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Federal election

Tuesday6 May 2025
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  • Solar Farm

    Clear air
    Australia has backed a rapid shift to renewable energy – and given Labor a chance on climate. How will it act?

    Adam Morton
  • Paul Kelly of Paul Kelly & coloured girls at Mushroom *****.Singer Paul Kelly, 33, currently riding high in the singles chart with the rolling country rock song To Her Door, doesn't make any grand claims to a mythical rock-n roll childhood, so those looki<br>Paul Kelly of Paul Kelly &amp; coloured girls at Mushroom *****.Singer Paul Kelly, 33, currently riding high in the singles chart with the rolling country rock song To Her Door, doesn't make any grand claims to a mythical rock-n roll childhood, so those looking for tales of rampant teeny sex, or sullen chants of Wee done wont kno edukashun, should turn the page posthaste. January 14, 1988. (Photo by Kenneth Stevens/Fairfax Media via Getty Images).

    Music
    Paul Kelly’s Post at 40: the album on which a future star found his voice

  • Peter Dutton is looking to his right. He is in front of a blue screen and the Australian flag is to the side

    Full Story podcast
    The ‘bloodletting’ and crisis inside the Liberal party

    Nour Haydar talks to chief political correspondent Tom McIlroy about the future of the Liberal party
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    Opinion cartoon
    Did Peter Dutton map his own future?

    Fiona Katauskas
    He was certainly heading in the (hard) right direction
    • Eta Aquariid meteor shower<br>EDITORS NOTE: Digital composite of 50 photographs taken over a period of 25 minutes. File photo dated 13/08/17 of meteors and star trails during the Perseid meteor shower seen from near Hawes in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Skygazers can look forward to seeing several shooting stars on Wednesday night, as the Earth passes through the dust left over from Halley's Comet. The Eta Aquariid meteor shower is expected to peak on the night of May 5, with up to 50 meteors per hour, and will be visible until the early morning of May 6. Issue date: Monday May 3, 2021. PA Photo. See PA story SCIENCE EtaAquariids. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

      Explainer
      What is the Eta Aquariids meteor shower? And where and when can I see it in Australia?

    • Mother with baby looking out the window

      I’m losing my mum to young-onset dementia. Caring for my baby reminds me who she was

      Alexandra Hansen
    • Emily Bratt pictured last month doing a plank outside on the grass.

      Fitness
      The one change that worked: I could never get fit – until I tried a 40-second plank every day

    • Elisabeth Moss, eyes closed, cuddles a baby who is sucking her thumb

      Television
      ‘It normalises the abhorrent’: is The Handmaid’s Tale the most frustrating show on TV?

Sport

  • Trent Alexander-Arnold desires a new challenge after producing a glittering CV at Liverpool.

    Alexander-Arnold walks on to Real Madrid after living the Liverpool dream

    Andy Hunter
  • Kagiso Rabada and South Africa teammates

    Cricket
    South Africa’s Rabada cleared to play Australia in World Test Championship

    • Shane Richardson and Owen Jenner (right) died after the “severe” incident in the British Superbike Championship.

      Motor sport
      Two riders dead after ‘catastrophic’ 11-bike crash in race in UK

    • Zhao Xintong celebrates his world championship win after beating Mark Williams.

      Snooker
      Zhao beats Williams to become first Chinese snooker world champion

    • FILE - San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich points from the bench are during the second half of the team's NBA basketball game against the Boston Celtics, March 26, 2023, in Boston. Popovich evidently doesn’t plan to leave the Spurs anytime soon. The NBA’s all-time winningest coach has signed a five-year contract to remain coach and president of the team, the Spurs announced Saturday, July 8. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

      ‘I’m El Jefe now’
      Popovich hands over Spurs coaching reins after nearly 30 years

    • Jannik Sinner trains ahead of his return to action at the Italian Open.

      Tennis
      Sinner setting expectations low as he returns from ban

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Opinion

  • Zoe Williams

    Harry’s TV interview told us everything – and nothing. Why are the royals such terrible communicators?

    Zoe Williams
  • Sky News Australia 2025 election

    As Australia’s election result reminds us, News Corp no longer has the power to sway voters

    Margaret Simons
    The declining power of the Murdoch press is part of the wider story of the waning influence of mainstream media
    • Voters queue at a polling booth in Brisbane

      Labor must heed the warnings wrapped up in its election win. Young voters are crying out for action

      Intifar Chowdhury
    • Trump talks to silhouetted reporters with helicopter and Washington Monument in the background

      Editorial
      The Guardian view on Trump’s shock therapy: warehouse and transport workers are the first victims of a class war

    • Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Tom Cruise<br>2R1CHKD Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Tom Cruise

      Trump’s attack on the film industry is a sign of xenophobic contempt

      Jesse Hassenger
    • Australia's opposition leader Peter Dutton leaves the stage after conceding defeat in the general election at the Liberal party election night event in Brisbane on May 3, 2025.

      The Liberal party’s massive defeat leaves it in dire straits. Where to from here?

      Judith Brett

Lifestyle

  • A$AP Rocky, Lewis Hamilton, Colman Domingo and Pharrell Williams on Vogue covers

    Fashion
    Met Gala will pose question: can Vogue keep diversity in fashion in Trump’s America?

    Event where fashion and politics meet puts editor Anna Wintour, a vocal Democrat supporter, in the spotlight
  • Closeup of a man's eye with short eyelashes

    Pass notes
    Blinking fools? The men who think shaving off their eyelashes will make them more masculine

  • G2: How to build a better life - If people-pleasing leaves you feeling empty, you may be hiding from yourself

    How to build a better life
    Are you a people pleaser? It’s time to find out what you really want

  • Rukmini Iyer's crispy chicken with zhoug and jersey royals.

    Food
    Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for crispy chicken with zhoug and jersey royals

  • An illustration depicting meditation, budgeting, therapy and running.

    Wellness
    How to start … anything: expert tips for trying something new

  • Emma Beddington

    I watched a woman clear her shower drain – and realised I had to get my own life in order

    Emma Beddington

Culture

  • a man looking at a camera

    Books
    Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha wins Pulitzer prize for commentary

  • Peg o' My Heart

    Film
    Peg o’ My Heart review – Hong Kong’s disordered dream life is focus of Lynchian thriller

    Set in the aftermath of the 2008 crash, Nick Cheung’s film follows a loose-cannon psychiatrist through a city deranged by stock-market storms
  • Noah Wyle in The Pitt

    Television
    The doctors will see you now! It’s the all-time top 20 TV medical dramas

    From Dr McDreamy to pill-popping nurses and nuns on bikes, here’s our countdown of the most heart-stopping hospital shows ever. Clear!
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Across the country

  • Australia nurse

    Industrial relations
    Queensland unions predict ‘hell of a bloody fight’ if LNP attacks nurses’ right to strike

    State government offered to backdate wages for nurses and midwives on condition they do not undertake protected industrial action in May
    • A general view of Lake Samsonvale, north of Brisbane, Queensland

      Brisbane
      Man charged with murder over wife’s Queensland kayak drowning tried to claim $1m insurance, police allege

    • Sydney
      Alleged mastermind behind Sydney’s ‘fake terrorism plot’ denies wider responsibility but admits ‘I picked Dural’

    • Victoria
      ‘I’ve been hiding powdered mushrooms in everything’: Erin Patterson’s Facebook messages revealed

    • Film
      Trump’s film tariff threat sparks concern in Australian movie industry

    • Exclusive
      Woman who claims to be Gina Rinehart’s niece calls on billionaire to ‘resolve any doubts’ with DNA test

    • Anthony Albanese
      PM tells crossbench to ‘get out of the way’ on housing as he faces calls for stronger action on environment

    • Bondi Junction attack
      Joel Cauchi’s mother told police he would not get treatment unless he did ‘something drastic,’ inquest hears

    • Police and policing
      NSW police told woman to remove tampon in illegal strip-search, court hears

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Around the world

  • Two nuns and a man speak outside St. Peter's Basilica in Rome

    Rome
    Vatican to cut phone signal during conclave to elect new pope

    Transmission will be deactivated from 3pm on 7 May and restored after announcement of new pontiff
    • Cork's Maebh O'Brien is challenged by Caoimhe Power of Kilkenny, on 27 April

      Ireland
      Irish camogie players don shorts in protest against skorts diktat

    • Ukraine war briefing
      Second night of Moscow drone raids, Kursk substation hit

    • Former vice-president
      Mike Pence rebukes Trump over tariffs and ‘wavering’ support for Ukraine

    • Canada
      Search for two young children missing in Canadian forest enters fourth day

    • Middle East
      Israel carries out fresh airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen

    • Music
      Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s sex-trafficking trial begins with jury selection in New York

    • UK
      Man arrested on suspicion of murder after death of man on UK cruise ship

    • UK
      Four Iranian men questioned over alleged major terror plot against British target

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    The Guardian picture essay
    Life for the displaced in Calais – in pictures

  • A free Yoga class on the artifical grass surface ioutside the new Davis Center.

    Environment
    New York unveils most dramatic changes to Central Park in years – in pictures

  • Rebecca Hendin on the Farage-Trump nexus – cartoon

    Opinion cartoon
    Rebecca Hendin on the Farage-Trump nexus – cartoon

  • People cast their votes in the seat of Wentworth at a polling station at Bondi Beach.

    Swimmers, dogs and democracy sausages
    Australian election day in pictures

Explore

  • Israeli tanks driving in the deserted outskirts of Gaza, with destroyed building in the background.

    Analysis
    Announcement of Israel’s Gaza occupation plan is carefully timed

    By going public now Benjamin Netanyahu hopes to squeeze Hamas for concessions and please the far right
  • a woman speaking at a podium

    US
    Maga media mob: meet the new rightwing faces in the White House briefing room

  • Two men in suits stand and talk in front of a white wall outside

    Analysis
    Loyalty matters most in race to become Trump’s next national security adviser

  • Architecture
    We’re having sex inside Moby Dick! The wild architectural world of Japan’s love hotels

  • US
    First-of-its-kind Hawaii bill raises tourist taxes to fund climate relief

  • Interview
    A child on thin ice: EA Hanks on life with her abusive mother – and world-famous father

  • Primatology
    Gorillas offer clues to how social relationships work in humans – study

  • Buddhism
    India tries to halt auction of Piprahwa gems found with Buddha’s remains

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    ‘I’m burping? At least I didn’t fart!’ Ten things I’ve learned about ageing rockers

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