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Tilt comes after Michelle Landry announced she will not recontest her Queensland seat of Capricornia Get our daily political email, free app or daily news podcast The Nationals leader, Matt Canavan, will run in a lower house Queensland seat at the next federal election, in a move that may see him face off with Pauline Hanson’s chief of staff. The announcement follows the retirement of the Capricornia MP Michelle Landry, and could result in a contest against James Ashby in a major battle for regi

Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here, and finish your day with our Politics, really newsletter Good morning. Today we focus on the former prominent New South Wales Liberal Mark Jones’s key role in overhauling the selection and vetting process for One Nation candidates determined to beat his former colleagues. Overseas, street protests have boiled over into violent unrest in cities across Europe. And Republicans and Democrats are making a big push in key

My relationship with Sydney’s delayed metro extension is complicated. But on Friday, as I caught a regular bus home, I daydreamed of moving – one more time I’ve already been awake for six hours when I jump off the metro back at Bankstown station at 8.33am on Friday. It’s the first day of driverless trains running on the extension from Bankstown to Sydenham and I was on the first service heading into the city at 4.31am. The trip on the new track took just 21 minutes in the wee hours. Now I’m expl

Bardon has largely remained in popular consciousness as the synonymous hero and martyr of the art movement’s origin story. But a new biography is unravelling the myth, and the madness, behind the tale Like many foundation stories, the white Australian narrative about the birth of the globally celebrated Western Desert Aboriginal “dot painting” movement is steeped in myth. For decades it has gone like this. In 1971 a young, eccentric middle-class art teacher from Sydney, Geoffrey Bardon, arrives

Sarah Henderson calls Hugh Marks after fiery estimates clash. Plus: the Offsiders presenter’s many paid partnerships Want to get this in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for the Weekly Beast media newsletter here Sarah Henderson has admitted that she wrongly accused a late Palestinian journalist, Roshdi Sarraj, who filed video for the ABC from Gaza, of holding “a Hamas ID card” in a fiery Senate estimates hearing this week. The clash between the Liberal senator and ABC executives led to a headli

Being in a same-sex relationship can make you weirdly invisible. Queer identity shouldn’t be treated as abnormal My boyfriend and I invented a game on our recent trip to Italy. We called it “invisible gays”, which might have been an attempt at some kind of word play around “gays” and “gaze” – but I was on holiday and feeling lazy, so I didn’t push it. The game began when one night he took me out to a little trattoria to celebrate my birthday. It was a warm night, and fairy lights were entangled

I’m hopeful these elections will be a win for democracy rather than dictatorship, for peace rather than war, and humanity rather than hubris Recently I made my own envelope out of a sheet of paper and sticky tape, signed it and affixed a sticker. Then I took it to my nearest Australia Post shop in Sydney and mailed it. In other words, I voted from abroad in the US midterm elections. Because my last place of residence in the US was the state of Virginia, I can register to vote and request a ballo

Central bank forecast that unemployment might have to move even higher makes it clear how much more the RBA cares about inflation than full employment Follow our Australian politics live blog for latest updates Get our daily political email, free app or daily news podcast Back in July, the June inflation figures killed off chances of a rate rise; yesterday, however, the September inflation figures all but guarantee a rate rise next week. The September figures are a bit quirky because the Bureau

Video captured at Bondi police station shows the moment Beau Lamarre-Condon handed himself in on 23 February 2024 at 10.37am. Lamarre-Condon is accused of murdering Jesse Baird and his boyfriend Luke Davies in Baird's Paddington share house on 19 February 2024. He has pleaded not guilty Beau Lamarre-Condon tells jury he wanted to report deaths but friend encouraged him to dispose of bodies Continue reading...

At a late-night Senate estimates hearing, Western Australian independent senator Fatima Payman accuses the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, of being 'petty' by not granting her additional staff members after she defected from the Labor party in 2024, driving the point home amid escalating threats of political violence. Payman said she had requested an additional adviser, in line with other independent political offices, two years ago but the prime minister had yet to process the requ

Blake Mackenzie, a 12-year-old from Newcastle, has won the top youth prize at the Australian Poetry Slam for his reflections on artificial intelligence. The winning piece, performed at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday night, covered doomscrolling, loneliness and intellectual atrophy. The Australian Poetry Slam competition is now in its 22nd year. It ran 65 heats in 60 towns and cities across the country to find 16 finalists. As the youth winner, Blake shares a prize package worth $20,000 with Al

The mother of the youngest complainant wept on the stand after being presented with a note written by her son alleging something happened at Alan Jones's property at Fitzroy Falls. As the prosecution questioned the mother, she told the court she had “trusted” Jones with her then teenage son. She was also asked why she stayed in contact with the broadcaster after her son told her about the alleged indecent assault. Guardian Australia’s media correspondent Amanda Meade joins host Nour Haydar to un

The 2026 Victorian election is shaping up to be a consequential state poll for the nation. Despite going up against a 12-year-old Labor government beleaguered by allegations of corruption, the Coalition's road to victory is fraught with challenges. With three-way races across the state, involving a resurgent One Nation and the Greens, the outcome is far from certain. Guardian Australia's Victorian state correspondent Benita Kolovos presents this guide to winning the election Continue reading...