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‘We’ve got to listen to dead women’: critical part of Queensland’s DV response stops reviewing all recent deaths
Exclusive: Experts raise concern as Queensland’s Domestic and Family Violence Death Review and Advisory Board turns focus to historical, rather than new, data
Police charge 11 protesters after climate flotilla prevents coal ship from entering Newcastle harbour
Thousands of protesters, including Australian Greens leader, gather for annual climate protest in world’s largest coal export port
Anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe claims University of Adelaide gave her immunity from complaints by pro-choice campaigners
The university, which employs Howe as a law professor, states that it ‘considers each matter on its merits’
Fran Lebowitz: ‘Hiking is the most stupid thing I could ever imagine’
The US author and orator on leaf blowers and Labubus, the weirdest thing she has done for love and struggling with contemporary novels
Four-year-old Gus Lamont disappeared from his homestead into the Australian outback. Two months on, questions remain
Authorities have undertaken one of the largest and most intensive searches for a missing person in South Australia
Trump news at a glance: Venezuela suspends all deportation flights after Trump airspace closure warning
Venezuela responds defiantly to Trump comments about closing airspace above country, saying it doesn’t accept foreign orders or threats
New behaviour standards are in place for parliament but crossbenchers say question time still rife with bullying
Independent MP Zali Steggall says it’s not always clear who is behind disorderly behaviour – and sometimes it can be a whole section of a political party
Couple from Kazakhstan allegedly used hidden camera and earpieces to win $1.18m from Sydney’s Crown casino
Woman, 36, and her husband, 44, arrested at Barangaroo and charged with dishonestly obtaining financial advantage
Rainforests, rivers and sacred sites are being ‘ripped to shreds’ by feral pigs, Queensland traditional owners warn
Destruction wrought by swine-borne disease is thinning the canopy of bunya pine forests and the problem is getting worse, experts say
Five Great Reads: the evolving history of the Beatles, Buddhist extremism, and anatomy of a WhatsApp group scandal
Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales
Hangovers and skullets: welcome to schoolies week 2025
The rite of passage for many Australian teenagers at Surfers Paradise has changed since the first party at Broadbeach in the 1970s
Venezuela denounces ‘colonialist threat’ as Trump orders airspace closed
President made declaration in a social media post, after FAA last week warned airlines of ‘worsening security situation’
How big tech is creating its own friendly media bubble to ‘win the narrative battle online’
At a time when distrust of big tech is high, Silicon Valley is embracing an alternative ecosystem where every CEO is a star
A Black Georgia community uprooted in 1942 still fights to go home
US descendants of Harris Neck’s Gullah Geechee families seek the return of ancestral land seized for a wartime airfield
‘Desire in one of its rawest forms’: what do we know about limerence?
For everything from pop music to poetry, overwhelming infatuation offers inspiration and storylines. But when might this tip over into something a little less healthy?