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Sunday12 May 2024

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  • Australian country musician Troy Cassar-Daley

    Three things with Troy Cassar-Daley
    Johnny Cash wanted to strum my guitar before he signed it

    In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects, the country music star tells us about his most cherished possession and the ‘endless pencil’ he can’t write without
  • Haai

    Critic’s pick
    Haai, the DJ making euphoric electronica with Kylie, Fred Again and Jon Hopkins

  • Same-Sex Parents book by Holly Duhig, available at Five Dock Library - the book Cumberland Council voted to ban from their library.

    Full Story podcast
    Could a council ban on same-sex parenting books be overturned?

    Nour Haydar speaks to NSW reporter Catie McLeod about the controversial decision and backlash to the move
  • ‘You don’t have to buy the most expensive products to get the health benefits.’

    Cheese, please!
    Eight everyday foods that are great for gut health – and aren’t kimchi, kombucha, ’kraut or kefir

    There’s more to looking after your internal microbiome than stuffing down the four Ks. Here are some cheap, readily available alternatives
    • Woman's face reflected in shards of broken glass<br>GettyImages-88179867

      The modern mind
      If a chronic health condition is making you feel guilty for not being ‘perfect’, try some self-compassion

      Gaynor Parkin and Amanda Wallis
    • Activist and former Walker Street resident Will Gwynne: ‘The first time I saw the film, I just collapsed.’

      ‘I just can’t move again’
      The Melbourne public housing residents fighting to save their community

    • Peter Abbott’s abusive tirade was captured on video by the subject of his anger, TV producer Samantha Isaacs, from inside her car.

      The rage epidemic
      Is our modern world fuelling aggression?

    • Daisy Lafarge photographed with her cat Uisce at home in Glasgow by Murdo MacLeod for the Observer New Review.

      ‘Despite appearances, I finally realise I am not able-bodied’
      Novelist Daisy Lafarge on her hypermobility disorder

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Opinion

  • Giorgia Meloni

    The Guardian view
    Giorgia Meloni’s Italy: the politics of ‘illiberal democracy’

    Editorial: A strike by journalists at the state broadcaster sends a disturbing signal in one of the European Union’s most important member states
  • Sonia Sodha

    Righteous fury over Gaza must allow empathy for fearful Jewish students

    Sonia Sodha
    • Andrew Rawnsley

      Urgent memo to Sir Keir Starmer: there are some offers which should be refused

      Andrew Rawnsley
    • Illustration by David Foldvari of a human getting crushed in a vice.

      With its new iPad Pro ad, Apple is offering us the thin end of the wedge

      Alex Clark
    • ‘Our homes were the nest where we raised our families. Now the nest is too big, empty. Its upkeep too demanding.’

      As we age, the space we occupy starts to shrink. Downsizing is a rollercoaster of memories

      Robyn Read
    • Smoke rises above buildings during an early morning Israeli strike on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on 11 May.

      Isolated abroad, divided at home: now Rafah poses a stark choice for Israel

      Dahlia Scheindlin

Lifestyle

  • Emma Beddington

    Should all workers get unhappiness leave? It beats awaydays, work-life balance seminars and company yoga

    Emma Beddington
  • Jennie Duggan Reid says Mike

    The moment I knew
    I was late for our date – but he waited for me in the cold winter night, under a halo of lights

  • A group of female models wearing different styles of denim jeans

    Denim fashion special
    20 ways to get good jeans

  • Woman on the Morning Walk in the Nature Playing with Young Kooikerhondje Dog Throwing him a Ball

    Ask Philippa
    I’m worried my new partner won’t love who I really am

Culture

  • Lucian Freud with Rose Boyt in 1974.

    ‘I don’t want to cancel him’
    Rose Boyt on confronting the gaze of her father, Lucian Freud

  • Josh O’Connor in La Chimera.sitting at a wooden table in a beige suit

    La Chimera review
    Josh O’Connor dazzles in brilliant tale of Italian tomb-raiders

  • Portrait of Warren Ellis<br>France, Ivry-sur-Seine, 5 august 2021 Portrait of Warren Ellis at home. Cyril Zannettacci / Agence VU

    ‘Whipped cream and banana on white bread’
    Warren Ellis on Steve Albini, Mad Max and the best sandwich

  • Miranda July.

    ‘I was in a kind of ecstatic freefall’
    Artist Miranda July on writing the book that could change your life

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  • A composite image featuring treasurer Jim Chalmers

    Federal budget 2024
    What we know so far and what to expect

    Treasurer Jim Chalmers has promised more cost-of-living relief in his 14 May budget as well as spending for students and health
  • A community walk for Molly Ticehurst around Lake Forbes on Mother’s Day

    Domestic violence
    Forbes honours Molly Ticehurst with Mother’s Day walk around lake

  • Roger Cook

    ‘A lot of asbestos in the streets’
    WA declares ‘hazmat emergency’ after tornado hits Bunbury

  • Road lined with trees in autumn

    So scarlet it was maroon
    Five places to watch Australia’s autumn leaves turn

    • ‘Climate armistice’
      US and China collaboration needed to meet net zero, says former head of CSIRO

    • Life insurance
      Some say it’s ‘genetic discrimination’, but insurers are fighting for access to these test results

    • ‘We’ve waited long enough’
      Victorian government to pay $276m for those abused in state care

    • Price, speed and Elon Musk
      Why some Australians are ditching the NBN

    • ‘A long, slow burn’
      More households on the brink as mortgage stress rises

    • ‘The cheap option’?
      Why the Gold Coast may be on track to build the most expensive light rail in the world

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Around the world

  • Keir Starmer and Natalie Elphicke pictured speaking to each other outside a building

    Exclusive
    Natalie Elphicke’s anti-strike stance ‘incompatible’ with Labour, says TUC president

    Matt Wrack describes ex-Tory’s views as ‘disgraceful’ after she blamed deaths on striking firefighters
    • Close-up of woman wearing hoop earrings

      US politics
      French government says Kristi Noem lied about cancelling meeting with Macron

    • Alabama
      Three people killed and 12 wounded in shooting at May Day party

    • ‘I look forward to proving my innocence’
      Bob Menendez corruption trial to begin

    • Bird flu
      Lack of testing may be hiding true spread of virus on US farms

    • Catalonia
      Separatist parties set to lose power in regional election, polls show

    • ‘You have to see it in context’
      A survivor explores the backstory to a Mother’s Day mass shooting

    • Pig kidney transplant
      ‘Xenotransplant’ patient dies two months later

    • Education
      Girls do better in exams at all-girls schools than mixed, research finds

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  • Aurora australis
    Southern lights ignite the sky in geomagnetic glory

    Light show has proven to be the weekend’s must-see event, offering the most ‘extreme’ celestial display in two decades
  • Joe Lycett attends the 2024 BAFTA Television Awards

    Bafta TV awards 2024
    On the red carpet with Brian Cox and Claudia Winkleman – in pictures

  • Nicola Jennings on looking up at the night sky in Britain, Ukraine and Gaza – cartoon

    Opinion cartoon
    Nicola Jennings on looking up at the night sky in Britain, Ukraine and Gaza

  • Dakota (Hair) 2004

    ‘I want to be where the energy’s at’
    Photographer Ryan McGinley on youth culture, creativity and being collected by Elton John

  • Poster for Not Of This Earth and Attack Of The Crab Monsters

    Roger Corman
    A career in pictures

  • 325 Young Lady

    The Simone Lia cartoon
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    Making study more human: how online education is creating powerful spaces for learning

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  • Jon Ronson photographed in New York City by Mike McGregor for the Observer New Review, May 2024.

    Jon Ronson
    A society that stops caring about facts is a society where anything can happen

    The broadcaster’s podcast series exploring conspiracy theories and the culture wars has struck a nerve. He explains why journalistic values are needed now more than ever
  • President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden participate in the final presidential debate at Belmont University, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, in Nashville

    US election
    The Never Trump Republicans who can’t bring themselves to back Biden

  • Financial psychotherapist Vicky Reynal in her consulting room in London.

    ‘Money pervades everything’
    The psychotherapist delving into our deep anxiety about finances

  • Risk and reward
    Life as a stunt double

  • ‘You say you are a musician, they beat you more’
    The Ukrainian sax player who survived Putin’s torture prisons

  • The Road to Freedom by Joseph E Stiglitz review
    A vision of progressive capitalism seems too little, too late

  • No Going Back
    Kristi Noem and other Trump veepstakes also-rans

  • ‘Greedy, tricky and lacking politeness’
    Francis Bacon’s contempt for the Marlborough Gallery

  • Is this actually PTSD?
    Clinicians divided over redefining borderline personality disorder

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  • Participants launch homemade rockets during the Bun Bang Fai festival in Yasothon, Thailand

    Top shots
    A rocket festival and finger wrestling

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

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