6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (198+ words) Dotted like an outline around parts of Australia’s coast are military bases – the majority of which the US has control of or access to. Now a special Guardian investigation reveals the breadth of Donald Trump’s US military presence in the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (103+ words) Five stories that feel like five answers to one important question: in a world where AI chatbots can help us through a breakup, listen like a friend, be a life coach, draft a difficult text message and do our work,…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (127+ words) In this episode of Guardian Australia’s US politics podcast Decoding America, co-hosts Jonathan Yerushalmy and Reged Ahmad explore why datacentres in the US have provoked such anger – and whether that could harm Republicans in the midterms given Donald Trump is…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (139+ words) From immigration to inflation, housing sits at the heart of most political debates. But political parties are struggling to come up with a coherent message - and no one has a clear plan to fix the crisis. Liberal senator and shadow…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (188+ words) Every Wednesday and Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2026, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it.This week, from March: It…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (169+ words) On Wednesday, the Labor government announced environmental and energy safeguards on new datacentres in Australia. Our political editor, Tom McIlroy, speaks to the assistant minister for science, technology and the digital economy, Dr Andrew Charlton, about the government’s push for…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (153+ words) Millionaires including former footballer Gary Lineker are asking Andy Burnham to tax their wealth more. More than 100 UK-based millionaires have signed an open letter to the prime minister, saying: ‘We want you to tax us. We can afford it.’ So…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (156+ words) Sixteen- and 17-year-olds face an overnight social media curfew in an extension of the government’s social media ban for under-16s. Under the plan, aimed at reducing online harms, certain apps would be blocked by default from midnight to 6am. But the…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (119+ words) The US government has been forced to pay billions in refunds to companies that were hit by Donald Trump’s ‘liberation day’ tariffs. The US has paid out $81bn (£61bn) this fiscal year after the supreme court ruled the tariffs were illegal. Lucy…...