Is Australian music at risk of extinction? Here’s what the data tells us
Forty years of Aria chart history shows big changes to our listening habits – and local artists have a huge fight ahead Aria music quiz: how well do you know…
Writing is an exercise in the art of persuasion. If we use AI we lose the art | Alan Finkel
Every reader deserves to be informed about whether what they are reading is human or AI A few weeks ago, Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an academic in political science at Macquarie…
My father spent a lifetime fighting for women to be pastors. His OAM proves change is slow but possible | Julianne Schultz
Social change requires patience, as my 94-year-old father has found out, as he pushed against the status quo in his bid to change the Lutheran church All around the world…
The Guardian view on the French presidential election campaign: only the far right will profit from division | Editorial
Mainstream politicians should remember that in the battle to defeat Jordan Bardella or Marine Le Pen, unity is strength Less than a year before the most important French presidential election…
Australia’s Kurtis Marschall beats pole vault king Duplantis: ‘I didn’t mean to spoil the show’
Mondo’s three-year unbeaten run ended at Diamond League meet Cameron Myers and Matthew Denny also secure podium finishes Kurtis Marschall has pulled off one of the upsets of the sporting…
Richard Scolyer shares his ‘greatest lesson’ in open letter to Australians before his death
‘My intention is for this letter to be published upon my passing – as my final farewell,’ famed cancer researcher writes Richard Scolyer, cancer researcher and former Australian of the…
Aria music quiz: how well do you know the Australian charts?
We’ve looked at the Aria charts since 1998 to see who Australians can’t stop listening to. Take our quiz to find out if you know your chart toppers and fan…
A high court justice warned of US-style judge ‘stacking’ and created a new front in Australia’s culture wars
Justice Robert Beech-Jones has accused the Samuel Griffith Society of a US-style attempt to stack the high court with conservatives, exposing a partisan rift in the process Follow our Australia…
Australia’s housing market is cooling – but a Sydney flat with a broken shower still costs nearly $1m
Linly and Lena needed steady incomes, Linly’s parents’ help, the federal 5% deposit scheme and NSW’s stamp duty discount to buy a two-bedroom flat in Ashfield Get our breaking news…
Middle East crisis live: Israel says it has struck targets in central and western Iran
IDF says it struck military targets in fresh attacks launched after Donald Trump called Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu urging him not to strike back Full report: Iran launches missiles…