‘Reform is always hard’: PM coy on tax carve outs
Startups may be able to claim greater tax concessions than initially announced in the federal budget as the government grapples with blowback to its economic reforms. Treasurer Jim Chalmers is…
I face sexist abuse every day as a female MP – misogyny is unacceptable whatever side of the aisle we’re on | Georgie Purcell
I am one of Jacinta Allan’s most vocal critics. But calling a woman a witch is not political criticism, and must be called out Like most households, mine has a…
How do you want to live? Both James Valentine and the pope have offered a challenge to humanity at a crossroads | Peter Lewis
Both public figures have urged us to be active makers of the world we want our children to inherit James Valentine meets the pope at the Pearly Gates. This is…
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was a flop – but 25 years later, it is an exquisite digital relic
Though it feels as if it has little to do with the games series it is based on, this groundbreaking film endures as a milestone for CGI animation, with a…
Vagina lasers, bananas and an awkward Cumberbatch: 10 surprising moments in Madonna’s new video
Sabrina Carpenter, a car crash, a urinal, Kate Moss and, of course, those perplexing green lasers: Confessions II has it all. Let’s make some sense of it … Madonna’s new…
David Squires on … the World Cup reimagined as Gianni Infantino’s West Side Story
As football’s greatest spectacle comes to North America, our cartoonist creates a heartwarming narrative around the Fifa president Buy a cartoon | David’s favourite works of 2025 And his latest…
Being a woman in China is getting harder. But in Chengdu, female-only spaces are flourishing
The socially relaxed city has seen a cautious feminist revival despite authorities’ growing alarm at women who shun traditional roles In a small, unassuming bookstore in south-west China, a discreet…
Disclosure Day review – close encounters of a deferred kind in Spielberg’s conspiracy spectacular
Humans have been secretly abusing aliens for almost 80 years in this big-hearted thriller starring Josh O’Connor as a worried whistleblower and a never-more-magnetic Emily Blunt as a weather forecaster…
‘Parasitic cleanses’ are the latest health trend to infest social media. But what does the evidence say? | Antiviral
Influencers are promising pills with all sorts of ‘natural’ ingredients, but do they actually work and could they cause harm? Read more in the Antiviral series Parasitic infections are fairly…
A cage-fighting arena is just what Trump’s White House lawn needed. I have a suggestion on how to use it | Marina Hyde
The president’s new Craposseum is the perfect venue for Vance, Hegseth and others to battle for favour. Fight, fight, fight indeed On behalf of the US administration, the American embassy…