The Guardian Australia - 2023-08-17

• National cabinet agrees to build 1.2m new homes in bid to tackle housing crisis
• Rupert Murdoch dating again, four months after breaking off engagement
• Lidia Thorpe says voice referendum should be called off and attacks ‘powerless advisory body’
• Search for Indonesian sailor continues as rescued Australian surfers contact relieved families
• Booing and walkouts after the Killers tell Georgia audience Russian is their ‘brother’
• Climate crisis is accelerati­ng, scientists warn, after unusually warm July breaks Australian records
• Leongatha suspected mushroom poisoning: Erin Patterson says media has portrayed her as an ‘evil witch’
• Janet Yellen inadverten­tly ate hallucinog­enic mushrooms in China – and started a trend
• Matildas v England: the match that launched a thousand memes
• Matildas on a quest for lasting legacy beyond winning a home World Cup
• Wednesday briefing: How the World Cup took women’s football to another level
• From Aukus to tax cuts: six things to watch for at Labor’s national conference
• ‘National disgrace’: protest after tree estimated to be hundreds of years old cut down in Tasmania
• Politician and a poet: the ‘unapologet­ically radical’ Green running to be Brisbane lord mayor
• Seven West Media’s profits dive 31% despite record TV audiences for Women’s World Cup
• PwC did not disclose any conflicts of interest before winning aged care auditing contract
• Albanese government refuses further oneyear extension to royal commission into veteran suicide
• Matildas brand more valuable than any other national sports team, marketing expert says
• Perfect pets or dangerous dogs? The sudden, surprising rise of American bully XLs
• Elon Musk won’t fight Mark Zuckerberg in a ‘cage match’ – because he knows he’d lose
• ‘They’re here at our invitation’: how gulls took over the UK’s cities
• Georgia indictment lays out Trump election plot in all its shocking detail
• Pauline Hanson wins appeal against $250,000 defamation finding awarded to Brian Burston
• All Indigenous people want is a say in our own affairs. A voice will help us get it
• Extreme water stress faced by countries home to quarter of world population
• North Korea claims US soldier who crossed over ‘disillusio­ned by society’
• Giant fast-food costume fetches more than $16,000 in Canada auction
• Iranian director Saeed Roustayi jailed for ‘unauthoris­ed’ Cannes film screening
• Governor Brian Kemp tells Trump Georgia’s 2020 election ‘was not stolen’
• Twitter appears to delay links by five seconds to sites Elon Musk dislikes
• Fitness earlier in life reduces cancer risk when older, study shows
• Indian doctors rebel over diktat to prescribe cheaper drugs
• Tuohy family say they are victims of $15m ‘shakedown’ over Blind Side allegation­s
• Dominican Republic explosion death toll rises to 10 with another 11 missing
• Denver officer fatally shot man thought to be holding knife – but it was a marker pen
• Bank of Ireland glitch let customers withdraw money they didn’t have
• First Hawaii fire victims named, amid questions over whether power line decision fueled blazes
• What is Rico? Georgia uses racketeeri­ng law to charge Donald Trump
• UK inflation falls sharply to 6.8% as cost of living pressures ease
• Will AI steal my job? Maybe – but here are some possible new opportunit­ies
• Sudan: more than a million people have fled ‘spiralling’ conflict, says UN
• A moment that changed me: I heard my ex-stepmother’s voice on the radio – and learned how to forgive
• From Sound of Freedom to Ron DeSantis: how QAnon’s crazy conspiracy theories went mainstream
• ‘If Stevie Wonder wants to play it, pay attention!’: how a bizarre new instrument found unusual success
• Take the high road: the man who visited every country in the world – without boarding a plane
• Great Lakes gets its first wind farm – but some fear environmen­tal fallout
• Leech or saviour? Edinburgh fringe show spotlights theatre’s vexed relationsh­ip with critics
• ‘We turn waste into something golden’: the creatives transformi­ng rags to riches
• ‘Deliberate­ly obscure’: how to locate the weird world of hidden public art
• How Fox uses the World Cup and Masked Singer to keep Fox News on air
• Guacamole, yellow curry and green goddess: colourful game night food for the Matildas semi-final match
• Wanted: pastes and jars to add instant flavour
• ‘I love you’: why men are much quicker to declare their feelings than women
• Zahra Newman on becoming Billie Holiday: ‘I want people to feel how they do when they listen to her’
• The Monkey King review – lively Netflix animation revives ancient Chinese classic
• At Home With the Furys review – how have they made the boxer’s life look so excruciati­ngly dull?
• Rich Men North of Richmond punches down. No surprise the right wing loves it
• Edinburgh arts venue axes Graham Linehan event after complaints
• Rashomon: Akira Kurosawa’s truly daring film is still electrifyi­ng
• ‘Naughty rather than dirty’: 50 years of Man About the House, the sitcom that introduced sex to British TV
• Serpico review – Al Pacino is at his intense best in classic 70s corrupt-cop thriller
• The Idiots review – Lars von Trier’s appalling-taste Dogme satire is irritating­ly original
• When oncologist­s like me rain bad tidings on patients, they need one thing above all
• Florida’s attacks on academic freedom just got even worse
• Witness tampering? Samuel Bankman-Fried earned a judge’s rebuke
• Welcome to Rishi-land: barren of attraction­s, bar a wavering chorus of ‘at least we’re not Labour’
• Misogynist­s like Andrew Tate hold sway over thousands of men and boys. Male leaders like me must address that
• How do men really bond? For me, it’s been 25 years of kicking a ball – then sharing the stuff of life
• Tipping culture in the US is out of control – we’re even asked to tip self-checkouts
• Rishi Sunak is plotting to make this the net zero election. That’s great news for Labour
• Ending the tampon tax has just made retailers richer. Can we stop weaponisin­g periods?
• Russia is committing grave acts of ecocide in Ukraine – and the results will harm the whole world
• Harrods bounces back after pandemic hit as big spenders return to London
• Harvey Nichols boss resigns after tensions over strategy with owner
• Demand for holidaywea­r and food lifts M&S profit expectatio­ns
• The Guardian view on Trump’s latest charges: the case for the cases against an expresiden­t
• The Guardian view on students’ mental health: young adults need tailored support
• For years I only ate animals whose names I knew and it made perfect sense
• Study finds 11% of patients in cardiac intensive care have taken recreation­al drugs
• Roman fragments offer glimpse of emperor Hadrian’s daily events calendar
• Scientists reconstruc­t Pink Floyd song by listening to people’s brainwaves
• ‘Driverless cars are the hardest problem you could want to solve’ – Oxa’s Gavin Jackson
• Country diary: Summer rain has brought out the mushrooms
• The best debuts on the first weekend of the Premier League season
• Ben Stokes returns to England one-day squad ahead of Cricket World Cup
• ‘You were considered a circus freak’: the long road from the Flying Bats to the Matildas
• Owen Farrell’s rescinded red card sets worrying precedent for the game
• Liverpool have swapped clarity for confusion in the transfer market
• Moisés Caicedo will be £115m bargain if Chelsea return to the elite
• Saudi Pro League: the key factors that will decide project’s global impact
• Cricket’s Silver Ashes confirms you’re never too old for internatio­nal debut
• Lionel Messi scores ninth goal in six games as Miami reach Leagues Cup final
• ‘It’s been really exciting’: Women’s World Cup parties grow fanbase
• Transfer roundup: Brighton prepare new bid for Baleba and Galatasara­y agree Ziyech deal
• Football transfer rumours: Alisson to AlNassr? Doku to Manchester City?
• Stuart McInally retires after omission from Scotland Rugby World Cup squad
• A deep dive into low possession smash-andgrab thrashings in football
• Five down, two to go: Matildas face moment of truth in high-stakes World Cup game

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