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Mitch Brown on the AFL’s homophobia problem

29 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The AFL has again found itself embroiled in allegations of on-field homophobia. St Kilda’s Lance Collard was handed a nine-week suspension for using...

Is Sanae Takaichi the most powerful woman in the world?

29 Apr 2026

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Justin McCurry on Japan’s heavy metal-loving prime minister and her plan to amend the country’s pacifist constitution

Decoding America: Is the US’s political violence the worst it has ever been?

28 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the wake of the shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner, Donald Trump and the White House machine have come out fighting – blaming t...

David Smith inside the White House press dinner shooting

27 Apr 2026

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When gunshots were heard from inside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night, attendees weren’t sure what was happening or if the...

The new Michael Jackson biopic. Why now?

26 Apr 2026

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A blockbuster film about the controversial singer could make US$1bn worldwide. Owen Myers, the deputy arts editor for Guardian US, tells Nosheen Iqbal...

The Sunday Read: the real cost of Labor’s NDIS cuts

25 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Autism advocate and researcher Clem Bastow argues the inclusive world disability advocates fought so hard for is being torn apart

Back to Back Barries: Can Labor’s 'tough decisions' save the NDIS?

24 Apr 2026

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Tony Barry and Barrie Cassidy examine health minister Mark Butler’s announcement this week that Labor will move thousands of people off the NDIS to ...

Newsroom Edition: We are in a ‘fossil-fuel crisis’. Is Labor meeting the moment?

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It has been almost two months since the US and Israel launched a war on Iran, unleashing violence across the region and chaos in the global economy. B...

Disability minister Mark Butler on the ‘necessary’ cuts to an NDIS ‘under pressure’

23 Apr 2026

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Nearly 15 years after Julia Gillard introduced the national disability insurance scheme (NDIS), the Albanese government announced the most significant...

How Victoria’s treaty heralds a new era of politics

22 Apr 2026

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After about a decade of work, voting has closed for Victoria’s First Nations treaty body, and next month those elected will form a new-look First Pe...

How bad is the Australian economy going to get?

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, warned that Australians could face tougher times ahead as the economy is held ‘hostage’ by the US-Israel wa...

Decoding America: Is Trump having regrets as ceasefire deadline looms?

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy talk about Donald Trump’s erratic social media posts, as commentators try to understand the US president’s str...

A homeless man died in public in Sydney. How did his death go unnoticed?

20 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The strange and lonely death of Bikram Lama exposes a glaring gap in homelessness services. Reged Ahmad speaks with Guardian Australia’s chief inves...

The vulnerable children charged with possessing extremist material

19 Apr 2026

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Nour Haydar speaks with investigations reporter Ariel Bogle about how a ‘bad’ law means children charged with possessing extremist material may no...

The Sunday read: Who gets to be Australian?

18 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week, in the wake of opposition leader Angus Taylor announcing the Coalition’s new hardline immigration policy, author Yumna Kassab questions h...

Back to Back Barries: the Coalition’s “risky” immigration plan

17 Apr 2026

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Tony Barry and Barrie Cassidy discuss the opposition leader, Angus Taylor’s, new immigration policy and why Tony sees it as a strategy to come secon...

How Gina Rinehart lost hundreds of millions of dollars in court

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this bonus episode of the Walkley-nominated series about Australia’s richest person, senior correspondent Sarah Martin and producer Joe Koning ex...

Angus Taylor’s Trumpian immigration plan

15 Apr 2026

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Liberal leader Angus Taylor has announced his new immigration policy including a crackdown on immigration and an emphasis on ‘Australian values’ i...

What will it take for the PM to speak up against Trump?

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Earlier this month, as the United States and Israel’s war on Iran raged, the prime minister frustrated many when he reiterated his support for the U...

Decoding America: Trump v the Pope

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Decoding America, Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy look at Donald Trump’s war of words with the Pope, that AI image and the bl...

Who should pay for the health impacts of the climate change?

13 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Over recent years, the warnings about the threat posed by rising sea levels have been getting louder and more urgent. Now, a new international commiss...

Two US court losses show the shifting tide against Meta – Full Story podcast

12 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Last month in the United States in two separate court rooms, in two separate states and in the span of just two days, the world’s most powerful soci...

Is this the end of Viktor Orbán’s regime?

11 Apr 2026

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“Hungary has been a model for the Trump presidency for a while now,” the Guardian journalist Flora Garamvolgyi tells Helen Pidd. “And US Republi...

Back to Back Barries: Cutting through Trump’s ‘wall of noise’

10 Apr 2026

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Tony Barry and Barrie Cassidy discuss the fragile ceasefire in Iran and the pressure building on Australian politicians to respond to Donald Trump’s...

Newsroom Edition: Did the Albanese government try to bury its gambling reforms?

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Released just hours before Australians began their Easter long weekend, the Albanese government’s long awaited reforms to gambling advertisements ha...

Will Albanese find fuel security in Singapore?

08 Apr 2026

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While the US and Iran have agreed to a two-week ceasefire that could lead to the reopening of the strait of Hormuz, the consequences of Donald Trump’...

The arrest of Australia's most decorated war hero Ben Roberts-Smith

07 Apr 2026

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Australia’s most decorated living soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, has been arrested at Sydney airport in relation to alleged war crimes. He was subseque...

Decoding America: Trump lashes out at Australia

07 Apr 2026

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Decoding America is a new weekly podcast from Guardian Australia hosted by Reged Ahmad with Jonathan Yerushalmy, one of our editors on the internation...

Move over Murdochs, here come the Ellisons

06 Apr 2026

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Margaret Sullivan on the billionaire father and son buying up the US media

What’s behind the injectable peptide craze?

05 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Grey-market injectable peptides – a category of substances with obscure, alphanumeric names such as BPC-157, GHK-Cu, or TB-500 – have developed a ...

Energy minister Chris Bowen on the impact of the fuel crisis

03 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The minister for energy and climate change, Chris Bowen, tells Guardian Australia’s political editor, Tom McIlroy, that despite shortages at petrol ...

Newsroom edition: the PM goes prime time, but is he still going soft on Trump?

02 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Jo Tovey speaks with Patrick Keneally, Gabrielle Jackson and Patrick Commins about Anthony Albanese’s rare national address, cost of living relief a...

Albanese warns Australians that next few months ‘may not be easy’ - Full Story podcast

01 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The prime minister addressed the nation on Wednesday evening in a rare move to reassure the public, as the economic fallout from the war on Iran conti...

How the war on Iran has brought reality crashing down on Donald Trump

01 Apr 2026

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David Smith speaks with Reged Ahmad about how the Iran war is testing Donald Trump’s ability to bend the world to his will

What Labor’s changes mean for the price of your petrol

31 Mar 2026

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Facing pressure over mounting petrol prices, the prime minister called an emergency meeting of the national cabinet on Monday to come up with a plan f...

Will Trump put boots on the ground in Iran?

31 Mar 2026

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As thousands of US soldiers and marines arrive in the Middle East, Iran is accusing Washington of privately plotting a ground assault while publicly t...

What we know about the shooting of Dezi Freeman

30 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Fugitive Dezi Freeman, the man allegedly responsible for the shooting deaths of two officers at Porepunkah, has been killed after a seven-month manhun...

What’s behind the push for more Australian babies?

29 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When the new Nationals leader, Matt Canavan, addressed the media earlier this month, he shared a vision of a ‘hyper’ Australia with ‘more Austra...

The Sunday Read: When neutrality becomes dangerous

28 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Journalist Shadi Khan Saif grew up and lived in Afghanistan for most of his adult life – until it was no longer safe for him to do so. This week, ag...

Back to Back Barries: How the fuel crisis could hurt Albanese

27 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry go for a deep dive into the South Australian election outcome and what it means for federal politics. They examine what ...

Andrew Roth on what’s really going on with Trump’s peace talks

26 Mar 2026

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More than four weeks into the war, Donald Trump says peace talks with Iran are going well, but Iran denies any negotiations are taking place. Reged Ah...

Andrew Hastie on Trump’s ‘overconfident’ Iran war

26 Mar 2026

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This week, as fallout from the US-Israel war on Iran continues, the fuel crisis hit Australian hip pockets harder than ever before. Meanwhile the Libe...

Is Israel deploying the ‘Gaza model’ in Lebanon?

25 Mar 2026

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As Israeli strikes have intensified in Lebanon reporter William Christou has been travelling around the country witnessing the destruction in some of ...

Can Australia avoid the worst of the oil shock?

24 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Australia is facing skyrocketing oil prices and demand, as supply is blocked at the strait of Hormuz amid the US and Israel’s war on Iran. With only...

Inside One Nation's orange wave in SA and what it means for the nation

23 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation surged ahead of the Liberal party and secured seats in both sides of the South Australian parliament in the recent state...

What the Epstein case teaches us about grooming

23 Mar 2026

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Lucia Osborne-Crowley on what we should learn from Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes

Why the Christchurch attack still awaits a full reckoning

22 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In 2019, a white supremacist murdered 51 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch in what was New Zealand’s worst mass shooting. On the seventh an...

The Sunday read: Why the Reserve Bank needs to be more cautious

21 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Reserve Bank of Australia has decided to raise interest rates once again amid surging costs of living and the war on Iran. Independent economist N...

Introducing Off Duty: The Crime

21 Mar 2026

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On the evening of 29 December 2011, police officer Clifton Lewis was moonlighting as a security guard at a Chicago minimart when two men walked in. Th...

Back to Back Barries: Will the Iran war trigger another recession we have to have?

20 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry examine the fuel crisis and whether the Australian public will blame the Albanese government for the growing economic fa...

Newsroom edition: how Pauline Hanson’s One Nation is changing politics

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Josephine Tovey speaks with Mike Ticher and Sarah Martin about why the electorate is flocking to the rightwing political movement, and what major part...

What Nigel Farage will say for money

18 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Reform UK leader has a lucrative extra gig sending paid-for Cameo messages. But an analysis of more than 4,000 show they include videos for a neo-...

Will One Nation go mainstream in South Australia’s election?

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

South Australian premier Peter Malinauskas is predicted to win this Saturday’s state election by a landslide – but that’s not why this poll is a...

Will the strait of Hormuz torpedo Trump's war?

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Events in the narrow waterway are causing chaos around the globe. The Guardian’s energy correspondent, Jillian Ambrose, explains why

How police are using ‘less lethal’ weapons at protests

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Stinger grenades, OC spray and bean bag rounds: these are just some of the “less lethal” weapons police have at their disposal and that are increa...

Was Iran really building a nuclear weapon?

15 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Among the many justifications Donald Trump has presented for the US and Israel attacking Iran has been the supposedly imminent threat posed by its nuc...

The Sunday read: Paul Daley on Australia’s blind acceptance of Trump’s war on Iran

14 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

As Australia risks becoming entangled in Trump and Netanyahu’s war on Iran, Guardian Australia columnist Paul Daley questions whether appeasing the ...

Back to Back Barries: Does Matt Canavan have a strategy to take on One Nation?

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Canavan has emerged as the leader of the National party. But, ask Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry, is he the right person to take on One Nation? An...

Newsroom edition: Labor is walking a tightrope as the politics of war hits Australia

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

As the second week of the war with Iran draws to a close, any suggestion that Australia’s involvement would be limited to in-principle support has e...

‘More Australian babies!’ where will Matt Canavan take the Nationals now? – podcast

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The National party in Australia has a new federal leader as senator Matt Canavan emerged as the winner of a tight party-room ballot on Wednesday. The ...

Australia is sending weapons to the Gulf. Does that mean we are at war?

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

On Tuesday morning, the prime minister announced Australia is sending aircraft, missiles, and personnel to the Gulf as war rages in the region. But An...

Iranian women's football players have asylum in Australia, but what now?

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

After days of speculation, five players from the Iranian women’s football team were formally granted protection in Australia by home affairs ministe...

Amanda Meade takes us inside the Kyle and Jackie ‘O’ bust-up

09 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

After 25 years of drama, the Kyle and Jackie O Show is now off the air. Kyle Sandilands is suspended due to ‘serious misconduct’, and both shock j...

The anti-climate policy blowing a hole in Labor’s budget

08 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This year, the Australian federal government will spend billions on a scheme that makes it cheaper for miners and other industries to use diesel and p...

The Sunday Read: My Grandfather escaped Iran. But I’m not celebrating Trump’s war

07 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week, as Trump’s war on Iran rages on and expands, an Australian Iranian journalist writes about her grandfather’s journey escaping the Islam...

Back to Back Barries: will Trump’s Iran war become Albanese’s mess?

06 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

One week on from the start of Trump’s war on Iran, Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry examine Anthony Albanese’s swift response in support of the strik...

Newsroom Edition: Australia and the ‘bomb first’ new world order

05 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Newsroom Edition is back for 2026, and new host Josephine Tovey speaks with Gabrielle Jackson and Bonnie Malkin about how Australia has responded ...

Jonathan Freedland on what it will take for Trump to walk away from war

05 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The US and Israel’s war with Iran is nearing its first full week, and after throwing the region into chaos, it is starting to spread beyond the Midd...

The election review the Liberals didn’t want you to see

04 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When the Liberal party received a copy of the scathing assessment of its 2025 election loss, the federal executive decided to bury it. The attempt to ...

Is the US the most pressing threat to peace?

03 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When the United States and Israel began bombing Iran over the weekend they set in motion a war that has engulfed the region. In Australia, prime minis...

Four weeks or forever: How long will Trump’s war in Iran last?

03 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Since Donald Trump’s decision to join Israel in a war on Iran, the world has been asking “why?” and “what’s the plan?” But does the US pre...

Why is Albanese supporting Trump’s illegal strike on Iran?

02 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Not long after the US and Israel launched a deadly attack on Iran, the Australian government came out swiftly to express total support for the action....

Chaos and uncertainty as Trump unleashes war on Iran

01 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Israel and the US have launched a barrage of missile strikes on Iran, supported by a vast American armada that has been building up in the region. The...

High-speed rail and heartbreak. Will this time be any different?

01 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The federal government has released the business case for a bullet train between Sydney and Newcastle, promising funding in hopes of getting the $60bn...

The Sunday read: a day with Punch the monkey’s Djungelskog toy

28 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Back to Back Barries: the politics of no sympathy for ‘IS families’

26 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Tony Barry and Barrie Cassidy examine the divisive political debate over the future of the 34 Australian women and children languishing in a Syrian de...

Will Andrew bring down the monarchy?

26 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

As British MPs vote to release the documents relating to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s appointment as trade envoy, Helen Pidd speaks to Andrew Lownie...

Exclusive: the Australian children of IS families speak to the Guardian

25 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week, journalist William Christou made the long journey to al-Roj camp in north-eastern Syria where 2,000 families are detained – including 23 ...

Ukrainian men on how four years of war has changed them

24 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A DJ turned soldier explains how life has changed for Ukraine’s men while Tracey McVeigh and Shaun Walker report on the impact of the conflict and w...

The UK reckons with Epstein, when will Trump’s America?

23 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Britain is now debating removing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the royal line of succession after the former prince was arrested on suspicion of mis...

Coles in court: the high-stakes battle over the price of your groceries

22 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is taking Coles to the federal court testing allegations the supermarket breached the law by...

The Sunday read: Fiona Wright on waiting for your parents to die to own a home

21 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Every Sunday, we’ll bring you some of the Guardian’s best stories from the week. Stories we loved, that made us feel happy, sad, or just made us t...

Back to Back Barries: the Liberals’ looming election test

20 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Tony Barry and Barrie Cassidy examine new polling that shows the upcoming South Australian election could deliver a nightmare result for the Liberal p...

Albanese on ex-prince Andrew, Pauline Hanson and Islamic state families

20 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In his first comments after the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Anthony Albanese says that the ex-prince has had an extraordinary fall from grac...

Andrew arrested: is this the end for the royal family?

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office by police investigating his dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. Si...

No inheritance, no home: the unjust wealth transfer

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For many Australians, the only chance they will have at owning a home will come in the form of tragedy. House prices have become so expensive that Aus...

The political furore over Islamic State families

18 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A group of 34 Australian women and children held by Islamic State for years without charge have been forced to return to a detention camp after attemp...

Graham Readfearn steps into our climate future

17 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Extreme heat is already the most common cause of weather-related hospitalisations in Australia and with heatwaves intensifying, our climate and enviro...

Why did Obama say aliens are real?

17 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Barack Obama has caused a frenzy after saying he thinks aliens are real during a podcast interview. The former US president was forced to release a st...

The link between ICE and Australian detention centres

16 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

As Australians watch Donald Trump continue to crack down on immigrants, a private prison company used by ICE in the US is now running detention centre...

Sideline rage at kids’ sport

15 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A recent survey has painted a damning picture of the bullying and abuse some of Australia’s coaches, referees and club officials face each week on t...

The Sunday Read: Brigid Delaney wants you to be kinder

14 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Every Sunday, we’ll bring you some of the Guardian’s best stories from the week. Stories we loved, that made us feel happy, sad, or just made us t...

Back to Back Barries: is Angus Taylor enough to stop One Nation?

13 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Barries are back, and Angus Taylor has won the Liberal leadership battle against Sussan Ley. Speaking on Friday afternoon, the new leader said he ...

New Liberal leader Angus Taylor wants to ‘shut the door’

13 Feb 2026

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Angus Taylor has been elected the Liberal party’s new leader, ousting Sussan Ley in a party room ballot 34 votes to 17. Speaking shortly after the v...

The Greens’ Nick McKim says inviting Isaac Herzog was ‘deliberately inflammatory’

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Protesters around Australia, including Nick McKim and other Greens MPs, gathered to express opposition to the visit of the Israeli president, Isaac He...

The Libspill is on: Taylor v Ley set for Liberal leadership showdown on Friday morning

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

After weeks of speculation, a Liberal leadership spill is set for 9am on Friday when Angus Taylor will challenge the opposition leader, Sussan Ley, fo...

Could the Epstein files bring down Keir Starmer?

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Keir Starmer has seen off a challenge to his leadership after facing calls for his resignation over the appointment of Labour powerbroker Peter Mandel...

Why Jeff Bezos gutted the Washington Post

11 Feb 2026

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Hundreds of jobs have gone at the newspaper that broke the Watergate scandal. Was profit or politics behind the decision? Jeremy Barr reports

An update on the Lake Cargelligo triple murder

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Lake Cargelligo, central west New South Wales, police are hunting for an alleged triple murderer. Julian Ingram, also known as Julian Pierpoint, is...

Punched, pepper sprayed, charged: police accused of brutality at Sydney protests

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Last night tens of thousands of people gathered in cities across the country to protest against a visit by Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog. Outside...