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Portrait of CP Scott
Comment is free…
but facts are sacred
CP Scott, 1921 Guardian editor
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    Did Peter Dutton map his own future?

    Fiona Katauskas
  • 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
  • Solar Farm

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

    Adam Morton
    After a landslide election win, there will never be a better chance to shake off old policy impasses and deliver a more ambitious plan for the environment
  • TheUnduttoningpixkie

    Look out! Australia has decided to undutton its culture war pantaloons and give Albo a historic mandate

    First Dog on the Moon
  • 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
  • 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
  • The image shows a woman thinking pensively holding a cup of tea and a young Buddhist monk sitting in front of a temple

    In a culture obsessed with positive thinking, can letting go be a radical act?

    Nadine Levy
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Columnists

  • Lorena Allam

    Lorena Allam
    Dutton’s comments show we are back to punching down on Indigenous Australians for attention – and votes

    Lorena Allam
    It is disingenuous for politicians to be shocked when people decide to turn words into action, even in the predawn hush of Anzac Day
  • Greg Jericho

    Greg Jericho
    By getting tangled up on inflation and exaggerating numbers, Peter Dutton has blown the opportunity he was handed

    Greg Jericho
  • Van Badham

    Van Badham
    The ‘womanosphere’ is the latest cultural propaganda assault on young womanhood. Will it work?

    Van Badham

  • Ranjana Srivastava
    The unwritten code of healthcare is that doctors don’t strike. Until now

    Ranjana Srivastava

  • Paul Daley
    ‘The file says I have a criminal record since the age of two’: the not-so-extraordinary story of Uncle Larry Walsh

  • Peter Lewis
    ​Guardian Essential report:​ is the real question now just how big Labor’s victory will be? – Australian Politics podcast

  • Lenore Taylor
    A stunning win for Labor – Full Story podcast

Cartoons

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    Why is election day a cause for celebration?

  • Tarkine2025 1pixke

    I went to an ancient rainforest with 90 artists and lived! Despite my endless cynicism I had a lovely time

  • 250501 TOP messages cartoon thumbnail

    What message is Clive Palmer trying to send?

  • ValerieIsSavedpike

    Valerie is saved! The recalcitrant houndlet gave up her freedom for a rotisserie chicken and so would I

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Indigenous Australia

  • Dhuruputjpi River

    One of Australia’s oldest cold cases: why after 90 years a family is still waiting for justice

    Tom Murray
  • Gumatj leaders Djawa Yunupingu and Balupalu Yunupingu celebrate outside the High Court of Australia in Canberra, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

    Yunupiŋu played the long game on native title – and has finally won

    Clare Wright
  • Aboriginal tent embassy

    Australians mostly have little to worry about. So why do we succumb to fear?

    Julianne Schultz
  • Paul Daley

    Today could be a day for soul-searching. Instead we cling to a distant monarchy in denial of our racist past

    Paul Daley
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World view

  • Simon Nixon

    Why Europe needs a common defence fund – outside the EU

    Simon Nixon
  • Trump talks to silhouetted reporters with helicopter and Washington Monument in the background

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

    • Baby asleep on father's chest

      The Guardian view on paternity leave: campaigners are right to demand more

    • Rebecca Hendin on the Farage-Trump nexus – cartoon

      Rebecca Hendin on the Farage-Trump nexus – cartoon

    • Frances Ryan

      Look at how Reform speaks about minorities. Why would Labour want to mimic this nasty party?

      Frances Ryan
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