The Guardian Australia - 2024-05-10

• Anthony Albanese faces internal revolt from inner-city Labor MPs over gas strategy
• Sydney council’s ‘ridiculous’ same-sex parents book ban could be overturned as backlash grows
• Mockery, low tactics, sexist tropes: gloriously, Stormy Daniels is repaying Donald Trump in kind
• Labor’s strategy is to reduce emissions from gas – but not if that means doing anything to cut its use
• Faruqi v Hanson: Greens senator seeks to reopen racial discrimina­tion case citing new evidence
• Report urges immediate assistance for Australia’s faltering live music festival sector
• Peter Dutton compares ‘river to the sea’ chants at pro-Palestinia­n protests to Hitler
• Ten-year-old boy charged over alleged sexual assault of Italian tourist in Cairns
• Guns and explosive chemicals found at Adelaide home of defence analyst accused of terror plot, court hears
• Nine’s AFR print edition to cease in WA after Seven’s press doubles production price
• Kristen Stewart says Hollywood’s selfcongra­tulation over gender equality ‘feels phony’
• Labor’s gas strategy: what is it and why do critics call it ‘Back to the Future’?
• Coalition pushes using super for home buying despite modelling showing proposal would cost billions
• Afternoon Update: Labor’s gas plan labelled ‘morally bankrupt’; China accuses Australia of ‘spying’; and Trump’s son’s new role
• Budget sneak peek predicts higher wages and tax breaks – but no increase for Australian­s on jobseeker
• Google Cloud accidental­ly deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unpreceden­ted misconfigu­ration’
• Behaviour programs can curb the cycle of domestic violence – so why are hundreds of Australian men on waiting lists?
• Melbourne GP deregister­ed for year after homophobic and anti-vaccinatio­n Facebook posts
• A $400 room the size of a walk-in closet: short-term renters left vulnerable as NSW housing crisis bites
• Australia’s health watchdog warns patients are being overprescr­ibed psychotrop­ic medication
• ‘Can it really be this bad?’: racism in schools shocks South Australia’s children’s tsar
• Trump’s strategy to delay cases before the election is working
• Is a previously unheard-of First Nation just Canada’s latest Pretendian case?
• ‘I’ve got nowhere else to go’: as winter draws in, dozens are sleeping rough in Ballarat
• Australian federal budget 2024: what we know so far and what to expect
• Children ‘piled up and shot’: new details emerge of ethnic cleansing in Darfur
• Stormy Daniels to return to stand for second day of testimony at Trump trial
• Five babies in England reported dead after developing whooping cough
• Man arrested for attempted break-in at Drake’s Toronto mansion
• Court bans Glory to Hong Kong protest song prompting further fears for free speech
• Boeing supplier regularly shipped parts with defects, whistleblo­wer alleges
• House quashes Marjorie Taylor Greene motion to oust speaker Mike Johnson
• UK toddler has hearing restored in world first gene therapy trial
• Western military trainers could go to Ukraine, Lithuania minister says
• Fraud rife on secondhand marketplac­es Depop, Preloved, and Shpock
• End majority jury verdicts to prevent more justice ‘horror’, says Malkinson
• The Killers’ Mr Brightside becomes biggest song to never reach UK No 1
• Digital recreation­s of dead people need urgent regulation, AI ethicists say
• Trinity College Dublin agrees to divest from Israeli firms after student protest
• Malaysia plans to give orangutans to countries that buy palm oil
• Shirley Bassey to auction jewellery including diamond ring from Elton John
• Two poems, four years in detention: the Chinese dissident who smuggled his writing out of prison
• Biodiversi­ty loss is biggest driver of infectious disease outbreaks, says study
• Best podcasts of the week: Gemma Collins joyfully jumps into her specialist subject – herself
• Diva Cups: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
• Ian McShane: ‘When I was about to get it on with Richard Burton, he said I reminded him of Elizabeth’
• From Big Black’s noise to Joanna Newsom’s hush: 10 of Steve Albini’s greatest recordings
• ‘I bet Drake heard it and laughed’: BBL Drizzy is the real winner of the Drake-Kendrick feud
• Bottoms up! The joyfully lewd art of Beryl Cook and Tom of Finland
• Judges with machine guns: the part-time drone hunters defending Kyiv
• Abortion activists worry about Democrats piggybacki­ng on the cause: ‘This is not a ploy’
• ‘You need to be brave’: Tigray’s female cyclists ride again in the aftermath of war
• Ditch the mirror and celebrate your strengths: therapists on 20 ways to boost your body confidence
• Dining across the divide: ‘I thought, Oh God, I hope I don’t get a dyed-in-the-wool Scottish Tory’
• Knocked Loose: You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To review – hardcore punk’s dark stars go supermassi­ve
• Dada meets dresses: why clothes that look like sculptures are all the rage
• Shallow Grave review – Danny Boyle’s Edinburgh noir debut is a triple-crossing treat
• I went to the funerals of complete strangers. This is what I learned about the living
• Mother of the Bride review – Brooke Shields leads middling Netflix mush
• Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru review – art monsters
• Growing up gay in Australia was tough. This week’s Sydney council book ban shows how far we have to go
• Housekeepi­ng for Beginners review – a queer family’s fight to stay together
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes review – future simians swing through cinematic jungle
• Strictly Confidenti­al review – Elizabeth Hurley’s softcore sex drama directed by … her son
• I weep for the corals, but what I saw on the Great Barrier Reef gives me hope
• Stormy Daniels’s testimony paints a dark picture of Trump’s view of sex and power
• Gina Rinehart, One Nation and the Greens all oppose Glencore’s plan to store CO2 in the Great Artesian Basin – why?
• Keir Starmer should be embracing the Tories’ disgruntle­d voters – not their turncoat MPs
• Drake v Kendrick Lamar’s rap beef has turned very ugly – who is benefiting from such a spectacle?
• I’ve failed at jugs, I’m worse at teapots – why can’t I ever pour anything properly?
• It’s as if misogyny was the vice that dared not speak its name at the Garrick. That cloud has now lifted
• City of London watchdog is making a fair point on ‘naming and shaming’
• Bank of England keeps interest rates at 5.25% but hints at a June cut
• TikTok to auto-flag AI videos – even if created on other platforms
• Tax rises will follow UK election unless fiscal rules are ripped up, says thinktank
• ITV blames knock-on effects of Hollywood strikes for revenue hit
• Archegos founder Bill Hwang heads to trial over collapse of $36bn fund
• Cold Stone Creamery sued over ‘pistachio’ ice-cream with no pistachios
• The Guardian view on the climate emergency: we cannot afford to despair
• The Guardian view on MPs crossing the floor: a triumph of political theatre over substance
• Disease and hunger soar in Latin America after floods and drought, study finds
• I’m a British farmer. Here’s the scary truth about what’s happening to our crops
• Google DeepMind’s ‘leap forward’ in AI could unlock secrets of biology
• GB News joint owner loses fight over £34m of secretly salvaged silver
• If you live to 100, you might as well be happy: what poverty, jail and war have taught author Rhee Kun Hoo
• I discovered hydrotherm­al vents, but I’m only known for finding the Titanic
• US crypto entreprene­ur arrested in Dubai alleges torture by police
• Five-game ban given to Wil Powell as AFL ramps up sanctions for homophobic slurs
• A superpower and a struggle: cricketers on life with ADHD
• UFC champion Mark Coleman survived alcoholism. Then came the house fire and coma
• It won’t be easy for Caitlin Clark in the world’s most unmerciful sports league
• Nikola Jokić is MVP yet again. So why are his Nuggets struggling in the playoffs?
• Vinícius Júnior lights up Real Madrid to give Joshua Kimmich nightmares
• From Perth to the Premier League: Cameron Burgess revels in success as hard work pays off
• Darts sensation Luke Littler to make Australian debut at Wollongong event
• ‘Baby Fed’ no more: Grigor Dimitrov has grown up and is in form of his life
• Champions League team of the week: Joselu and Hummels steal the show
• Premiershi­p finale: what’s at stake for clubs in running for playoff places
• ‘It’s for real’: Tottenham’s exhilarati­ng journey to Women’s FA Cup final
• ‘Wembley 2.0 dream is over’: German media react to Bayern’s dramatic defeat

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