Extra diesel shipments prioritised for regional areas
An extra 100 million litres of diesel has been secured for Australia, with half of that to be prioritised for regional areas. Two extra cargoes of diesel will enter the…
Jitters over Middle East sends Aussie share market down
Australia’s share market is on track for a fourth straight session of losses, as the ongoing Middle East conflict and resulting energy shock continue to weigh on sentiment. On Friday,…
Israel-aligned law firm appointed to Antisemitism Royal Commission, no tender
The Attorney General’s office used an opaque process to appoint law firm Gilbert+Tobin as lawyers assisting the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion without open tender. Stephanie Tran reports.…
Why are White House journalists partying with Trump? | Margaret Sullivan
The White House correspondents’ dinner has always been a questionable affair. It’s even more worrying under an anti-press administration Even in the pre-Trump era, I had reservations about the annual…
The Guardian view on Anthropic’s Claude Mythos: when AI finds every flaw, who controls the internet? | Editorial
Tech can scale cyber-attacks and defences alike, raising questions about private power, public risk and the future of a shared internet Anthropic announced its latest AI model, Claude Mythos, this…
With his Bible readings, Trump is doubling down on his God complex. Somehow, evangelical Christians are buying it | Emma Brockes
The US president is making a desperate plea to the one group that seemingly hasn’t deserted him – yet He has lost the Catholics, the foreign policy isolationists and the…
A catastrophic climate event is upon us. Here is why you’ve heard so little about it | George Monbiot
Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is more likely to collapse than previously thought. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny doesn’t do existential crises The poor and…
‘I felt like I’d stumbled on a cheat code’: what is the burned haystack dating method?
Being on dating apps can feel like looking for a needle in a haystack – so Dr Jennie Young devised a technique to burn it down and find better matches…
Mantle by Romy Ash review – an exquisitely wild and exhilarating vision of the near future
Thirteen years after her celebrated debut, the author returns with a bizarre, evocative work that merges science and the surreal Romy Ash’s debut novel, Floundering, has sat on my bookshelf…
We are in a ‘fossil-fuel crisis’. Is Labor meeting the moment? – Full Story newsroom edition
It’s 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. But one of the…