The Guardian Australia - 2022-10-26

• Bruce Lehrmann trial: jury to continue deliberati­ng after saying it was unable to reach unanimous verdict
• ‘Hybrid’ cyclone expected to bring at least 100mm of rain to areas across south-eastern Australia
• Melbourne woman who impersonat­ed Lincoln Lewis receives longer sentence for stalking as appeal fails
• Man convicted of murdering Scott Johnson at gay beat claims confession made due to fear of his wife, court hears
• Radio presenter Tim Gough dies during breakfast show
• Medibank reveals hack could affect all of its 3.9 million customers
• WhatsApp messaging platform back online after global outages
• Government to crack down on NDIS provider fraud amid warning scheme will soon cost $50bn annually
• Six graphs that explain the 2022 federal budget: rosy views mugged by reality
• Jim Chalmers’ first budget comes amid a darkening economic outlook. Here’s what could go wrong
• Budget cuts and Morrison’s pledges: where are the biggest savings coming from?
• Australian budget forecasts heavy hit to economy due to floods and disasters
• Labor pledges extra $200m in Australian aid for Ukraine and $500m for veterans in budget
• This is a federal budget of no surprises – designed to be sober, to build trust in the hope of better things to come
• $75m for Indigenous voice referendum and $5m for truth-telling commission pledged in federal budget
• Labor overhauls Australia’s climate spending in budget and sounds warning on future costs
• 2022 budget: Jim Chalmers delivers national housing agreement to build 1m homes
• Lidia Thorpe says she is ‘not going anywhere’ as Senate investigat­es relationsh­ip with exbikie
• Victoria police team involved in violent arrests will put public at risk if not overhauled, Ibac says
• Narrabri evacuated as flood waters enter homes in saturated northern NSW
• ‘We need to get China’: John Kerry calls for return to bilateral climate talks
• Xi Jinping’s party purge prompts fears of greater Taiwan invasion risk
• More than 30 dead in tribal fighting on Papua New Guinea’s ‘island of love’
• Indian minister calls for abolition of 1,500 laws dating back to Raj
• James Corden admits he was ‘ungracious’ at New York restaurant
• Samuel Alito assured Ted Kennedy in 2005 of respect for Roe, diary reveals
• Chorus of outrage against Kanye West grows as antisemiti­c incidents rattle LA
• Communi-cat-ive: cats attentive to owner’s voice, research finds
• Four Palestinia­ns killed by Israeli forces in West Bank, health ministry says
• ‘Everything’s gone up’: soaring inflation hits Malawi’s market trade
• Arizona to vote on introducin­g more voter ID requiremen­ts
• Iranian security forces fire teargas as girls clash with staff at Tehran school
• Immune system-evading hybrid virus observed for first time
• Harvey Weinstein’s new trial begins in LA with multiple women to testify
• Myanmar airstrike kills 60 people at concert, says Kachin separatist group
• New Zealand Uber drivers win landmark case declaring them employees
• My small, doomed stand against Thatcher’s war on truth
• Why Aboriginal women fear NSW’s new coercive control laws could do more harm than good
• I had to fight for Bosnia. That’s how I know Ukrainians can win, and they will rebuild
• Jacob Rees-Mogg is plotting to change thousands of laws under cover of Tory chaos
• Rishi Sunak will leave the economy in a hole – Labour will have to think big to dig it out
• I keep doing quizzes to find out whether I have burnout. But I just don’t run hot enough
• The Guardian view on Rishi Sunak: profits in the City, austerity in the country
• The Guardian view on 222 lost children: shame on the Home Office
• Whitbread warns of £60m increase in costs due to inflation
• UK homes switching to pre-pay meters to keep energy bills under control
• Prices of staples such as pasta and tea soar in UK, hitting poorest hard
• HSBC reaps benefits of surging interest rates with $3.2bn profits
• FCA to examine how to regulate big tech’s financial services
• NHS hospital trusts paying hundreds of millions in interest to private firms
• Two-thirds of cattle farms in north Devon cause river pollution
• Narwhals adapting to climate crisis by delaying migration, study finds
• Australian farmers have no defences left against ‘extraordin­ary’ weather events that have become all too common
• Huge UK public support for direct action to protect environmen­t – poll
• Fungal disease spiked during Covid pandemic and pathogens spreading due to climate crisis, WHO says
• UK had at least two geneticall­y distinct human groups at end of last ice age, DNA reveals
• What is Cop15 and why does it matter for all life on Earth?
• UK to witness partial eclipse of sun by the moon
• ‘We risk another crisis’: TikTok in danger of being major vector of election misinforma­tion
• Mystery car buried in Silicon Valley mansion garden fully excavated
• Tim Paine alleges South African ball tampering followed Australian sandpaper scandal
• AFL apologises to players in concussion study after review finds it produced no published research
• Australian Olympic Committee among sporting bodies backing their Hancock Prospectin­g sponsorshi­ps
• Will the novelty of Erling Haaland scoring – again and again and again – wear off ?
• Beer, confused fans and a very angry mom: When Bo Jackson took Japan
• Daniel Tupou takes Tonga into World Cup quarter-finals with win over Wales
• Micah Richards: ‘I’m just having fun, watching football with friends. People relate to that’
• Brittney Griner ‘does not expect miracles’ at appeal over Russia sentence
• Chelsea want Brighton’s Winstanley to join Stewart on recruitmen­t team
• Jason Roy returns to England ODI squad for post-World Cup Australia series

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