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Window for Myanmar quake rescues closing as Russian and Chinese teams arrive

In Myanmar, there are reports of screaming coming from piles of rubble as the window to find earthquake survivors is quickly diminishing.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Rain forecast to continue across Queensland prolonging flood risk

The weather bureau says there is potential to see further flood level rises depending where the rain falls over the next several days.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Gym allegedly told queer man his dancing made others 'uncomfortable'

World Gym Ipswich has refused to respond to allegations it discriminated against one of its clients on the basis of his sexual orientation.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Starc takes five-wicket haul in IPL showdown with Cummins and Head

Mitchell Starc stars with the ball for Delhi Capitals in their seven-wicket victory over a Sunrisers Hyderabad team captained by Pat Cummins in the Indian Premier League.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Researchers take a more positive approach to trans identity

Australian researchers have developed a world-first scale to measure an almost universal experience for trans adolescents and adults – gender euphoria – that could have significant implications for mental health.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Teens allegedly ram police car, hit speeds of 250kph in Melbourne

It is alleged machetes and knives were found in a stolen car that was recorded driving at excessive speeds after ramming a police car in Mooroolbark.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

CA gives Test stars clear gap before next summer's Ashes series

Cricket Australia confirms its line-up of international matches for the 2025/26 season, avoiding a repeat of last year's disjointed scheduling for its Test players.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Live: ASX set to fall after Wall Street tumbles on stagflation fears

Wall Street tumbled 2 per cent on Friday taking global markets with it. The ASX 200 is priced for a sharp fall as well today. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Adelaide young boys found interstate after missing for 17 days

Two young brothers who were reported missing from Adelaide more than a fortnight ago and were last seen in Canberra has been found safe and well, police say.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Live: AEC warns unsolicited postal votes is 'number one complaint'

Anthony Albanese is set to join West Australian Premier Roger Cook in announcing a joint $355 million upgrade to the St John of God Midland Public Hospital. Follow live.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Space rocket explodes seconds after take-off but described as a 'success'

German startup Isar Aerospace says this was an initial test as part of a project aimed at kickstarting satellite launches from Europe.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

GP's desperate plea to keep outback town's only clinic open

A remote Queensland GP says he is quitting for the sake of his mental health as he struggles to find someone to take over.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Morning Mail: Gina Rinehart’s Maga message, Trump ‘pissed off’ with Putin, daunting search for quake survivors

Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here, and finish your day with our Afternoon Update newsletterGood morning. As campaigning for the federal election gets under way, Guardian Australia is launching a new, six-part podcast series examining the life and influence of Australia’s richest person, mining boss Gina Rinehart. Gina explores how Rinehart became an Australian success story...

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Woman accused of stabbing her three children in their bedrooms

Police officers found a 47-year-old woman, a 16-year-old girl, a 13-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy with stab wounds at the scene in Baulkham Hills after being contacted by the children's father.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Homes evacuated, livelihoods washed away by floods in outback Queensland

Graziers say more aviation fuel is desperately needed as helicopters play a key role in evacuations, supply drops, and mustering.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Veteran wins bid to reinstate gun license after denying mass shooting threats

A veteran who allegedly threatened mass shootings at Mardi Gras and Centrelink has had his gun license reinstated after a tribunal found he posed no "real risk" to public safety.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Brisbane 2032 is no longer legally bound to be ‘climate positive’. Will it still leave a green legacy?

Brisbane 2032 was supposed to be the first ‘climate-positive’ Olympic Games. But a quiet change to the host contract puts the commitment in doubt.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Show your working: how the ‘open science’ movement tackles scientific misconduct

‘Open science’ is a radical shift from traditional research practices. But it can help research integrity in several ways.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

‘It is a seriously difficult role and only getting harder’: school principals speak about stress, violence and abuse in their jobs

In a new survey, one principal reported how a major source of distress is parents behaving in an ‘unreasonable manner’.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Some Gen Zs are taking a ‘micro-retirement’. It’s one way to address burnout – but it comes with risks

Gen Z have not invented the career break. But the trend of ‘micro-retirement’ isn’t necessarily the same thing as a sabbatical.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

What are caretaker conventions and how do they limit governments during election periods?

Election campaigns invariably provoke accusations of government breaching caretaker conventions. Here’s what governments can and cannot do.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Uncertainty and pessimism abound. Will fear be enough to push Dutton into office?

The Liberal leader goes into this election presenting a particularly bleak worldview. Whether voters are in step with that view remains to be seen.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Can we recreate a lost world? In Tasmania, anything could happen

The thylacine might walk again. Or Lake Pedder might rise again. The possibility of ecological restoration in the island state plays into the appeal of going back in timeSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereThere is something about Tasmania that makes it a place where people want to restore the past, and not just because Tasmanians still regularly report seeing...

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Art for art’s sake? How NZ’s cultural organisations can maintain integrity and still make money

Arts and culture are neither luxuries nor commodities, but integral parts of a thriving society. Balancing profitability with artistic integrity demands new ways of thinking.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

‘A female Donald Trump’: how Gina Rinehart is pushing the Maga message in Australia

Australia’s richest person has close ties with the US president’s ‘Trumpettes’ and has even styled her company headquarters with Maga-inspired designsListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe founder of a key support group for the US president has praised Gina Rinehart...

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

How the architect who made modern Brisbane shaped the city’s 2032 Olympics stadium plans

Michael Rayner, who designed city’s skyscrapers, bridges and cultural venues, says new stadium will revitalise ‘rarely used’ parkElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAs plans for the 2032 Olympic Games were thrown into limbo last year, architect Michael Rayner began to bend the ear of local politicians and Olympics officials about his...

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Bullied, slut-shamed, overworked: why Australia could lose an ‘entire generation’ of school principals

A new report details ‘really inappropriate’ student behaviour as educators point to an alarming cultural shift playing out in the classroomElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAngela Falkenberg has been called a “bitch dog” while principal of a primary school. She has colleagues who have been slut-shamed, she says, and threatened with...

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Australia’s best photos of the month – March 2025

Cyclone Alfred drives wild seas, a seagull eclipses the moon, and our Kylie performs on a trapeze: Guardian Australia looks at some of the month’s best imagesOf tinkerers and dreamers: striving to be the fastest on the salt on Lake Gairdner Continue reading...

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Labor gains lead in post-budget Newspoll; would be one seat short of majority in YouGov MRP poll

The gains for Labor are probably in spite of a poorly rated federal budget.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

View from The Hill: Dutton has questions to answer on gas; Albanese has supermarket answer still hunting for the problem

As the campaign officially begins both leaders run into problems selling their policies.

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: The Conversation (Australia) favicon The Conversation (Australia)

Bandt says Greens policy ‘adopted’ by Albanese – as it happened

This blog is now closed.Albanese promises action on supermarkets ‘taking the piss’ as Dutton criticises ‘wet lettuce’ approachAnywhere but Canberra: Australian voters on what matters to themGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabor ‘engaging through officials’ on Trump tariffsOn Donald Trump and the impending imposition of tariffs for what the US president is calling “liberation day”, Albanese...

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Australia election 2025 live updates: new poll puts Labor on cusp of majority government; PM in Canberra as Dutton campaign lands in Sydney

Peter Dutton in Sydney as day three of election campaign under way. Follow all the day’s news liveSupermarkets to be liable for ‘heavy fines’ as Labor promises price gouging crackdownAnywhere but Canberra: Australian voters on what matters to themGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabor ‘engaging through officials’ on Trump tariffsOn Donald Trump and the impending imposition of tariffs for what...

Published on: March 30, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Cross-border complexity in town that straddles two states

If the Queensland Cross-Border Commissioner has his way, Mungindi may finally become the town where the "border doesn't exist" and the endless challenges facing locals could be resolved.

Published on: March 29, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia

Two may be company, but for a rising number of Australians, three (or more) isn’t a crowd

Polls and studies show younger people are showing more interest in polyamory and non-traditional relationships“I didn’t know what polyamory was,” Melissa* says. “I didn’t have the vocabulary. I Googled it a few times to understand.” Melissa was on the “relationship escalator”. She got married, had a child, then the no longer happy couple split.So she started exploring her options. First stop? Singles’ groups.Sign up...

Published on: March 29, 2025 | Source: Guardian Australia favicon Guardian Australia

Independents 'pay it forward' in place of a party machine

Sitting federal independents have hit the hustings outside their own electorates, mentoring and campaigning for those who hope to follow in their footsteps to Canberra.

Published on: March 29, 2025 | Source: ABC Australia favicon ABC Australia