2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (249+ words) Anthony Albanese offered an unequivocal apology this week after making an off-colour comment about Kylie Minogue while playing a ‘shag, marry, date’ game on a podcast.Josephine Tovey speaks with Patrick Keneally, Gabrielle Jackson and Josh Butler about what the…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago   (276+ words) After finally meeting with Donald Trump, the prime minister, Anthony Albanese passed another political test and returned home with a win. Domestically, the Coalition continued to battle over net zero and generate its own headlines for all the wrong reasons....

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (100+ words) At the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre broke new ground in selling readers an angry rightwing perspective. Today, most of Fleet Street is run by his disciplesBy Andy Beckett. Read by Simon VanceThe summer issue of the Long Read magazine is…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (75+ words) The Guardian Shock, awe, death, joy and looting: how the Guardian covered the outbreak of the Iraq war – podcast In spring 2003, exuberance at the fall of Saddam was swiftly followed by a descent into deadly chaos. Whether moving independently or…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago   (217+ words) The Guardian’s editor-in-chief Katharine Viner looks back on the biggest news stories of 2025 It has been a year dominated by Donald Trump. It has not yet even been 12 full months since his return to the White House in January but…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (210+ words) Tony Barry and George Megalogenis (filling in for Barrie Cassidy) give their view on One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce’s viral moment this week and why they think it played well to his party’s base.George takes us back to past…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago   (253+ words) Margaret Sullivan on the billionaire father and son buying up the US media Speaking at a press conference last month, the US secretary of defence, Pete Hegseth, criticised CNN’s ‘fake news’ coverage of the US-Israel war on Iran. ‘The sooner…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (148+ words) What took British journalist Dom Phillips from the club nights of the UK dance scene as editor of MixMag to one of the most remote, and dangerous, corners of the Amazon rainforest? In 2022, Dom set off on a reporting trip…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (276+ words) Punch, a baby monkey in a Japanese zoo, has gone viral after bonding with a plush orangutan. That toy, from Ikea’s Djungelskog range, is now in high demand around the world – including in the Guardian Australia newsroom.Education reporter Caitlin…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago   (133+ words) A Queensland coroner has found that the three members of the Train family behind the 2022 Wieambilla shootings were not terrorists, but instead killed two police officers and a neighbour due to their shared ‘persecutory’ delusions.Queensland state reporter Andrew Messenger…...