The Guardian Australia - 2024-05-22

• Australia respects ICC’s independen­ce after Netanyahu arrest warrant request, government says
• Queensland MP closes electorate office due to threats after alleged drugging and sexual assault
• Greg Lynn trial: Russell Hill given ultimatum to tell wife of Carol Clay affair years before their deaths, court told
• Linda Reynolds says failed mediation with Brittany Higgins disappoint­ing for those ‘damaged and wounded by this saga’
• Centrepay scandal: Labor to reform debit scheme to combat ‘predatory behaviour’
• Israeli soldiers and police tipping off groups that attack Gaza aid trucks
• Homes evacuated in Italy after strongest quake in 40 years near supervolca­no
• Macron to visit New Caledonia as Australia moves to evacuate tourists
• Afternoon Update: New Caledonia evacuation flights confirmed; Sam Kerr to miss Olympics; and the world’s most expensive feather
• Queensland victims of sexual assault and domestic violence to be allowed to give prerecorde­d evidence
• Charlise Mutten murder accused claimed nine-year-old screamed out his name after mum shot her, court told
• Revealed: How an Australian debt collection giant dodged its own blacklisti­ng
• Where is the German cockroach actually from? We tested its DNA to trace its true origins
• Victoria’s ‘world-first’ medical cannabis driving trial to finish in late 2025, disappoint­ing advocates
• Australian doctor trapped in Gaza hospital begs government to evacuate medical team
• ‘We start the day with 60 people waiting’: the lawyers helping the ‘never-ending list’ of Australia’s DV victims
• Telstra to cut 2,800 jobs but chief executive insists change won’t affect retail customers
• Australian school students most bullied among comparable English-speaking countries, report finds
• Trump trial continues after key defense witness admonished by judge
• ‘The fear has properly set in’: how it feels to watch my home town disappear into the sea
• More valuable than gold: New Zealand feather becomes most expensive in the world
• The era of small government is ending. And Australian­s want to regain power ceded to the amoral forces of global capital
• Now is the time for Albanese to dial up pressure on Biden to drop charges against Julian Assange
• Guardian Essential poll: $300 energy rebate shouldn’t go to high-income households, voters say
• Should Australia ban children under 16 from social media – and how would it actually work?
• EU data shows rise in employed young people living with parents
• No signal from helicopter that crashed killing Iran’s president, Turkish minister says
• Nine on trial in Frankfurt on charges of plotting to overthrow German state
• UK and Finland discuss further efforts to stop Russia’s shadow oil fleet
• Delhi orders schools to close early for holidays as temperatur­es hit 47.4C
• Charges dropped against nine Egyptians over 2023 migrant shipwreck off Greece
• First companies sign up to AI safety standards on eve of Seoul summit
• Gove accuses UK university protests of ‘antisemiti­sm repurposed for Instagram age’
• Janet Yellen urges EU to join US in curbs on cheap Chinese exports
• ChatGPT suspends Scarlett Johansson-like voice as actor speaks out against OpenAI
• South Korea bans viral song glorifying Kim Jong-un due to ‘psychologi­cal warfare’ link
• Mediterran­ean migrant boat disaster: men on trial are ‘scapegoats’, say lawyers
• Poland arrests nine suspects over alleged Russian sabotage plot
• Germany coup plot trial begins amid high security
• ‘We all share the same pain’: can the IsraeliPal­estinian peace movement rebuild after 7 October?
• Top oil firms’ climate pledges failing on almost every metric, report finds
• Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internatio­nally educated elite
• ‘I’ve been called a witch, slut, murderer’: the ultra-creative women dismissed as rock star girlfriend­s
• My wife and I used to love sex – but now I’m out of shape and she has painful knees
• Gina Rinehart tried to hide her portrait – it went global instead
• Saturday Night Live: the 10 best sketches from the 49th season
• ‘Moai designs are getting lost’: extreme weather chips away at Easter Island statues
• ‘I’m screwed’: young adults forced by EU housing crisis to live with parents
• Runway strands: how to create catwal-kready styles for curly and afro-textured hair
• Walking the ‘outdoor capital of Scotland’: 25 years of the Cateran Trail
• My summer of love and lust: I fell for a Ukrainian rocker – but was I just a groupie?
• The Apprentice: Trump campaign threatens legal action over biopic that depicts him as a rapist
• ‘If you’re in Chicago … it’s the thing to do’: the history of Lollapaloo­za
• Elvis Presley heir Riley Keough moves to protect Graceland from sale
• The Shrouds review – David Cronenberg gets wrapped up in grief
• Salman Rushdie says a Palestinia­n state formed today would be ‘Taliban-like’
• Have you ever broken a bone? The law? A heart? How an encounter with a stranger changed me
• Breathless goodbye: the race to finish JeanLuc Godard’s last film, one day before he died
• Dog Poop Attack: the play that dishes dirt on theatre-world animositie­s
• There is a way out of the Assange legal quagmire – the US should drop the case
• Michael Cohen learned that membership in Trump’s inner circle has a harsh cost
• Biden is dramatical­ly out of touch with voters on Gaza. He may lose because of it
• My old headteache­r has been convicted of sexual offences against pupils. But why did justice take so long?
• At a festival for the super-rich, the argument for higher taxes couldn’t have been clearer
• In Italy, we live to eat. But tasty NHS meals put our bland hospital food to shame
• There’s an article I shouldn’t tell you about – is contempt law in a losing battle with reality?
• Why Guardian Australia is investigat­ing the private debt collection industry
• Disposable income soared for richest Australian­s after pandemic began but went backwards for the rest, report says
• AstraZenec­a aims to nearly double revenues to $80bn by 2030
• Climate victims file criminal case against bosses of oil firm Total
• IMF tells UK not to cut taxes as it warns over £30bn fiscal hole
• Grocery price rises in Great Britain slow as shoppers opt for own-label products
• Devon parasite outbreak: supplier says service nearly restored as it hikes dividend
• The Guardian view on Julian Assange: time to dial this process down
• The Guardian view on the infected blood report: the disaster’s victims have at last been heard
• More than third of Amazon rainforest struggling to recover from drought, study finds
• Eagles shifting flight paths to avoid Ukraine conflict, scientists find
• Microplast­ics found in every human testicle in study
• Fish deaths in England’s rivers rise tenfold in four years
• Voter views on animal welfare are changing – and taking the live sheep export trade with them
• UK’s new dangerous cycling offence will achieve pretty much nothing
• Device aids recovery of people with spinal injuries, trial finds
• Microsoft’s AI chatbot will ‘recall’ everything you do on its new PCs
• Amazon Echo Hub review: Alexa’s affordable smart-home dashboard
• New York reaches $2bn settlement with crypto lender Genesis over fraud claims
• Challenges faced by football in Australia will always be there, says Ange Postecoglo­u
• I have finally mastered a TikTok recipe for bao buns – but they take almost five hours
• Sam Kerr certain to miss Paris Olympics after being omitted from Matildas squad for warmup games
• Kate Jenkins to push gender equality after taking top sports administra­tion job
• Lizzy Banks quits cycling after ‘life torn apart for nothing’ in doping case
• Jake Fraser-McGurk added as a reserve in Australia’s T20 World Cup squad
• WTF Waratahs: rugby union’s sleeping giant remains stranded at rock bottom
• Toni Kroos: Madrid and Germany midfielder to retire after Euro 2024
• There’s another word for Manchester City’s dominance: unhealthy
• Arne Slot’s long-shot romance hints at gamble worth taking for Liverpool
• In a world of fantasy leagues, Anthony Edwards is an actual fantasy player
• More practice, fewer matches: the logic to Raducanu’s French Open withdrawal
• DeChambeau brings the thunder to Valhalla even if Schauffele takes glory
• Mary Earps: ‘It’s been a tough season. I felt like the punching bag at times’
• Morecambe directors warn of ‘catastroph­ic outcome’ if club not sold

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