The Guardian Australia - 2024-08-20

• Coalition secures amendments, will vote for Labor bill to appoint administra­tors to CFMEU
• Brittany Higgins will no longer give evidence at Linda Reynolds’ defamation trial, lawyer tells court
• ‘Like a Taylor Swift concert’: sleepless trainspott­ers spend six hours enjoying Sydney metro on busy opening day
• Vaults of ambition: shock find under London Museum enchants its builders
• Speakman backs NSW Liberals taking legal action over council election deadline
• Britons and Americans among missing after yacht sinks off Sicily in storm
• Writer and Russia critic Masha Gessen claims Australia has ‘functional­ly denied’ them a visa
• Mark Simmons’ ship joke named funniest of Edinburgh fringe
• ‘If trouble arrives on my doorstep it will be dealt with’: Wieambilla killer’s chilling email warning to police
• Labor calls Peter Dutton a ‘sook’ in parliament for his continued attacks on Gaza visa process
• Rare blue supermoon to light up Monday night sky, leaving stargazers over the moon
• Sydney Metro welcomes commuters aboard new undergroun­d city section
• Home linked to underworld figure among Melbourne properties set ablaze in suspicious fires
• Booktopia resumes trading after being sold to owner of online camera store digiDirect
• Gambling levy proposed to help wean Australian media companies off betting ad addiction
• Asic taking down average of 20 scam websites a day
• After the riots, Keir Starmer should tell us the truth about our country. This is why he won’t
• Courageous Aboriginal women have shared deeply personal, heartbreak­ing stories. Have those in power heard?
• Macron hoping new round of talks can break French government deadlock
• Wealth tax on super-rich could raise £1.5tn globally, campaigner­s say
• Chinese and Philippine ships collide near disputed Sabina Shoal in South China Sea
• Fish thieves not welcome: Galicians coin term for stereotypi­cal Madrid tourist
• UK sperm donations being exported despite 10-family limit
• Tens of thousands of activists prepare protests over Gaza war at Democratic National Convention
• ‘A revolution is building’: can young people force change across Africa?
• Final artwork in Banksy animal series removed by London Zoo
• Black children in England and Wales four times more likely to be strip-searched, figures show
• 140 women in England receive payout for vaginal mesh implant complicati­ons
• Man arrested after woman dies in triple stabbing in Manchester
• Biden to give possible swan song at Democratic convention amid Gaza protests
• Jay Slater’s mother says internet trolls ‘terrorisin­g’ her after son’s death
• ‘Wherever you have drugs, you have guns’: why is there an epidemic of violence in the Caribbean?
• First Thing: Blinken arrives in Israel for 11thhour talks on Gaza ceasefire deal
• A new start after 60: I became a model at 69 – when people suddenly started to notice me
• Lights, camera, comfy furnishing­s: why the ‘beige chic’ of Nancy Meyers is having a revival
• My partner and I only have sex three times a year - and I am frustrated
• The end of menopause: would women be healthier and happier if they menstruate­d for ever?
• ‘The land is becoming desert’: drought pushes Sicily’s farming heritage to the brink
• The factional anthem: why dictators, leaders and protesters have fought over Beethoven’s Ninth
• Television­s, fridges and water pumps: why solar power means a brighter future for Gujarat’s salt farmers
• ‘Peter Capaldi was punched off his chair’: Fifty years of explosive theatre company Paines Plough
• A hard day’s night: life with the food workers who are up all hours
• Honey, I lost the kids: is generation Z done with Disney?
• The big idea: are we all beginning to have the same taste?
• A poem by Lang Leav: ‘Cabramatta was dubbed Australia’s drug capital. But it was also a place of refuge’
• Logie awards 2024: ‘television’s most axed man’ Larry Emdur takes gold
• And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: A Journey Through Global Music by Joe Boyd review – the Proust of music
• Noah’s Ark review – Old Testament’s got talent in biblical kids’ animation
• Alain Delon: how family feud brought Shakespear­ean tragedy to final years
• Cadejo Blanco review – compelling performanc­es in slow-burn drug gang thriller
• Clandestin­a review – artists fighting fascists in Portugual in the 1950s – and the present day
• Lore review – Brit-horror anthology tells its gruesome stories around the campfire
• I fled Gaza to Australia not by choice but as a matter of survival. How can I be a security risk?
• Why dismissing the loudness of modern life is the key to regaining the stillness of the present
• My Barcelona is being destroyed by mass tourism – but kicking visitors out isn’t the answer
• The Guardian view on ageing: the science of longevity is advancing
• The door to an Australian tech tax is clearly ajar. Can Labor make it happen?
• Bombed hospitals, buried children: we have become numb to Gaza’s destructio­n
• What I learned about loss and joy from Joan Didion, my mentor 60 years my senior
• Barratt pushes ahead with takeover of Redrow despite watchdog’s concerns
• Energy bills could rise to average of £1,714 a year in Great Britain from October
• Victims of Norton Motorcycle­s pension scandal receive £9.4m compensati­on
• Busy August bank holiday road getaway expected as Britons go ‘day-trip crazy’
• Race for UK banks to repay £100bn in Covid loans could help savers
• Labour’s autumn budget must reverse ‘decade of decline’ in UK infrastruc­ture
• Interest rate cut fuels immediate upturn in UK property market
• The Guardian view on hyperlocal­ism: communitie­s need more oomph
• ‘You feel a bit mass-produced’: donorconce­ived people on the export of UK sperm
• Linking two realms: efforts to tap real-life potential of lucid dreams advance
• What is a blue supermoon and when will it appear in UK skies?
• Premier League: 10 talking points from the opening weekend’s action
• Caitlin Clark breaks WNBA rookie assist record as Fever continue playoff push
• Wallabies remain well off the pace amid hopes a playmaker can unlock the attack
• Banged-up Blues find a new way to win and salvage their splutterin­g season
• Kasia Niewiadoma wins Tour de France Femmes by four seconds in epic finale
• Vuelta: Groves takes stage, Van Aert red jersey as Tarling avoids injury in crash
• London Spirit win Women’s Hundred final after chasing down Welsh Fire
• Sense of chaos continues as confused Boehly still searches for Chelsea’s soul
• Roberto De Zerbi’s rebuilt Marseille side can offer PSG a real title race
• Partick’s Courtney Stewart waited three hours for ambulance after head injury

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