The Sunday read: Fiona Wright on waiting for your parents to die to own a home
Every Sunday, we’ll bring you some of the Guardian’s best stories from the week. Stories we loved, that made us feel happy, sad, or just made us think, read by…
Many Afghan Australians felt grateful to the Liberal party. That faith is shaken | Shadi Khan Saif
Australia’s strength has never come from purity tests or cultural fear. It has come from beautiful human overlap Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking…
Last chance for Australians to send message to the universe on Voyager project’s 50th anniversary
Following in the wake of the original Golden Records, a new deep-space delivery hopes to introduce a ‘mostly harmless’ humanity to alien life Follow our Australia news live blog for…
Let a thousand stinky blossoms bloom: how Australia became the world’s corpse flower destination
Australian collections of the endangered and notoriously unpredictable flowers have popped off in recent years, as ‘personas’ like Putricia, Stinkerella and Smellanie prove a hit with nosy spectators Sign up…
‘Don’t want them back’: threat to returning ISIS brides
Australian officials don’t want women and children linked to Islamic State to return to the nation, but the threshold hasn’t been reached to bar them from receiving passports. Some 34…
Inflation to stay on hold in first data post rates hike
The year’s first round of inflation figures will provide a clearer picture on whether the Reserve Bank’s recent hike to the cash rate was a one-off or a sign of…
Prince Andrew Arrested, Illegal Land Sales, And The ISIS Brides | Scam of the week
Prince Andrew finally gets arrested, or at least the story is being sold that way, and the media instantly does what it always does, turns a system story into a…
Australia at climate crossroads as old fuel path tapers
Imagine water pooling on the bathroom tiles and starting to mop while the tap is still running. It’s an apt analogy for the world’s climate change response over the past…
Be bold in May budget, roundtable guests urge Chalmers
It’s been six months since Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ productivity roundtable and the economists, business heads and union figures who attended are feeling cautiously optimistic. Yet that’s not because of any…
Trump to raise global tariffs from 10 to 15 per cent
President Donald Trump says he will raise temporary tariffs on almost all US imports from 10 per cent to 15 per cent, the maximum level allowed under the law, after…