The Guardian Australia - 2022-10-20

• Health insurer Medibank enters trading halt after purported cyber attack
• Revealed: BoM rebranding and logo cost $220,000 as Plibersek shoots down weather bureau’s name change
• Severe storms forecast to lash eastern Australia in coming week, ensuring scant reprieve for flooded areas
• Death of teenage boy highlights Australia’s lack of resources for treating gaming disorder, coroner finds
• Iranian climber who competed without a hijab met by jubilant crowds in Tehran
• Man found dead in NSW flood waters as anxious communitie­s in two states watch Murray River rise
• ‘I was too close’: Texas woman gored by bison shares video to warns hikers
• Bruce Lehrmann trial: jury told they are not ‘answerable to public opinion’ as deliberati­ons begin
• Reports of teenager dying in Covid quarantine cause outcry in China
• Alcohol-induced deaths in Australia at their highest in 10 years, study finds
• Rail union’s bid to deactivate Opal card readers in Sydney delayed by court action
• The chips are down: Australia’s wet weather and supply chain woes causing potato supply issues
• Pressure mounts on Queensland’s domestic violence refuges as housing crisis bites
• ‘We’re surviving, that’s about it’: regional NSW communitie­s hit by flooding brace for more rainfall
• Pauline Hanson ordered to pay $250,000 damages for defaming Brian Burston
• Julian Assange: Australian government urged to show ‘courage’ against US over charges
• ‘You can’t help but help’: year 12 students forgo VCE study to fortify Echuca’s town hall against floods
• Facebook concedes WA court has jurisdicti­on in Andrew Forrest case over advertisin­g scams
• Out-of-control train carriage ran 1.5km through Sydney Metro tunnel in one of several safety incidents
• ‘As terrifying as it is absurd’: Greens lash facial recognitio­n plan for all NSW pubs and clubs
• ‘Rewiring the nation’: Albanese and Andrews government­s to jointly fund renewable energy zones
• ABC warns national anti-corruption commission could investigat­e journalist­s’ work
• Albanese government urged to adopt windfall profits tax after LNG exporters’ $40bn bonanza
• Inaction over lack of exercise will cost £24bn a year globally by 2030, WHO warns
• Bolivian gold miners push into national park despite country’s green rhetoric
• UK may expel Chinese diplomats over Manchester consulate violence
• Severe drought torments British Columbia, a year after devastatin­g floods
• Scientists develop more accurate predictive test for cervical cancer
• ‘Where’s the beef?’: special master says Trump’s Mar-a-Lago records claims lack substance
• Jury acquits Russian analyst of lying to FBI in Trump dossier case
• Next pandemic may come from melting glaciers, new data shows
• Mobile abortions take off ‘on wheels, at sea’ to fill gaps left by shuttered clinics
• Biden vows to codify Roe if Democrats win midterms: ‘You gotta vote’
• Conviction overturned for man who sent death threats to Jacinda Ardern
• Indonesia to demolish football stadium where scores died in crowd crush
• What do US curbs on selling microchips to China mean for the global economy?
• George Floyd’s family sues Kanye West for saying he died from drug abuse
• Liz Truss faces unrest over public spending cuts and pensions triple lock threat
• Let the UN’s light of scrutiny shine on Australia’s prisons and detention regimes
• Are Democrats messing up their midterm messaging? Our panel responds
• Do we really care more about Van Gogh’s sunflowers than real ones?
• Britannia rechained: Liz Truss enters her hostage era
• Lots of women feel unsafe running in the dark – so we give up something we love
• The Guardian view on resistance in Iran: the people v the regime
• Apple-picking, leaf-peeping, pumpkin patches: you can keep the lot. Autumn is rubbish
• Amazon to launch UK insurance comparison site
• Nestlé price rises drive sales growth to strongest in 14 years
• UK inflation rises to 10.1% on back of soaring food prices
• Asos to write off stock and cut costs as shoppers rein in spending on fashion
• Coal projects outside China becoming ‘uninsurabl­e’, says climate group
• Beach balls and lime green loos: a brief stop at Britain’s worst services
• Ministers may go ahead with nature-friendly scheme, farmers believe
• UK government’s approach to waste crime ‘close to decriminal­isation’
• Fracking caused daily earthquake­s at UK’s only active site
• Lynx, wild horses and vultures return to eastern Spain in latest rewilding project
• Concern about climate change shrinks globally as threat grows, survey shows
• Microphone­s dropped into ocean off Greenland to record melting icebergs
• UK shows ‘alarming lack of progress’ in hitting vital 30x30 nature target
• New Jersey latest state to sue oil companies over climate misinforma­tion
• Discovered in the deep: the rainbow fish that’s born female and becomes male
• Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling
• ‘They said: aren’t you that porn star?’ The woman hunting down image-based abuse
• Reckoning beckons as athlete voices grow louder over sportswash­ing sponsors
• Michael Hooper in line for swift Wallabies recall after mental health break
• Diamonds force Constellat­ion Cup decider with thrashing of New Zealand
• Cricketers free to boycott Aramco sponsorshi­p at T20 World Cup
• NBA opening night: Warriors top Lakers to open title defense as Celts edge 76ers
• England suffer blow to T20 World Cup hopes as Reece Topley flies home
• Antonio Conte steeled to do battle with Manchester United ‘monster’
• Shaquille O’Neal: ‘Players now don’t like contact ... I’d just beat you up’
• Frank Lampard introduces fines system to improve discipline at Everton
• Jim Irsay broke the NFL billionair­e’s code by turning on Dan Snyder. It’s about time
• Not them again! Footballer­s who are bogey players for one particular club

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