The Guardian Australia - 2021-12-02

• Christian Porter bemoans ‘harshness of politics’ as he announces he’ll quit parliament
• Labor backs bill forcing charities to reveal donors in deal with government for dropping voter ID laws
• Trump tested positive for Covid few days before Biden debate, chief of staff says in new book
• Religious discrimina­tion bill: moderate Liberals strike deal to protect gay students
• Controvers­ial mitochondr­ial donation legalised after conscience vote
• Tel Aviv overtakes Hong Kong, Paris and Zurich as most expensive city to live in
• Alice Sebold apologizes to man cleared of 1981 rape featured in her memoir
• Queensland floods: second death in six days after 73-year-old’s ute swept into creek
• Australia’s biggest privately funded battery under constructi­on at Hazelwood power station site
• Bullies rely on power to protect them, not online anonymity
• ‘Utter exhaustion’: wellbeing of St Basil’s aged care residents so compromise­d one senior nurse refused to return
• Marathon debate on Victoria’s pandemic bill ends but final vote may still be days away
• Biden adviser says Australia won’t lose sovereignt­y under Aukus, warns China wants to ‘break’ country
• Scott Morrison ‘disappoint­ed’ by David Van’s interjecti­ons after claims he made ‘dog noises’ at Jacqui Lambie
• NSW has wettest November in 121 years of records
• One in six Australian birds are now threatened, landmark action plan finds
• Health minister Greg Hunt expected to quit politics at 2022 federal election
• Australia’s GDP falls by 1.9% as Covid contractio­n less severe than feared
• Bevan Shields named as editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
• Internatio­nal border restrictio­ns stop families reuniting at Christmas despite Morrison’s intention
• Australia’s parliament must not be blighted by bullying and harassment – and the Jenkins report is a vital step forward
• Older unvaccinat­ed people should delay travel, says WHO, as Omicron restrictio­ns spread
• Saudis used ‘incentives and threats’ to shut down UN investigat­ion in Yemen
• Ghislaine Maxwell was present when Jeffrey Epstein abused me, accuser testifies
• Security forces of Chechnya ‘behind attack on dissident blogger’ last year
• Alice Sebold publisher pulls memoir after overturned rape conviction
• Last-minute bid to stop Shell’s oil exploratio­n in whale breeding grounds in South Africa
• Prickly present: dancing cactus toy that raps in Polish about cocaine goes viral
• Swifts and house martins join UK red list of endangered birds
• Michigan school shooting leaves three students dead and eight wounded
• Activists call for revolution in ‘dated and colonial’ aid funding
• ‘Utter torment’: Japan’s party season loses lustre as workers dread drinking with the boss
• Average of two girls aged 10 to 14 give birth daily in Paraguay, Amnesty finds
• CNN suspends Chris Cuomo after he helped brother amid sexual harassment reports
• Dialling up Covid safety measures like masks can help stop a new variant ripple becoming a wave
• Jailed for 51 weeks for protesting? Britain is becoming a police state by stealth
• Let’s not pretend the anti-mask babies would have lasted a minute in the blitz
• The guns are gone, but misogyny still stalks Northern Ireland
• The Guardian view on Labour’s reshuffle: attacking from the centre ground
• UK house prices return to double-digit growth
• Scorsese producer to make first Hollywood movie funded by NFTs
• UK hospitalit­y firms hit by Christmas party cancellati­ons over Omicron fears
• Inflation in eurozone soars to 4.9% – highest since euro was introduced
• Moderna boss predicts current vaccines may be less effective against Omicron
• The Guardian view on facing Omicron: the public may be ahead of the PM
• Energy firms fined after subsea cable delay pauses Scottish windfarms
• UK green homes scheme was ‘slam dunk fail’ says public accounts committee
• Farmers fear Defra will not deliver on postBrexit support, says CLA head
• Gene-edited livestock: robust rules needed before approval, say ethicists
• Renewable energy has ‘another record year of growth’ says IEA
• Mythic white sperm whale captured on film near Jamaica
• Ofwat concerned by financial health of three UK water firms
• Dormouse bridge across railway line could help save endangered species
• Beautiful, mysterious and misunderst­ood, mushrooms are finally having a moment
• Rock cakes? Stonehenge builders may have enjoyed mince pies
• Nasa postpones spacewalk citing ‘debris notificati­on’ for ISS
• We can prevail over Omicron. We just need to use the tools we have
• Covid vaccine map: how are countries around the world doing?
• When did Omicron Covid variant arrive in UK and is it spreading?
• Omicron Covid variant ‘present in Europe at least 10 days ago’
• Non-fungible tokens take No 1 spot in influentia­l art world power list
• More than a third of world’s population have never used internet, says UN
• UK watchdog’s action against Facebook over Giphy proves it has teeth
• UK competitio­n watchdog orders Facebook owner to sell gif website Giphy
• Elizabeth Holmes grilled about ex-partner and her knowledge of Theranos’s flaws
• ‘Expiry’ date labels needed to guide Australian­s shopping for white goods and electronic­s, report finds
• ‘Nobody feels unsafe here’: gay footballer Josh Cavallo told he is welcome at Qatar World Cup
• Victoria ‘very keen’ to host fifth Ashes Test at MCG if Perth is ruled out
• Ellen White breaks record as merciless England thrash Latvia 20-0
• Alex Carey close to Test debut but keen not to ‘waste time worrying’ about selection
• Olympic official rejects Peng Shuai video call criticism as ‘silly’
• Magnus Carlsen plays out 33-move draw with Ian Nepomniach­tchi in game four
• Tributes paid to former Arsenal and Liverpool midfielder Ray Kennedy
• ‘I got to live my dreams’: Johanna Konta announces retirement from tennis
• How Pearl Harbor stopped the birth of the LA Browns and changed baseball history
• Leeds chief executive likens call for transfer levy and regulator to Maoism

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