The Guardian Australia - 2022-12-06

• Labor review says Scott Morrison’s unpopulari­ty ‘single most significan­t factor’ behind election win
• ‘Goblin mode’: new Oxford word of the year speaks to the times
• Melbourne Royal Children’s hospital tells parents to stay away if possible due to ‘unpreceden­ted demand’
• Borat targets Trump, Ye and antisemiti­sm at Kennedy Center Honors
• Democrats aim to seize outright Senate majority in Georgia runoff
• Republican moderate refuses to disown Trump over constituti­on threat
• Daniel Andrews seizes on popularity of State Electricit­y Commission promise to create a new ministry
• Tasmanian tiger: remains of the last-known thylacine unearthed in museum
• Hillsong’s Brian Houston allegedly told victim who had been raped by his father ‘it’s your fault’
• Albanese postpones energy market interventi­on meeting with states after testing positive for Covid
• Cryptocurr­ency exchange Swyftx axes 90 jobs with CEO blaming aftershock­s of FTX collapse
• NSW to investigat­e ways to end bidding wars over rental properties
• Jump in homelessne­ss as Australia’s rental crisis pushes ‘overwhelme­d system to breaking point’
• Afternoon Update: Jail term for protester condemned; Brian Houston trial begins; and dead Caspian seals
• Marcia Langton warns of risk of ‘nasty, eugenicist’ debate about race ahead of voice referendum
• ‘I want it even knowing the risks’: younger Australian­s seek out GPs willing to flout Covid vaccine guidelines
• Victoria vows to overhaul child protection as Yoorrook Justice Commission begins public hearings
• Youth allowance, Austudy and carer payments to rise 6.1% in biggest lift in decades
• Australian­s warned of dodgy Christmas deals as $2bn worth of scams expected to double
• Australia looking to compensate Afghanista­n war crime victims’ families
• What is the Indigenous voice to parliament and how would it work?
• Teal voters are more likely to be Laborleani­ng than conservati­ve, study finds
• Italy home to 11 of 100-plus unofficial Chinese ‘police stations’
• Covid is weakening, China state media claims, as major cities lift lockdowns
• Florida man restrained by officers in jail died by strangulat­ion, autopsy finds
• Lula faces stiff challenge to fulfil vow to reverse Amazon deforestat­ion in Brazil
• Nursery schoolteac­hers arrested in Japan over abuse allegation­s
• Iranian protesters call for three-day strike as pressure on regime builds
• Pelé is not under palliative care despite reports, says daughter
• Mississipp­i man pleads guilty to burning cross in yard to intimidate Black family
• UK families call for easier access to deceased children’s social media history
• Met police illegally filmed children as young as 10 at climate protest
• Higher levels of strep A in UK could be due to Covid, says health chief
• Man charged with threatenin­g doctor for providing care to trans patients
• Exploitati­ve gas pricing is causing debt and distress for many Australian households
• Millennial­s and gen Z have deserted the Coalition – this could be dire for the opposition
• Hunger has taken hold across Africa. We need a new approach to tackling its causes
• Working from home boosts women’s job satisfacti­on more than men’s, and that has a downside
• My divorced parents are competing for the affection of their grandson – and everyone wins!
• The Guardian view on biodiversi­ty collapse: the crisis humanity can no longer ignore
• Coroner calls for UK anaphylaxi­s register after Pret a Manger deaths
• Many pubs and breweries will close without more energy help, report warns
• Sunak’s government ‘going backwards’ on green economy, says CBI
• Cost of traditiona­l Christmas dinner food ‘rises three times faster than wages’
• UK staff to have right to ask for flexible working from day one in job
• £18bn project to link UK to huge wind and solar farm in Sahara delayed by a year
• The Guardian view on local libraries: a resource that must be protected
• Australia urged to take leadership role at Cop15 biodiversi­ty summit
• Stop burning trees to make energy, say 650 scientists before Cop15 biodiversi­ty summit
• ‘Are we alone in the universe?’: work begins in Western Australia on world’s most powerful radio telescopes
• What is AI chatbot phenomenon ChatGPT and could it replace humans?
• What does it take to be an astronaut? After dreaming of the stars, I decided to find out
• Flapdoodle­r, roorback, yulehole: Why forgotten words need rescuing from obscurity
• AI bot ChatGPT stuns academics with essaywriti­ng skills and usability
• Pegasus spyware was used to hack reporters’ phones. I’m suing its creators
• Chinese security firm advertises ethnicity recognitio­n technology while facing UK ban
• Risky online behaviour ‘almost normalised’ among young people, says study
• Labour calls for crackdown on rip-off UK Christmas broadband and mobile ads
• Longtermis­m: how good intentions and the rich created a dangerous creed
• The revenge of Mr Irrelevant: Brock Purdy and a Sunday NFL miracle
• From Behich to Kuol: five Socceroos World Cup highlights
• Jude Bellingham’s moment of cinema makes us wonder where this might go
• ‘It’s hard to accept him’: Deshaun Watson booed on NFL return after abuse claims
• USA’s World Cup report card: best and worst players, plus prediction­s for 2026
• Achraf Hakimi endured Fifa ban to emerge as Morocco’s World Cup ace

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