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Friday15 March 2024
  • A chemist

    Pharmacies
    More stores open across Australia despite guild’s dire forecasts on 60-day prescriptions

    Lobby group, which is meeting on the Gold Coast with Peter Dutton giving the keynote address, warned in 2023 that hundreds of pharmacies would close
  • Craig Wright in suit arriving at court

    Craig Wright
    Australian computer scientist is not bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, UK high court rules

  • Coles store

    Coles
    Pay offer labelled ‘insulting’ as staff say they can’t afford to shop at own workplace

    One worker says she feels ‘disrespected’ by proposed agreement, which includes in-store gift cards if staff vote to accept
    • Footage released by the Russian defence ministry shows what it says is a destroyed tank used by pro-Ukrainian fighters, at the Russian-Ukrainian border.

      Ukraine war
      Pro-Ukraine exiled Russian fighters launch attack into southern Russia

    • SpaceX
      Starship destroyed on return to Earth at end of third test flight

    • Israel-Gaza war
      Schumer calls Netanyahu obstacle to peace and urges new Israeli elections

    • Youth detention
      Concerns raised over solitary confinement in Queensland after deaths of two First Nations boys

    • Analysis
      Labor vulnerable on two fronts as Greens target Brisbane’s commuter belt

    • Serco
      Secret rating system for immigration detainees must be scrapped, say Greens

    • Exclusive
      Influential NSW independent speaks out against laws that make it harder for young people to get bail

    • Bali
      Australian woman among two tourists killed in landslide that swept away villa

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Spotlight

  • Ben Feldman as Andy in Population 11

    Population 11 review
    A foreigner in a small Australian town? Haven’t seen that one before …

    This new Stan comedy is a letdown, delaying reveals for mysteries and ambiguities that weren’t particularly interesting to begin with

  • Let them eat snake
    Why python meat could soon be on the menu

  • Virginia-class USS North Carolina docked at the HMAS Stirling port in Rockingham near Perth, August 2023.

    Full Story podcast
    Newsroom edition – The future of Australia’s alliance with the US

    Jane Lee talks with head of newsroom Mike Ticher and national news editor Patrick Keneally about the future of Australia’s alliance with the US
  • William Powell Frith, For Better For Worse

    Relationships
    Everyone is starting to guess how wealthy my fiance is. How do I stop this affecting my friendships?

    There are many options for handling personal questions, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith, but no matter what you say people will still be curious
    • Two way composite for book review. The Cancer Finishing School by Peter Goldsworthy Memoir, is out through Penguin.

      The Cancer Finishing School by Peter Goldsworthy review
      A personal story told with remarkable objectivity

    • Illustration of lungs

      Avoid mould and ride a bike
      Twenty expert tips on how to look after your lungs for life

    • Rupi Kaur

      Whether voice of a generation or queen of cringe, Rupi Kaur was a gateway to the world of poetry

      Miski Omar
    • Puyr Tembé with her team of forest guardians.

      ‘A struggle for us all’
      New film reveals light and shade of fight for Amazon

Sport

  • Tom de Koning of Carlton celebrates

    AFL
    Carlton hang on in MCG thriller against brave Richmond

    Carlton held off a brave Richmond to win an MCG thriller by five points, six days after storming home to pip the Brisbane Lions
  • Billy Guyton runs with the ball

    Rugby union
    First professional player confirmed to have died with CTE

  • Scotland players in training

    Six Nations
    Scotland will have to ‘do something special’ to beat Ireland, says Townsend

    The coach had tough task as Ireland won the last nine successive ties while Warren Gatland said he ‘loves’ the pressure of avoiding the wooden spoon with Wales
  • Liverpool's Darwin Nunez and Sparta's Martin Vitik

    Live
    West Ham v Freiburg, Rangers v Benfica: Europa League last 16, second legs

    Minute-by-minute report: Join our writers for updates from the last-16 second legs around Europe
    • Cartoon panel depicting seagulls in a stadium, a goalkeeper missing a save and Marko Rudan with his hand on his face in despair

      David Squires on …
      Western Sydney Wanderers’ seven stages of grief

    • Liam Picken is attended to on the ground after being concussed

      Concussion
      AFL faces years of litigation over ‘messy’ lawsuits

    • The Australian track cycling team at the 2020 Olympics

      Wheelie expensive
      Australian track cycling team wheels out $100,000 bike

    • The A-League’s newest club Auckland FC' new kit

      ‘Black Knights’
      A-League’s newest club Auckland FC pick Inter-style kits

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Opinion

  • Anti Tory protest in Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom - 13 Mar 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (14387744b) A protester holds a placard referencing Tory donor Frank Hester's recent comments. Anti-Tory activists gathered in Parliament Square for their weekly protest as Rishi Sunak faced Prime Minister's Questions. Anti Tory protest in Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom - 13 Mar 2024

    This is the Tory party now: so devoid of values and leadership it can’t respond to blatantly racist remarks

    Martin Kettle
    Sunak should have immediately returned Frank Hester’s £10m. The PM’s speech about hate suddenly seems a long time ago
  • A prisoner in a cell in Featherstone prison, Wolverhampton

    Britain’s prison system is brutal and broken. Why does reforming it seem so impossible?

    Simon Jenkins
    Prisoners are being released early because jails are overflowing. We know what better policies would look like – but politicians won’t act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
    • Displaced Palestinians line up to receive food aid

      The crisis in Gaza is a diplomatic test for Australia. We must do better as a country

      David Pocock
    • Illustration by Bill Bragg

      This ‘election’ won’t kickstart any change in Russia – but a defeat for Putin in Ukraine can

      Timothy Garton Ash
    • Diane Abbott looks on during PMQs.

      Frank Hester’s ugly words about me are a reminder: all parties, including Labour, must stand against racism

      Diane Abbott
    • Naomi Klein

      The Zone of Interest is about the danger of ignoring atrocities – including in Gaza

      Naomi Klein

Lifestyle

  • Yotam Ottolenghi's grilled carrots with red onion pickle and coriander yogurt

    Autumn recipes
    Nine Yotam Ottolenghi dishes to cook this season

    Twice-cooked carrots, a herby olive pasta and a riff on Persian yoghurt dip – there are many ways to experience the joys of autumn produce
  • Dominic (left) and David

    Dining across the divide
    ‘I think sport is overrated as a force for good’

  • a worker slices tofu at a restaurant

    Well actually
    How do you get enough protein in a climate-friendly way?

  • A dog peeking around a door and looking into the camera

    Take the Thursday quiz
    Brand new animals, awkward moments and dreadful movie awards

  • Simon Usborne plays piano with his son.

    ‘There’s joy I haven’t felt for years!’
    How an app finally got me hooked on the piano

  • Anna and John in the snow in Finland

    How we met
    ‘No decent person turns away a refugee. So when she asked if she could stay, I said yes’

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Culture

  • Throwback style … Morena Baccarin and Pierce Brosnan in Fast Charlie.

    Fast Charlie review
    Pierce Brosnan in 90s-style thriller, complete with exploding doughnut

  • Trent Reznor covered in mud, howling into a mic

    Ranked!
    Sex, drugs and … God? Nine Inch Nails’ greatest songs

    Thirty years on from their masterpiece album The Downward Spiral, we assess the studies of faith, authority and self-loathing from Trent Reznor’s band
  • Jimmy Kimmel on the House voting to ban TikTok: “This is a big deal. This is like iPhone Footloose, and there’s no Kevin Bacon to save us.”

    Late-night US TV roundup
    Jimmy Kimmel on House vote to ban TikTok: ‘This is like iPhone Footloose’

    Late-night hosts discuss bipartisan effort to ban TikTok, Trump’s missing classified documents and 2020 election redux
  • Regina King in an orange dress.

    ‘So angry with God’
    Regina King says she’s ‘a different person’ after son’s suicide

  • Danny Ball and Tom Conroy in Holding the Man

    Holding the Man review
    Tragic love story makes space for queer joy … but bring tissues

  • ‘He got along with people, fabulously, even ones who were said to be difficult’ … Gene Wilder in 1979

    Remembering Gene Wilder
    New documentary sheds light on a comedy titan

  • Sincere commitment … The Trust Fall: Julian Assange

    The Trust Fall: Julian Assange review
    Partisan portrait of WikiLeaks man

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Across the country

  • A pro-Palestine demonstration at State Library Victoria in Melbourne

    State Library Victoria
    Staff accuse management of ‘censorship and discrimination’ over pro-Palestine authors controversy

    Library says decision to defer workshops not based on ‘political beliefs or identity of anyone involved’
  • Australia’s opposition leader Peter Dutton

    Truth in political advertising
    Dutton says laws ‘probably welcome’ but criticises Labor as scare campaign ‘experts’

  • Gina Rinehart

    $840m in support
    Gina Rinehart-backed rare earth miner soars in value after government package announced

  • Independent senator David Pocock

    Offshore gas
    David Pocock fears Labor trying to work around First Nations consultation on projects

    • Fossil fuels
      Shell waters down emissions cut pledge despite crucial climate decade

    • 'Least amount of effort'
      Australia’s best dishwashing liquid is also one of the cheapest, 2024 Choice test finds

    • William Kamm
      NSW cult leader’s wife made overseas calls to recruit member in alleged child-grooming case, court told

    • ‘Highly acrimonious’
      Queensland electoral commission warns council candidates to behave during election campaign

    • Alexander Smirnov
      US firm that paid indicted FBI informant tied to Trump associates, records reveal

    • Housing
      Victoria looks to ditch car park minimums for apartments near public transport

The rural network

  • Fiona and Rohan Morris on their farm in Maryvale, Queensland.

    A ‘better deal’
    Farmers skip the middlemen to sell produce direct to customers

  • A harvester at a vineyard near Griffith, Australia.

    ‘Growers have to be optimists’
    Grape growers cautiously welcome wine tariff decision

  • Cows at Warwick saleyard

    How many cattle are there in Australia?
    We may be out by 10 million

  • A wicketkeeper appeals as a batter grounds her bat

    ‘This feels like home to me’
    How a bush cricket competition is helping women find themselves

Around the world

  • A woman poses for pictures with an art decoration featuring the map of Crimea in the colours of the Russian flag.

    ‘The fight is continuing’
    A decade of Russian rule has not silenced Ukrainian voices in Crimea

    Ten years on from Russia’s annexation, with all-out war making its dominance vulnerable, authorities are increasing a crackdown on pro-Ukrainian voices – while others simply want to live their lives
    • Young people holding up their phones in Accra

      Internet
      Much of west and central Africa offline after undersea cable failures

    • Italy
      Woman, 103, fined for driving with expired licence

    • Canada
      India blocks access to documentary about death of Sikh activist

    • Jamaica
      Musician Vybz Kartel has murder conviction quashed

    • Geoengineering
      Effects must be urgently investigated, experts say

    • Netherlands
      Formation of Dutch government advances as far-right Wilders admits he can’t be PM

    • Space
      SpaceX’s Starship destroyed on return to Earth at end of third test flight

    • Somalia
      Country has 99% of debt cancelled in major boost for fragile recovery

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  • The 2024 US presidential election will be a rematch between Joe Biden (left) and Donald Trump

    Full Story podcast
    The presidential rematch no one wants

    Lauren Gambino tells Nour Haydar how American voters are feeling about the choice that lies ahead
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    Gaza needs aid - and time is running out

  • Daisy May Cooper, host of Educating Daisy.

    Best podcasts of the week
    Can anyone convince Daisy May Cooper to read even a single book?

  • ‘Symmetry and colour at Kings Cross station.’

    Station symmetry and a cheeky cow
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    Hair-plaiting for the Iranian resistance
    Hoda Afshar’s best photograph

  • Automated bathroom in the future.

    Shock of the old
    11 wild views of the future – from winged postmen to self-cleaning homes

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    Five weeks only: The Lehman Trilogy comes to Sydney

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  • Dr Marco Falchieri of the Influenza and Avian Virology team taking samples from a seal on South Georgia

    Bird flu
    Access to Ernest Shackleton’s grave ‘blocked by dead seals’

    The H5N1 virus reached the region late last year and is killing wildlife, with witnesses spotting numerous seal corpses on South Georgia island
  • Tierra Whack holds a stylised mask of herself in front of her face, both wearing white modernist wire-rimmed circular specs with circles where the lenses should be.

    ‘I write about weird stuff, like a party full of giraffes’
    Tierra Whack, America’s most creative rapper

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    ‘I’m not judging you’
    A midwife on what it’s like to witness abortions every day

  • Glastonbury
    Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA to headline 2024 festival

  • A who’s who of Black popular music
    From Nina Simone and Bob Marley to Goldie and Salt-N-Pepa

  • Texas
    Tapeworms found in brain of man who ate undercooked bacon

  • California
    Sheriff releases bodycam video of killing of boy, 15, holding gardening tool

  • ‘Audacious’ scheme
    US rancher used tissue and testicles to breed ‘giant’ sheep to sell for hunting

  • Swept away
    US$500,000 sand dune built to protect homes disappears in days

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  • An artwork by Chavis Mármol of a Tesla 3 car being crushed by a nine-tonne Olmec-inspired head

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    A crushed Tesla and George W Bush’s paintings

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