Could I endure a frigid Canberra winter? Not in my wildest, electric dreams | Brigid Delaney
The best part of my day was sliding into that boiling bed! But then I’d wake at 1am like a piece of lasagne that is burnt on one side and…
How a boy’s own song about eastern rosellas went viral and was covered by Ben Lee
Miles Phillips’ hit has been viewed 1.5m times and played on the radio. The seven-year-old was inspired after feeding birds and realising one ‘main bird stood out’ Follow our Australia…
My first relationship just ended. How can I expect to find someone else when it took 15 years to find her? | Leading questions
To stay open-hearted and optimistic, you need hope, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. That’s not the same as expectation Read more Leading questions I’m nearly 30 and my first serious…
Charli xcx: Music, Fashion, Film review – slippery search into selfhood that hits just as hard as Brat
(Atlantic)How do you follow up the album that made you a star – and a caricature? In classic Charli style: with a pivot to guitar and a meta masterpiece about…
Newsroom Edition: An El Niño summer looms – we need to talk about climate change – podcast
Political and media attention this week has once again been squarely focused on One Nation’s antics. But while Pauline Hanson had her Euro summer, many of that continent’s biggest cities…
Lukhan Salakaia-Loto recalled in first Wallabies squad under coach Les Kiss
Reds lock returns after being named in Super Rugby Pacific team of year Isaac Henry earns first Australia call-up for two-Test series against Japan Lukhan Salakaia-Loto has earned an immediate…
The world is on fire, and who does Trump blame? The Canadians | Arwa Mahdawi
The US president has been complaining about Canada’s ‘filthy, polluted and unhealthy air’. Maybe he should put all that energy into tackling the climate crisis Right, that’s it: we’ve got…
OpenAI’s rogue agents are a wake-up call to risks posed by artificial intelligence | Shakeel Hashim
Hacking of Hugging Face shows we do not seem to have reliable ways to curb extremely powerful AI systems Last week Hugging Face – a company that hosts artificial intelligence…
Here’s how Andy Burnham really could end homelessness | Daniel Lavelle
Utilising empty homes, capping rents and fixing the benefits system would all help, but they’d require a serious fight In January 2017, the then mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham,…
Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner
Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis The presumption that US elections are legitimate died last…