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Five seats that could change the course of the election

In the upcoming federal election, there are five seats in regional Australia that could influence the overall result. Here's why they matter.

Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Macnamara seems like a 'very safe' Labor seat. It's not

Labor has held Macnamara, which takes in Melbourne's inner south, for more than a century, but it's now an unpredictable three-way contest between Labor, the Greens and the Liberals.

Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

'Buyer beware' on Mt Everest as guides question new rules

As Nepal moves to reform safety on Mt Everest, some of the peak's most respected guides question whether the new rules will save lives.

Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

What happens if Trump officials defy the Supreme Court?

We spoke to two experts to answer questions about what recourse the judiciary has when its authority is tested by the executive branch.

Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

The comedy contest that pushed Australia's biggest acts to stardom

RAW comedy has been running for almost 30 years, kickstarting the careers of Australia's up-and-coming stand-ups, including Ronny Chieng, Josh Thomas, Celia Pacquola and Hannah Gadsby.

Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Australiaโ€™s mini and micro-parties: how to avoid a vote you might regret in the Senate

Behind unassuming names lurk parties with some hair-raising and eccentric views. And others that are pretty much what they say they areElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our afternoon election email, free...

Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Tim Flannery: โ€˜What weโ€™re seeing is the last gasp of the patriarchyโ€™

The celebrated scientist and conservationist on the federal election, the world at 3C hotter, and why he is โ€˜very hopefulโ€™ humankind will survive the climate crisisGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastWeโ€™ve just left the sandy beach and begun clambering along a slippery rocky shore, shoes in hand, when something small catches Tim Flanneryโ€™s eye. He briefly abandons his train of thought and...

Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Amid a reckoning on domestic violence, does Australiaโ€™s piecemeal approach need a national police strategy?

Guardian Australia has asked every police jurisdiction how it assesses risk in family violence offenders to get a better understanding of how the system should workElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastPaul McDonough was released from custody and went straight home to beat his partner to death. Henry Shepherdson killed his child...

Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

A minority Labor government could be truly progressive โ€“ and the conservatives know it | Lenore Taylor

Advance and Better Australia are running twin scare campaigns against the Greens and teals, and the very idea of minority governmentElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our afternoon election email, free app...

Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Hecklers and booers at Anzac Day welcome to country โ€˜must face the full force of the lawโ€™, PM says

Anthony Albanese says disruption of ceremonies in Melbourne and Perth was โ€˜act of low cowardice on a day when we honour courage and sacrificeโ€™Polls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has condemned...

Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Election Diary: Dutton tops list of most distrusted, amid deepening voter cynicism about political leaders

And while Anzac Day brought a temporary truce in campaigning, the political leaders united to condemn neo-Nazi disruption at a dawn service in Melbourne.

Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Sharri Marksonโ€™s โ€˜exclusive inside informationโ€™ puts Coalition in poll position | Weekly Beast

Sky News host assures viewers polls favouring Labor are โ€˜inaccurateโ€™. Plus: Kyle Sandilands the face of a new anti-hate campaignSign up to get Guardian Australiaโ€™s weekly media diary as a free newsletterAs the polls continue to indicate Labor is ahead of the Coalition, Sharri Markson had the โ€œexclusive inside informationโ€ certain to cheer up her viewers on Sky News Australia.โ€œNow tonight Iโ€™m going to tell you how the...

Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Punishment in search of a crime โ€“ Franz Kafkaโ€™s The Trial at 100

โ€˜If the book we are reading doesnโ€™t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?โ€™

Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Labor takes large leads in YouGov and Morgan polls as surge continues

With the final week of the campaign about to begin, Laborโ€™s advantage in the polls continues.

Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Watching the election from afar, I canโ€™t help but wonder โ€“ is this really the best Australia can do? | Hugh Riminton

With neither leader offering any serious structural reform, Australia is on a path that leads ultimately to the malaise that has befallen the USElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our afternoon election...

Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

What the film Conclave gets right (and wrong) about electing a new pope

As Conclave movie streaming tops Australia's watch list, we go behind the scenes with its cast and a historian, while real life cardinals rush to The Vatican.

Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Hegseth had 'dirty' internet line in his office to use Signal, sources say

The unsecured internet connection is the latest revelation about Mr Hegseth's use of the app and raises the possibility that sensitive defence information could have been hacked.

Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Former Tasmanian GP extradited to Hobart to face rape charges

Tasmania police has extradited from New South Wales a former medical doctor over historical sexual abuse charges that allegedly occurred in the 1990s.

Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Rift between India and Pakistan deepens after mass tourist shooting

Relations between India and Pakistan deteriorate after an attack left 26 people dead, with New Delhi blaming Islamabad for the violence.

Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Early voting becomes new normal in Australia

More than a million people have already cast their ballots for the federal election early. Some experts say the polling day has just become the last day to vote.

Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

'I wouldn't put any of my sons in there': Hanson on daughter's Senate tilt

Pauline Hanson, the leader of One Nation, has worked in politics for nearly three decades. Now, her daughter Lee is hoping to join her โ€” running as a Senate candidate in southern Tasmania.

Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Intelligence is being gathered in this town 80 years on from WWII

Geraldton and surrounds played a critical role in Australia's defence in World War II and that is still the case today.

Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Lawsuit claims Don Dale teens forced to fight for guards' 'entertainment'

A former inmate at Darwin's notorious Don Dale Youth Detention Centre claims he was forced to "fight other children" and spend hours cutting grass with scissors in a lawsuit against the NT government.

Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Lightning strikes, flash floods cancel Sunshine Coast dawn services

Roads are closed, drivers have been rescued from vehicles, and two women have been hospitalised by lightning strikes amid the chaos of heavy rain on the Sunshine Coast overnight.

Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Darwin community grieves for supermarket stabbing victim

Linford Feick is remembered as a "true legend" with a "heart of gold", as the Darwin community gathers to remember the local grocer who was stabbed to death at his store.

Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Heckling during Welcome to Country at Anzac service condemned as 'completely disrespectful'

Gunditjmara manUncle Mark Brown was booed and heckled by members of the crowd at Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance on Friday morning.

Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Pork industry waits for vaccine three years after viral outbreak

Australia's $6 billion pork industry is still waiting for a vaccine three years after a deadly outbreak of Japanese encephalitis virus.

Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

David Speirs has gone from alternative SA premier to convicted drug supplier

Less than nine months ago, David Speirs held one of South Australia's most prominent and important jobs: the state's alternative premier and leader of the Liberal Party. Now, those titles have been replaced by "convicted drug supplier".

Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

The long and winding road to bring an NRL team to Perth

Reports suggest a Perth-based NRL team is close to reality, but is this the one that sticks? Or is it just another false dawn for long-suffering NRL fans in the west?

Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

The burgeoning rivalry that lit up the Australian swimming titles

Ella Ramsay and Tara Kinder could barely be separated all week, lining up in four finals across the Australian Open Swimming Championships in Brisbane, sharing four golds and four silvers between them.

Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Rural voters want zonal tax offset updates this election

Tax rebates for rural Australians were last updated more than 30 years ago. Voters say it is time for them to be on the election agenda.

Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Morning Mail: Candidates in uniform, election battle of the burbs, Trumpโ€™s plea to Putin

Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here, and finish your day with our Afternoon Update newsletterMorning everyone. As the Anzac Day commemorations get under way, the defence department has issued a plea for veterans running in the federal election not to use pictures of themselves in uniform in campaign material.Weโ€™re also reporting on the tussle for votes in outer suburban...

Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Gallagher seeks fourth Senate win but concedes Pocock's popularity

Katy Gallagher says her seniority as finance minister helps her advocate for Canberra. She admits independent Senator David Pocock is popular, but says her party has more muscle.

Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Live: Albanese and Dutton make Anzac Day statements as campaign continues

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will spend Anzac Day morning in Canberra, while Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is campaigning in his home city of Brisbane. Follow live.

Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

How women's running changes once the sun sets

An increasing number of women are signing up to local run clubs, even tackling their first marathon. But safety fears once the sun sets are hampering their training efforts.

Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia