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The Treasurer on Trump, taxes and a global trade war
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In budget week, the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, sat down with Nour Haydar and political reporter Josh Butler. They discuss tax cuts, the upcoming electio...
Could Trump force us to pay more for our medicines?
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Big pharma is eyeing Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, as they lobby Donald Trump to demand higher prices for their medicines. Anthony Alb...
Budget 2025: Coalition and Labor clash on tax cuts
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There were few surprises in tonight’s budget, but with an election around the corner the treasurer will be hoping one message gets through to voters...
The political firestorm over Tasmania’s salmon farming
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fresh questions have been raised about the environmental impact of salmon farming in Tasmania with conservation groups funding attack ads aimed at Lab...
The language of whale song
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Researchers have discovered that humpback whale song is strikingly similar to human language. Dr Jenny Allen, an expert in whale song structure at Gri...
Back to Back Barries: Can Dutton regain discipline and confidence?
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are still in election limbo, so how can leaders maintain their focus during a long pseudo-campaign? Tony Barry and Barrie Cassidy examine...
Newsroom edition: what a divided Australia means for the election
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The unofficial election campaign is about to intensify, with a pre-election budget just days away. With political messaging coming thick and fast, bot...
The fake terrorism plot and the real threats to free speech
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this month, police revealed their belief that a caravan found with explosives on the outskirts of Sydney was a criminal con job. Previously re...
Israel shatters Gaza ceasefire
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Emma Graham-Harrison reports on the strikes carried out by Israeli military forces on dozens of targets across Gaza early on Tuesday, leaving more tha...
The danger of Australia’s obsession with big cars
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The demand for oversized cars in Australia is surging, with SUVs and utes increasingly becoming the family and commuter car of choice. And while they ...
Why is Formula One having a moment?
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One weekend every year, Formula One takes over Melbourne. And while F1 is riding high in Australia with a massive new audience of young people – esp...
Introducing Gina: power, privilege and influence
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As we approach the Australian federal election, our new podcast series is exploring how much power and influence Gina Rinehart has in this country. Sh...
Back to Back Barries: is it time to stand up to Trump?
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a wild week in Australian politics. Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred delayed the election, giving us a bonus budget while the revelation a carav...
Newsroom edition: does Peter Dutton have a policy problem?
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the shadow election campaign marches inexorably towards the official one, Peter Dutton and the Coalition have started to face scrutiny. The opposit...
Can Canada’s ‘rock star’ banker PM take on Trump and win?
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England, has a new role – saving his country from becoming America’s 51st state. Leyland Cecco rep...
Trump v Turnbull and the looming threat of tariffs
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s still a long road to go before a federal election and it’s already been pretty bumpy. Not only has Anthony Albanese delayed firing the sta...
Could Trump sink our subs deal?
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When then prime minister Scott Morrison signed the $US3bn Aukus agreement, it was hailed as Australia’s entry point into nuclear-power submarine sta...
Inside the Islamic State prisons the west is trying to forget
09 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Safi travelled to north-east Syria to speak to IS foreign fighters imprisoned there. He discovered that a change in the US administration, and...
Back to Back Barries: how to rescue a recession election
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry go back to the future to look at how history has given us an insight into what to expect in 2025 – and what...
Newsroom edition: why life for women and men is still not equal
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the past 20 years men have not increased the amount of housework they do, despite women’s workloads increasing. While they’re at work, women ar...
How do we close the orgasm gap?
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We all deserve pleasure, so why don’t cisgendered women feel entitled to it? The orgasm gap shines a light on not only why strict social norms trap ...
Trump v Zelenskyy and the 10-minute tirade that changed the world
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The US is pausing military aid to Ukraine, days after the US president, Donald Trump, clashed with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in the ...
Censorship and the ongoing fallout from the Venice Biennale saga
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Just last month, artist Khaled Sabsabi told Full Story he never imagined he’d be picked as Australia’s representative for the 2026 Venice Biennale...
How Trump unleashed chaos in science
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In his first month in office the US president has thrown science in the US into chaos, delaying projects and casting the future of research funding an...
Back to Back Barries: Trump, the great disrupter
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, in Guardian Australia’s new politics podcast, Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry examine events that disrupt election campaigns – and there ...
Newsroom edition: Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump and their attacks on the media
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week the Trump administration announced that it would be the White House, not the independent journalists’ association, that decides who gets t...
Taiwan holds its breath as Trump turns on Ukraine
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Within a month of returning to the White House, Donald Trump has upended decades of American foreign policy on Russia and Ukraine – and his unpredic...
The religious sect members who killed Elizabeth Struhs
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last month, 14 adult members of Australian religious sect the Saints were found guilty of the manslaughter of eight-year-old Elizabeth Struhs. Today t...
Could you live without money?
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jo Nemeth has lived without money for 10 years. When Guardian Australia published her story last month, some readers were critical of her decisions an...
Trump brings Russia in from the cold, but at what cost to Ukraine?
23 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Freedland speaks to veteran US diplomat Kurt Volker and the Guardian’s US live news editor Chris Michael about Trump’s efforts to bring P...
Introducing Back to Back Barries - a new politics podcast from Guardian Australia
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The election is right around the corner and politicians are hitting the campaign trail – but what are they really up to? Guardian Australia’s new ...
Newsroom edition: covering acts of hate in polarised times
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Antisemitic and Islamophobic attacks are on the rise. For months the Coalition has accused the Albanese government of making the country less safe for...
Dancing with the teals: are we heading to a minority government?
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Predictions of an election announcement by Anthony Albanese are reaching fever pitch after the RBA announced a cut in interest rates. Many had forecas...
Are political donations the dark shadow of our democracy?
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Laws on political donations, often seen as the murky underbelly of politics, are getting a rewrite. Labor – with the help of the Coalition – has b...
Lorena Allam on why we still haven’t closed the gap
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since the failure of the voice referendum, the government has been very quiet when it comes to Indigenous affairs. But the prime minister has given an...
Greg Jericho on why it’s time for a rate cut
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Tuesday the governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia will announce the board’s first – and highly anticipated – decision on interest rates f...
Antoinette Lattouf v the ABC
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Antoinette Lattouf’s unlawful termination claim against the ABC has been heard in the federal court over the past two weeks. The lawsuit ...
Newsroom edition: how the hell do you deal with Trump?
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week Anthony Albanese faced his first Trump test. The prime minister tried to carve out an exception for Australia from Donald Trump’s promised...
Sam Kerr found not guilty
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Matildas captain and Chelsea skipper Sam Kerr’s trial for racially aggravated harassment has ended with a not guilty verdict. Sport reporter Jack Sn...
How Trump made ‘diversity’ a dirty word
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Has the US president won the battle against diversity, equity and inclusion? Lauren Aratani reports You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fu...
Food waste and why you should take the sticker off your apple
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More councils across Australia are rolling out food organics and garden organics – Fogo – collections to address the enormous problem of food wast...
How did sexual assault become so easy to get away with?
09 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Very few victims of sexual assault will report the crime to police and even fewer alleged perpetrators are found guilty. A special series by Guardian ...
Going bald in an increasingly hairy world
08 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With the rise of hair transplants, many men are opting out of baldness. But why is it so hard to accept this natural part of ageing? Stuart Heritage a...
Khaled Sabsabi never thought he’d be Australia’s pick for the Venice Biennale
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Just over a week ago, Khaled Sabsabi was selected as Australia’s pick for the Venice Biennale. Within days, the prominent artist’s appointment had...
Politicians, private lunches, and the perils of passing the pub test
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The perks of public office were cast into the spotlight this week after the NSW transport minister, Jo Haylen, was forced to resign. The Labor veteran...
Gaza, trade wars and the chaos of Trump diplomacy
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Guardian diplomatic editor, Patrick Wintour, talks through Donald Trump’s latest moves on the world stage, from proposing that the US takes over...
Parliament is back: how much for the long lunch?
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After a long summer break, politicians are back in the nation’s capital for what could be the last sitting fortnight of the 47th parliament. And whi...
Australian imports allegedly linked to Uyghur forced labour in China
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Australia imported goods from companies blacklisted in the US for alleged links to forced labour of Uyghur people in China, according to the findings ...
What a caravan filled with explosives has to do with antisemitism
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last week a caravan laden with explosives was found on the outskirts of Sydney. Police said there were indications the explosives would be used in an ...
Australia’s public pool class divide
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the heat hits harder, Australians head to public swimming pools to cool off. They’re also an important place to learn to swim. But going for a di...
A journey to Greenland: Trump’s 51st state?
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do Greenlanders make of the US president’s interest in their island? Miranda Bryant reports You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/ful...
How DeepSeek stunned the AI industry
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The launch of a new chatbot by Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek triggered a plunge in US tech stocks as it appeared to perform as well...
Newsroom edition: Dutton eyes Musk like cuts to the public service
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Dutton wants to slash thousands of government jobs in an Elon Musk-style purge of the public service. But this is not the first time an Australi...
How to win a cost-of-living election
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Around the world, soaring inflation has pushed voters to turn on incumbent governments. But one country bucked the trend – Mexico, where the leftwin...
The tech titans: who’s really in charge of Donald Trump’s America?
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump’s decision to seat super-rich tech barons Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Sundar Pichai in front of his own member...
Why Australia needs better whistleblower protections
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Blowing the whistle on corruption, wrongdoing and unethical behaviour can come at a huge personal cost to those who choose to speak out. Kieran Pender...
LA fires: how can we stop it happening here?
26 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As America’s second-largest city reels from massive fires blown in from the bush, Australians are looking for lessons on how to stop it happening to...
Where did our attention spans go, and can we get them back?
25 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Oxford English Dictionary announced its word of the year at the end of 2024: ‘brain rot’. The term relates to the supposedly negative effects ...
Southport attacks: the failures that allowed Axel Rudakubana to kill
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It was hard to imagine a more unlikely place for horror to unfold than a community centre holding a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in the sleepy seas...
Newsroom edition: is Albanese letting Dutton set the political agenda?
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As an election year begins, both the prime minister Anthony Albanese and the opposition leader Peter Dutton have started laying out their priorities a...