William, Kate and Camilla. Laugh? Cry? You choose

      Norman Baker
    • Adrian Chiles

      Everyone laughed at Hitler in the 1920s. A century on, are we making the same mistake?

      Adrian Chiles

Lifestyle

  • Red wine being poured from a cask into a wine glass

    Australian cask wine taste test
    $14 for two litres of merlot is the best-value drop

    Sommelier Samantha Payne swills her way through nine glasses of red ‘chateau cardboard’, and uncovers aromas of ‘the Gold Coast in the 80s’ and ‘overcooked rhubarb’
  • Silvia Rothlisberger sitting on her van on the roadside in New Zealand

    A moment that changed me
    Joyriders destroyed my van in New Zealand – which led to a lovely life in London

  • Adrian Chiles

    I worry that hugging people could come across as creepy. So, from now on, all you’re getting is a handshake

    Adrian Chiles
  • ‘What could be a more fitting symbol of British suburbia?’ … photographer Gareth Gardner was transfixed by this hedge in Cheshire.

    ‘This one’s like a castle!’
    The hunt for the world’s wildest, daftest and most beautiful hedges

  • Older person playing Sudoku or similar puzzle game

    Not a 'normal part of ageing'
    One in five Australians misunderstand dementia

  • Felicity Cloake's huevos rancheros.

    Felicity Cloake’s masterclass
    How to make the perfect huevos rancheros – recipe

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Culture

  • Women's prize for fiction shortlist 2024.

    Kate Grenville
    Australian author shortlisted for Women’s prize for fiction

  • Megan Thee Stallion pictured in 2022.

    Megan Thee Stallion
    Rapper accused of ‘abusive work environment’ including sexual harassment

    Former employee Emilio Garcia alleges chart-topping rapper had sex in front of him in a moving car, and made abusive comments and employment law violations
  • Episode 1. Michael Douglas in "Franklin," premiering 12 April 2024 on Apple TV+.

    ‘We were going down fast’
    How Benjamin Franklin saved America

    Apple’s new drama series Franklin, starring Michael Douglas as the founding father, recalls a vital time in US history as he travelled abroad for help
  • Children playing the OG Game Boy in 1989.

    Pushing Buttons
    Readers’ memories of the game-changing Game Boy at 35

  • (from left)( Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller and Penelope Cruz in Zoolander 2.

    Ben Stiller
    I was blindsided by Zoolander 2 flopping

  • Eddie Murphy was not on set when the accident occurred.

    Eddie Murphy
    Multiple crew members hospitalised after accident on set of film

  • Alice Cooper and guitarists

    ‘Absolute joke’
    Customers’ personal data exposed amid Pandemonium Rocks festival refund stoush

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Across the country

  • Bruce Lehrmann leaves the federal court in Sydney

    Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial
    Why legal costs could run to $10m

    How does a 24-day civil trial end up costing so much, and who gets the money?
    • Former teacher Gaye Grant

      Sydney
      Convicted paedophile teacher appeals to overturn conviction on basis of her gender

    • Cobram death
      Man charged after woman’s body found in Victoria

    • Queensland
      The state library launched an AI war veteran chatbot. Pranksters immediately tried to break it

    • ‘Abysmal lack of action’
      Hecs/Help debt to rise by 4.8% in June as indexation lifts average loan by more than $1,200

    • Captain Cook
      Spears taken at Kamay/Botany Bay returned to traditional owners after more than 250 years

    • Road safety
      Road deaths jump by 8.2% as motorist group calls for transparency on safety data

    • Economy
      Inflation rate slows less than expected to 3.6%, dimming hopes of interest rate relief

The rural network

  • Man standing holding bee hive frame

    Biosecurity levy
    Primary producers say they ‘can’t afford’ to pay proposed measure

  • Gabrielle Chan

    If Australia has reached ‘peak milk’, what does that mean for our food security?

    Gabrielle Chan
  • A tree strewn with bras in an outback setting

    ‘An unexplained phenomenon’
    The Australian obsession for putting stuff in trees

  • Man holds broom in factory

    The last straw
    The Snowy Mountains broom-makers keeping a tradition alive

Around the world

  • Two horses bolt through the streets of London near Aldwych.

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    UK
    Four taken to hospital after military horses break loose in central London

  • MEP releases dove

    ‘Can you catch it as well?’
    Bird stunt causes flap in European parliament

    • Food safety
      Cakes and drinks sweetener neotame can damage gut wall, scientists find

    • Alexei Navalny
      Russian priest who led memorial services is demoted

    • Portugal
      We need to ‘pay the costs’ of slavery and colonialism, says president

    • Joe Biden
      president signs $95bn foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan

    • ‘Cliched’
      Turkish-Germans react as president brings kebab on Istanbul trip

    • European Union
      MEPs vote to leave treaty used by investors to sue over climate policies

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  • On the way to Santa Paula … the road trip from LA in an old Merc.

    Adali Schell’s best shot
    The photography studio with four wheels and a sunroof

    ‘The sun trickled in just as we were coming down the mountain. When I looked back at Victoria and Keni, the wind was rustling their clothes and hair. I was screaming because it was so beautiful!’
  • Hampshire, UK.

    Readers' best photographs
    A littler splash and a Cuban mystery

  • Solar panel farm at sunrise in rural Australia.

    Essential report podcast
    Is Labor being honest about how hard the energy transition will be?

  • Cool waves … Little West 12th August 28 2023 by Pelle Cass

    Subways, sphinxes and the Stones
    Highlights from NYC’s Photography Show

  • Martin Rowson on Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda mission accomplished – cartoon

    UK opinion cartoon
    Martin Rowson on Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda mission accomplished

  • woman with pink hair on a screen

    ‘Miss AI’ is billed as a leap forward – but feels like a monumental step backwards

    Arwa Mahdawi
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  • Mondragon Corporation<br>Inside Fagor Arrasate factory, in Mondragon, Spain.

    ‘In the US they think we’re communists!’
    The 70,000 workers showing the world another way to earn a living

    The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the globe’s largest industrial co-operative, with workers paying for the right to share in its profits – and its losses. In return for giving more to their employer, they expect more back
  • Dozens of tents and young protesters wearing keffiyeh, with a rainbow Pride flag in the foreground.

    US protests
    How divestment became a ‘clarion call’ for demonstrators

  • A silver logo on the bonnet of a black Tesla in Los Angeles, California

    Explainer
    How soon can Tesla get its more affordable car to the market?

  • Italy
    Venice access fee: what is it and how much does it cost?

  • ‘99-year’ sentence
    Tommy Nicol was kind and friendly – a beloved brother. Why did he die in a UK prison?

  • ‘People would never forget these shoes’
    The fight to preserve soles of Stutthof Nazi camp

  • Plant apocalypse
    How new diseases are destroying Europe's trees and crops

  • ‘An enigma’
    Scientists finally learn what giant prehistoric shark looked like

  • Glitter: The Popstar Paedophile review
    A most sickening nostalgia trip

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  • Two military horses bolt through the streets near Aldwych in London, UK, after escaping during morning exercise

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    A kite festival and horses bolt in London

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