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  • 10 Chaotic Questions
    Yann Martel: ‘I hate rich people – of which I’m one, because of Life of Pi’

    Yann Martel author photographed at home 2026

  • The moment I knew
    Our knees touched and we froze – it was cinematic

    A man and a woman posing for a selfie at a restaurant table

  • Tennis
    ‘I’m extremely lucky to be here’: Jelena Dokic on her childhood dreams

    Jelena Dokic speaks speaks at the draw for the 2026 United Cup 2026

  • Blind date
    ‘We laughed so hard the man at the next table shushed us’

    A composite of two white women with glasses and dark hair, one with colourful knitwear, the other clasping her hands together

  • Cassie Workman
    You Are Here – a remarkable standup on a crumbling world

    2026 Most Outstanding Show nomination at Melbourne international comedy festival - Cassie Workman

  • An Iliad review
    David Wenham is a great match for twist on Homer’s epic

    David Wenham in Sydney Theatre Company’s An Iliad 2026. Photo: Daniel Boud ©
  • Two hands reach toward stacks of poker chips, with a large explosion in the background

    Iran conflict
    Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on?

  • Vance meeting Leo at the Vatican on 19 May 2025

    Analysis
    ‘Popesplaining’ Vance out of depth in argument over whether Iran is a just war

News

  • Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, greet the public in Sydney

    Monarchy
    Did Harry and Meghan tour Australia to make money – or cosplay a return to royal life?

    Along with a luxe wellness retreat and MasterChef appearance, the faux royal tour included time spent on causes the couple clearly care about
  • Travis Lovett begins the final day of the Yoorrook Justice Commission Walk for Truth, in Melbourne as spectators look on

    Indigenous Australians
    Travis Lovett’s 500km journey to remind Albanese of his promise to create a First Nations truth-telling commission

  • Protesters are seen during a Justice for Palestine rally in Brisbane in August 2025

    Queensland
    Multiple protesters charged under new ‘from the river to the sea’ ban

Special report

  • Donald Trump on the edge of a cliff. Is the president cornered by his failing agenda?

    The Saturday read
    Two weeks that pushed Trump to the edge. Is his presidency unravelling?

    The president has opened fissures in his base by starting a war he couldn’t finish with Iran, stoking inflation and offending Christians. Barred from running again, he may feel he has nothing to lose

In focus

  • A superyacht from above

    Health
    How Australia’s other half heals: all aboard the superyacht where rehab costs $600,000 a week

    While an estimated 500,000 people battling addiction miss out on treatment each year, those who can afford it can access private care within hours

  • Full Story
    The Sunday read: Who gets to be Australian? – podcast

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  • two men side by side

    ‘It’s kind of a tough situation’
    US Catholics torn in feud between president and the pope

Features

  • Yann Martel author photographed at home 2026

    10 Chaotic Questions
    Yann Martel: ‘I hate the rich people of this world – of which I’m one, because of Life of Pi’

  • Woman standing by ocean at sunset, Okinoerabu Island of Amami Islands, Kagoshima, Japan

    Grief
    Before Ruth died, we agreed on her ‘ghost’ sign. Experts say it’s a powerful tool for working through grief

More features

  • Minnie Driver in The Murder Line.

    TV
    The Murder Line review – Minnie Driver’s mischievous crime caper is on the edge of excellence

  • A man and a woman posing for a selfie at a restaurant table

    The moment I knew
    Our knees touched and we froze – it was cinematic

  • David Wenham in Sydney Theatre Company’s An Iliad 2026. Photo: Daniel Boud ©

    Australian theatre
    An Iliad review – David Wenham is a great match for contemporary twist on Homer’s epic

  • Album cover art shows Madonna doing a cross legged pose with a purple veil over her head

    Review
    Madonna: I Feel So Free review – album teaser offers hypnotic glimpse of a return to her club scene roots

  • Three flying duck ornaments against a wallpapered wall, the front one carrying a union jack flag in its beak

    Family
    ‘I feel like I’m losing her’: the families torn apart by older relatives going far right

  • A worker person writes on a stack of boxes labelled 'USAID'

    ‘Ignorance and cruelty’
    Former USAID official details devastation inflicted by Doge cuts

  • The opposition leader, Angus Taylor, is seen in front of an Australian flag

    double quotation markLiberals can rule again if they take a simple lesson from their defeat – but Taylor’s Trumpian plan strays from the light

    Tom McIlroy
    Taylor painted a grim picture of migration that fits more with his tenuous political position than the state of the country
  • George Monbiot

    double quotation markWho’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution?

    George Monbiot
    The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

More opinion

  • A young birdwatcher hiding in foliage looks through a pair of binoculars

    double quotation markI adored Pokémon as a child. Now I collect critters of a different kind in a hobby that brings me deep joy – birdwatching

    Jayce Carrano
  • The Duke And Duchess Of Sussex Visit Australia - Day 4SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 17: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex meets volunteer first responders from Bondi Surf Bathers' Life Saving Club, during a visit to Bondi Beach, on day four of the royal trip to Australia on April 17, 2026 in Sydney, Australia. Volunteers from the organisation, founded in 1907, played an integral role in protecting beachgoers and saving lives during the terrorist attack at Bondi Beach on December 14. (Photo by Jonathan Brady-Pool/Getty Images)

    double quotation markIs Meghan Markle really the most trolled person in the world?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Dave Schilling

    double quotation markWar isn’t a ‘moral’ issue – at least not for the Trump administration

    Dave Schilling
  • Illustration for profiling

    double quotation markWhen I hear an Australian politician announce a tough new immigration policy, I think dystopia

    Yumna Kassab

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    Fiona Katauskas
    Do prediction markets make money from other peoples’ misery?

    You can bet on it
  • Jelena Dokic speaks speaks at the draw for the 2026 United Cup 2026

    Interview
    ‘I’m extremely lucky to be here’: Jelena Dokic on childhood dreams and talking tennis

    Australia’s former world No 4 player and now respected pundit speaks about highs and lows in her life, and the importance of family on success

More sport

  • Scorer Ibane Bowat celebrates Portsmouth’s vital win over Leicester at Fratton Park.

    Football
    Australia's Touré lights up Championship with second-half hat-trick for Norwich

  • Gout Gout celebrates victory in the under-20 100m after finishing in 10.21sec at the 2026 Australian Athletics Junior Championships in Brisbane

    Athletics
    Gout Gout waves off rivals to claim 100m national junior title in style

  • Alessa Russo celebrates with teammate Lucy Bronze after scoring the only goal of the game in England's 1-0 World Cup qualifying win over Iceland in Reykjavík.

    Football
    England do just enough as Russo seals Women’s World Cup qualifying win over Iceland

  • Mikel Arteta (left) gestures as he stands on the touchline next to Manchester City's Pep Guardiola

    double quotation markArteta’s desire for complete control may derail Arsenal’s wobbling title drive

    Jonathan Wilson
  • Man in suit sitting at table with papers in front of him and microphone, appearing to listen.

    FBI
    FBI’s Kash Patel denies excess drinking amid officials’ US security concerns

  • Cargo ships near the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf

    Trump administration briefing
    Trump celebrates strait of Hormuz reopening, though Iran officials warn they could close it again

More news

  • Pierre Guillon de Prince and Dieudonne Boutrin

    Slavery
    French man, 86, issues historic apology for family’s role in transatlantic slavery

    Pierre Guillon de Prince believed to be first in France to formally apologise for ancestors’ connections to slavery
  • One Nation’s Victorian state president, Warren Pickering, speaking at a rally. He is wearing a cap with a One Nation logo and holding a microphone

    One Nation
    One Nation rejects allegations Victorian candidate was told to use personal bank account for campaign finances

  • Anna Keay.

    UK
    Queen Elizabeth II’s official biographer named as historian Anna Keay

  • Protesters are seen during a Justice for Palestine rally in Brisbane in August 2025

    Brisbane
    Multiple protesters charged under Queensland’s ‘from the river to the sea’ ban

  • Simon Patterson, the estranged husband of mushroom murderer Erin Patterson, will tell his story outside a courtroom for the first time in a memoir

    Erin Patterson mushroom trial
    Estranged husband of mushroom murderer Erin Patterson to pen memoir about case

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Explainers & analysis

  • Pedestrians are reflected in a window as they walk past an electronic stock board at the ASX Ltd. exchange centre

    Analysis
    Wall Street is booming while the ASX stumbles. Are we missing something, or will the ‘macro chickens’ come home to roost?

  • Richard marles

    Analysis
    Has Marles bowed to Trump’s wishes on defence spending? The figures are as clear as mud

  • Satellite image of the northern part of the strait of Hormuz, showing three islands in the strait

    Explainer
    What mines has Iran laid in the strait of Hormuz and how can the US remove them?

  • Views of Qantas airbus taking off as a Virgin aircraft taxies on the tarmac at Sydney airport

    Analysis
    Will Qantas and Virgin continue raising fares and cutting routes? This graph may give the answer

More Australia news

  • Environment
    ‘Incomprehensible’: birds flee and hundreds of turtles left to die after government cuts water to NSW wetlands

  • Victoria
    One person dead and one with ‘life-threatening injuries’ after car hits pedestrians outside Melbourne showgrounds

  • Consumer affairs
    US Live Nation and Ticketmaster verdict triggers calls for Australian investigation into ticketing rules

  • Change by degrees
    ‘The environmental movement needs many hands’: saving Australia’s biodiversity is getting personal

More world news

  • Caribbean
    Sincere dialogue needed to ease Cuba’s ‘grave humanitarian crisis’, say Mexico, Spain and Brazil

  • US news
    Trump administration cleared to continue construction of White House ballroom, court rules

  • Mohamed Al Fayed
    Survivors of alleged sexual abuse by former owner of Harrods want enablers to face justice

  • Norway
    Norwegian politicians hope Epstein files inquiry will restore faith in democracy

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  • 2026 Most Outstanding Show nomination at Melbourne international comedy festival - Cassie Workman

    Melbourne international comedy festival
    Cassie Workman: You Are Here review – a remarkable standup on a crumbling world

  • Illustration of the video game character Zelda

    My cultural awakening
    Zelda taught me the importance of play – and has helped me deal with work, parenting and grief

What to watch

  • Richard Gadd as Ruben and Jamie Bell as Niall in Half Man.

    The watcher
    Half Man: Richard Gadd’s follow-up to Baby Reindeer is uncomfortably erotic – and utterly monstrous

  • David Attenborough reading a book in an armchair for A Gorilla Story.

    TV
    A Gorilla Story: Told By David Attenborough review – like one of our last meetings with an adored relative

  • Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder standing together, one holding coffee

    TV review
    Hacks finale review – this venomous satire used to be the height of comedy. But now … it isn’t

  • Angelina Jolie looking upward thoughtfully while holding phone in a scene from Couture.

    Film
    Couture review – Angelina Jolie’s courageously personal turn adds depth to fashion-world drama

What to listen to

  • Andy Kershaw at home in London, standing in front of his vinyl record collection in 2005.

    Andy Kershaw obituary
    Broadcaster who brought world music to British mainstream

  • A group of women in traditional dress, wearing headphones and singing into a microphone

    Folk album of the month
    Various artists: Asili ya Mama review – Tanzanian field recordings tell women’s stories with an energetic trill

  • A close-up, blue-tinted photograph of the musician Lucy Liyou

    Music review
    Lucy Liyou: Mr Cobra – an arresting trip through the volatile emotions of a predatory relationship

  • DJ Shadow

    Interview
    DJ Shadow: ‘Kraftwerk are a touchstone for every phase of my career’

What to read

  • Australian book review 'Griefdogg' by Michael Winkler

    Australian books
    Griefdogg by Michael Winkler review – a cryptic, beguiling tale about a man who turns into a dog

  • Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas.

    Book of the day
    The Dog’s Gaze by Thomas Laqueur review – the art of the canine, from Velázquez to Picasso

  • Jason Allen-Paisant

    Audiobook of the week
    The Possibility of Tenderness by Jason Allen-Paisant audiobook review – meditations on nature and belonging

  • Circle of Wonders by Kathryn Heyman.

    Australian books
    Circle of Wonders by Kathryn Heyman review – solace and healing in an acid-etched portrait of a dysfunctional family

What to play

  • The team behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 pose with awards.

    Games
    Clair Obscur and Dispatch share top honours at Bafta games awards

  • Replaced video game screenshot

    Review
    Replaced review – nostalgic cyberpunk tribute has few ideas of its own

  • Pragmata.

    Games
    Pragmata review – soulful sad dad saga in stunning outer space

  • Character exploring crashed machinery in Arc Raiders' post-apocalyptic world

    Games
    ‘Seeking connection’: the video game where players stopped shooting and started talking

More culture

  • Phillip of Tanna a self taught volcano scientist lives at the base of Yasur volcano in his local village on Tanna. He collaborateds with international scientists to document information about Vanuatu's volcanos. In this image he poses in a gifted lava suit on the ash plaine of Yasur On the ash plains of Mount Yasur, on the island of Tanna, Vanuatu, Phillip, an internationally recognised, self-taught volcanologist, stands barefoot atop a volcanic rock bomb. Wearing a lava-protection suit gifted to him by some visiting researchers, the volcano smoulders behind him, sending a plume of gas and sulphur into the sky. Phillip grew up beneath the active volcano, and this portrait captures him in his element.

    Photography
    Australian photographer wins at world photography awards with ‘barefoot volcanologist’ image

  • John Cazale (back to camera) and Al Pacino hug in a ballroom

    Film
    I’ll make up a whopper you can’t refuse! Why do we love to believe cinema’s best lines were improvised?

  • Film Review - Lee Cronin's The MummyThis image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Shylo Molina, left, and Billie Roy in a scene from "Lee Cronin's The Mummy." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

    Film
    Screenmaxxing: why Hollywood is supersizing the big screen experience

  • Poet Federico Garcia Lorca at his house entrance in Granada in 1935

    Poetry
    Lost Federico García Lorca verse discovered 93 years after it was written

  • A composite of two white women with glasses and dark hair, one with colourful knitwear, the other clasping her hands together

    Blind date
    ‘We laughed so hard the man at the next table shushed us’

  • A Walk With Comedian Tom Gleeson in Melbourne CBD on Friday April 10 during the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

    Walk with ...
    Tom Gleeson: ‘I might be deluded but I feel people know I’m coming from a good place’

Food

  • Meera Sodha's sweetheart cabbage and caramelised onion spaghetti on three plates on a blue with white stipe tablecloth.

    The new vegan
    Meera Sodha’s recipe for sweetheart cabbage and caramelised onion spaghetti

  • A black-rimmed white cup of frothy coffee with the foam fashioned into the shape of a cockroach, with a cockroach on a matching saucer, against a pale-pink background

    Food
    Help, there’s a cockroach in my coffee! 16 gross ingredients hidden in your favourite foods

  • Anzac sandwich biscuits with dark chocolate filling on green and pink plates

    Food
    Helen Goh’s recipe for Anzac sandwich biscuits with dark chocolate filling

  • Mojito cocktails with fresh mint and lime on rustic wooden background

    The Filter
    The best rums: 10 tasty tipples for mojitos, sours and sipping neat – tested

Wellbeing

  • An illustration of a woman with her hand over her lips so as to signal keeping quiet

    Why am I like this?
    Feeling off? Your secrets could be making you stressed

  • James Mason, who won the world's deepest marathon, in running gear next to a river, with rocks behind him, in Switzerland

    Experience
    double quotation markI won the world’s deepest underground marathon

  • A Japanese woman uses her smartphone

    Technology
    ‘How do I end a call?’: the elderly Japanese people determined to master smartphones

  • A person stands on a giant nose under a sky with clouds

    Breathing
    Are you breathing properly? How I found out I wasn’t

Advice

  • A snail on a zebra crossing

    Patience
    Slowly does it: how to be patient in a world that wants everything right now

  • Two tiara-wearing women embrace as they read a letter

    Leading questions
    double quotation markMy friend keeps sending me unsettling social media videos. How do I tell her to stop?

  • The young Stuart in glasses

    double quotation markMy son is getting glasses for the first time. He’s fine about it but I’m an emotional wreck

    Stuart Heritage
  • Illustration showing shopping carts as glasses filled with groceries on person's face

    You be the judge
    Should my girlfriend change the way she bags her supermarket shopping?

Fashion & beauty

  • Alaia jeans campaign featuring models with all but one’s backs turned to the camera wearing just jeans and heels

    Fashion
    Luxury to high street jeans: can you tell the difference?

  • A woman lying on a wooden bench wearing a vest with a floral pattern

    Fashion Statement newsletter
    ‘The antidote to Brat’ – why pointelle is having a moment

    Newsletter
  • A composite image of a cream linen blazer, black sunglasses, grey racer back vest, blue straight leg jeans, brown belt with silver studs, black leather shoulder bag and brown suede moccasins on a pink and green vertically striped background.

    Fashion
    True blue: what to wear with classic straight leg jeans

    Gallery3
  • Stella McCartney’s new collection at H&M

    Stella McCartney
    Stella McCartney launches sustainable collection with H&M

Travel

  • Weird light effect scotland

    Scottish holidays
    Lochs, bothies and burial chambers: readers’ favourite trips in Scotland

  • Decorative town sign on outskirts of Woodhall Spa, LincolnshireCBPT2T Decorative town sign on outskirts of Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire

    British holidays
    ‘Bath, Harrogate … Woodhall?’ A short break in one of the UK’s most forgotten spa towns

Relationships

  • Speech bubble showing four-out-of-five heart rating on pink background

    Parents
    Despite their bad reputation, parenting group chats are – for some – the village that never sleeps

  • A woman in a fairy costume standing in a forest clearing looking up at the sky

    A job that changed me
    I was a professional fairy. The kids made the job magical – but the adults could be a nightmare

  • Kindness of strangers composite image featuring a member of the Barmy Army among a crowd of cricket fans

    Kindness of strangers
    The Ashes heat was unbearable. Then a Barmy Army member offered his seats in the shade

  • Kathering Scholes and Roger hugging one another near a fence under a blue sky in Launceston, Tasmania in 1982

    The moment I knew
    In the Tasmanian wilderness, we lay next to each other in the dark. It felt like now or never

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    Seascape: the state of our oceans
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    Five Great Reads
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