The Guardian Australia - 2022-10-05

• Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyer accuses Brittany Higgins of ‘erasing’ details from night of alleged rape
• Andrew Thorburn resigns as Essendon CEO after one day over links to controvers­ial church
• ‘Shocked and saddened’: Queensland attorney general concerned by police failure to investigat­e alleged gang rape
• Interest rates rise again as Reserve Bank lifts cash rate to 2.6%
• Image of Bruce Saunders’ legs in woodchippe­r kept murder accused awake at night, court hears
• House prices fall as Sydney owners make loss on resales to escape high interest rates
• Jeremy Paxman got Parkinson’s diagnosis after doctor saw him on TV
• Judge adjourns hearing of tax whistleblo­wer Richard Boyle for one day
• The Onion defends right to parody in very real supreme court brief supporting local satirist
• Dominic Perrottet denies teal threat is behind NSW ministers’ bid to move to lower house
• Queensland lab could have tested more DNA samples from crime scenes for less than $1m, inquiry hears
• ‘Unspeakabl­e trauma’: police in Queensland and NSW failed to investigat­e alleged gang rape of 14-year-old girl, records show
• NSW braces for more flash flooding as wet weather lashes Australia’s east coast
• Dating apps rife with sexual violence, Australian study reveals, amid calls for better user safeguards
• UK taps Alexander Downer for ‘independen­t’ oversight of asylum seeker deportatio­n plan
• Australia announces plan to halt extinction crisis and save 110 species
• Fossil fuels in schools: industry faces pushback in fight for hearts and minds of next generation
• Teen granted bail after being charged over NSW crash that killed five high school students
• Optus data breach: how to protect yourself from credit fraud
• Big issues at play could cause the RBA to make smaller cash rate hikes
• A shift on stage-three tax cuts would move the first Albanese budget from B for boring to B for big
• North Korea fires missile over Japan prompting warnings for residents to shelter
• Pakistan’s PM says rival Imran Khan is ‘biggest liar on earth’
• Failure to extend Yemen ceasefire leaves millions at risk, say charities
• Liz Truss refuses to rule out real-terms benefits cuts
• Emmanuel Macron’s top adviser charged with conflict of interest
• ‘She say anything about me?’ Trump raised Ghislaine Maxwell link with aides
• Paris Métro paper ticket reaches end of the line after more than 120 years
• Kanye West stirs controvers­y in ‘White Lives Matter’ T-shirt at Paris fashion week
• Flooding, outages, confusion: Florida reels as Hurricane Ian death toll rises
• Newlywed among four women chosen to run Antarctic outpost
• Phoenix clinic devises workaround for abortion care after Arizona enforces ban
• Monster 2,554lb pumpkin breaks US record
• Worldwide fertiliser shortage prompts Peru to turn to bird poo
• Planetary rover once intended for Mars tested in Milton Keynes quarry
• C of E must welcome gay people or face questions in parliament, says MP
• Taiwan’s military recruitmen­t pool shrinking due to low birthrate
• Ransomware hunters: the self-taught tech geniuses fighting cybercrime
• There are real alternativ­es to widespread pesticide use. Australia must embrace the change
• A real estate agent data breach would be devastatin­g for renters. They collect too much personal informatio­n
• How whiteness poses the greatest threat to US democracy
• I yearned for my mother, but I settled for the next best thing: her home
• Squid Game, Blackpink, kimchi pancakes … How did South Korea become such a world power?
• Kwasi Kwarteng may have U-turned, but huge spending cuts are still coming
• The Guardian view on a Tory U-turn: the problem goes beyond tax
• Guardian Essential poll: one in two Australian­s want stronger privacy laws after Optus breach
• Kwarteng bringing forward debt plan could calm markets, says top Tory MP
• Legal & General seeks to reassure investors amid pension fund volatility
• Ukraine ‘must revamp labour laws and step up privatisat­ion to fix economy’
• British shoppers likely to spend £4.4bn less on non-essentials during Christmas period
• The Guardian view on Qatar’s World Cup: gestures are not enough
• John Lewis plans ‘buy back or take back’ schemes in all product categories by 2025
• Cop27 host Egypt warns UK not to backtrack from climate agenda
• Investment zones could be allowed in England’s national parks
• Former environmen­t secretary urges successor not to drop nature-friendly farming scheme
• We are at a crossroads in history: Africa can and must be a leader in clean energy
• Here’s a bright idea to improve accountabi­lity in the water sector
• ‘Rage, but also joy and completene­ss’: bringing New Zealand’s stolen ancestors home
• People with recent dementia diagnosis found to have higher suicide risk
• Swedish geneticist wins Nobel prize for Neandertha­l research
• The big idea: do we all experience the world in the same way?
• Google UK staff earned average of more than £385,000 each in 18 months
• Google Stadia is going offline for good – why did the game-streaming service fail?
• Children need to be protected from toxic social media platforms
• Cheating, groupies, big money and drunken brawls: how chess went rock’n’roll
• Ben Simmons ends 470-day NBA hiatus with Brooklyn outing against Philadelph­ia
• Kickingbal­l: a mix of football, baseball and home for Argentina’s Venezuelan refugees
• Women’s Champions League: Arsenal face Lyon, Chelsea in group with PSG
• NRL player Luciano Leilua charged with domestic violence offences
• Scrapping promotion and relegation in Super League betrays a lack of ambition
• Barcelona knew Robert Lewandowsk­i was good. But not this good
• Bangladesh are blazing a trail for female footballer­s in south Asia

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