Five Great Reads: burnout myths busted, football doping 1960s-style, and paedophile hunting on the dark web
Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales Get this in your inbox every weekend. Sign up for Five Great Reads here.…
‘This idea that we can now eat our clothes is pretty revolutionary’: how to give unwanted garments a second life
Half of unwanted clothes in Australia end up in landfill. Considered buying, repair and recycling garments can help reduce that waste Change by degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living…
Pauline Hanson is already distorting policy and politics on immigration. It’s threatening to take us down a dark road
Labor is cutting immigration, and the Coalition is talking about ‘good and bad’ migrants, as One Nation’s rise influences the debate Get our breaking news email, free app or daily…
‘His superpower is shamelessness’: Tim Wilson has big ambitions – for Australia and for himself
To supporters, the shadow treasurer is proof the Liberals can win back urban heartlands. But is a clash of ideologies looming? Get our breaking news email, free app or daily…
Claims of bikies, strippers and drugs in the CFMEU threaten to end Jacinta Allan’s premiership. Can she survive?
A report alleging the Victorian branch of the union had turned into a ‘crime syndicate’ has sparked a war between the state government and a corruption fighter Get our breaking…
Australia-US minerals deal underpinned decision to allow Alcoa to keep clearing WA forest, document reveals
Document also shows US miner had been unlawfully clearing land for 15 years despite warnings from department Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Australian…
‘A joyful day’: final piece of Sagrada Familia’s central tower put in place
Completion of glass cross brings Antoni Gaudí’s church to maximum final height of 172.5m, 144 years after work began The final piece of the central tower of Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia…
Is the share market headed toward a ‘SaaS-pocalypse’ – and what would that mean?
Software companies are facing major disruption from AI and investors are pulling back, wiping off billions in value – but does it spell the end for software-as-a-service? Get our breaking…
Nightly raids and violent beatings: Australia urged to accept citizens trapped in Syria as conditions in Roj camp deteriorate
Aid workers say the camp where 34 women and children are being held are ‘dire’ and present more risk than if they were repatriated Get our breaking news email, free…
Sentence extended but no jail for NT hit-and-run driver Jake Danby who called victims ‘oxygen thieves’
Jake Danby’s sentence for hitting two Aboriginal men with his car, killing one, was extended from five months to two years in home detention Get our breaking news email, free…