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  • The vanished businessman John Margerison (centre) surrounded by photos appearing on a series of ‘John Margerison’ websites all set up on the same day earlier this year.

    Who is the real John Margerison?
    Vanished businessman leaves behind corporate maze and trail of intrigue

    Exclusive: having told parliament he’s ‘severed all ties’ with Australia, the former business associate of Stuart Robert is believed to be in Dubai
  • The New South Wales suburb of La Perouse is seen from a commercial aircraft in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, 16 May, 2017. (AAP Image/ Sam Mooy) NO ARCHIVING

    Sydney
    Man?dies after suspected whale collision capsizes boat

  • Live
    AFL?2023 grand final: Collingwood Magpies v Brisbane Lions

    Rolling report: Collingwood and Brisbane meet with the premiership flag at stake at a packed out MCG. Join Jo Khan for the buildup to the first bounce
    • Katharine Murphy

      Our?leaders are burning out while polarisation splits the nation and erodes trust in politics

      Katharine Murphy

    • Warm water and $8 hot chips
      After a six-year wait, does western Sydney’s new pool live up to the hype?

    • Exclusive
      Competition chief calls for new mandate to police airline industry

    • 'Very unusual scenario'
      Australian gardener becomes first person to survive deadly flesh-eating bacteria

    • Kosovo
      White House warns of ‘unprecedented’ Serbian troop buildup on border

    • Extreme weather
      Unseasonable heat to hit south-east over grand final weekend

    • Donald Trump
      Retiring general appears to call former president ‘wannabe dictator’

    • Tupac Shakur
      One?of last living witnesses and ex-gang leader indicted in murder

News extra

  • Chinatown

    ‘Half the community is undecided'
    The?battle to get Chinese-Australians to support the Indigenous voice

    • Myth, politics and murder
      Why?the voice battle in Tasmania is different

    • El Ni?o
      Australian farmers are coming off three bumper years. Are they prepared for the sudden dry?

    • ‘A yes result will be unifying’
      Anthony Albanese on the final push forward for the voice

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Spotlight

  • Australia’s best photos of the month
    September 2023

    National rallies for change, endangered coastal emus and an exiting premier; Guardian Australia looks back at the month’s most striking photos from across the country
  • File photo of a galah

    An?injured galah taught me that what makes something beautiful is also what makes it fragile

    Natasha May
  • Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

    Full Story
    Anthony Albanese on the final push forward for the voice

    Guardian Australia political editor Katharine Murphy talks to prime minister Anthony Albanese about why a yes vote is still possible
  • EcoLiv modular home in rural setting

    Housing
    More than a box, smarter than a prefab: modular is back, and this time with style

    Companies have sprung up around Australia to produce housing that offers a new option amid the property crisis, and now governments are taking notice
    • 'A large group of First Nations representatives have called for an Indigenous voice to parliament that's enshrined in the constitution,' says reporter Matilda Boseley – but what does it all mean?

      Explainer
      The?Australian constitution and how a yes vote in the voice referendum would change it

    • Jacinta Allan during her first press conference as Victoria’s premier on Thursday

      The end of the Andrews era
      Where to now for Victoria with Jacinta Allan as premier?

    • Nelli Stevenson in her rental home in Melbourne

      I’m a suburban Melbourne renter. Here’s how I weaned my home off gas and saved money on energy bills

      Nelli Stevenson
    • Fiji’s Simione Kuruvoli plays in the Rugby World Cup match against Australia

      ‘Fiji’s Jonny Wilkinson’
      Island nation embraces Simione Kuruvoli ahead of Rugby World Cup clash

Bird of the year 2023

  • Firstddogonthemoon First Dog on the Moon illustration for Australian Bird of the Year 2023 voting page. Vote for your favourite in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll

    Bird of the year 2023
    Vote now in round five to keep your favourite in the running

  • bar-tailed godwit

    The high-risk life of the bar-tailed godwit
    Endurance flyers under threat from development

  • Plovers2023BOTYpixie

    Is?this Australia’s most trusting bird? No wonder it is endangered

    First Dog on the Moon
    I shall lay my eggs here on this beach where they have been safe for thousands of years
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Sport

  • Arsenal's Steph Catley, Caitlin Foord and Kyra Cooney-Cross

    ‘It feels like home’
    Arsenal’s Australian trio ready for WSL kick-off

    Cooney-Cross, Catley and Foord share their resolve for domestic honours and World Cup highlights
  • Eddie Jones speaks to the media

    Jones Show Trial rolls on amid intensifying Wallabies blowback

    Robert Kitson
    • Ange Postecoglou

      'I was mad about Kenny Dalglish'
      Spurs face Liverpool with Postecoglou relishing clash with childhood team

    • Aaron Smith scores New Zealand’s sixth try in their dominant victory over Italy

      New Zealand 96-17 Italy
      All?Blacks run in 14 tries in World Cup demolition job

    • Esports illustration

      AI?revolution in esports paves path to sport’s digital dissolve

      Barney Ronay
    • Team Europe's Justin Rose celebrates on the 18th after halving the hole in the fourballs

      Ryder Cup
      US?hopes in Roman ruins after Europe make history

Opinion

  • Illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare

    Unless Joe Biden stands aside, the world must prepare for President Trump 2.0

    Timothy Garton Ash
    The Democrats must choose a younger candidate if Donald Trump is to be kept out of the White House, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
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    Fiona Katauskas
    The?housing crisis gives a whole new meaning to home

    Sweet home: but it’s no fairytale ending
    • An older looking man wearing a white t-shirt and blue pants, sitting on the floor, reading a book. A fire burns in the fireplace in the background.

      One?of the hardest parts of getting older? Pondering the ‘me’ in dementia

      Larry F Slonaker
    • Departing Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews

      Daniel Andrews was a visionary leader on climate change but neglected Victoria’s natural environment

      Jono La Nauze
    • Jonathan Freedland

      I’ve got news for Rishi Sunak: he no longer leads the conservative party

      Jonathan Freedland
    • The chair of the royal commission, Ronald Sackville (right), delivers the disability royal commission's final report to the Australian governor general, David Hurley.

      The?disability royal commission report is monumental. All Australians must confront its findings

      Elly Desmarchelier

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Lifestyle

  • Fromn left to right Shea Donohoe, Martin Tan, Mary McGillivray on their grand tours.

    'Europe was my fig tree'
    Gen-Zers are trading gritty gap years for grand tours of continent's cultural charisma

    The number of young Australians travelling for extended periods is falling, but those that do are increasingly choosing Europe
  • Walking Netball<br>Feature on the England Walking Netball club called the ‘Wild Ones’ where women of different ages from 55 - 73 play walking netball at The Portland Centre in Nottingham. Pictured are (l-r) Joan Scarrott(72), Jean Bly(68) and Janet Blair(55). Photo by Fabio De Paola

    Run at 40, dance at 80
    The?best ways to exercise in every decade of your life

  • Painting: Family portrait by Gillis van Tilborgh.

    Leading questions
    Should I validate my teen daughters’ concerns or support their father as a co-parent?

  • Victoria Beckham accepts applause after her spring/summer 2024 womenswear fashion collection in Paris.

    Fashion
    Victoria Beckham raises the barre with ballet-inspired Paris show

  • Nan Hauser sitting on a rock in front of water

    Experience
    A?whale saved me from a shark attack

  • Tube of makeup

    Retinoids work, wipes don’t
    Twenty-one things I’ve learned about skin care

Culture

  • Corey Gamble, Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian and Anna Wintour watching the show

    Victoria Beckham
    New?collection is dance of delight despite Kardashian delay

  • The sound of music cast

    From Audrey Hepburn to Zac Efron
    A?brief history of dubbed singing in Hollywood

    Christopher Plummer isn’t the only star to discover his voice replaced in the movie’s final cut
  • ‘We’re just so bloody old!’ … Michael Caine and John Standing.

    ‘I’m 90. I worry if I’m gonna make it to lunch’
    Michael Caine and John Standing on wives, war and feeling like the Queen

    The actors reflect on class, communism and female cage-fighting
  • Mstyslav Chernov photographed while on assignment for Associated Press in Sloviansk

    ‘It felt like the beginning of the third world war'
    Mstyslav Chernov on 20 Days in Mariupol

  • Kelsey Grammer in the reboot of Frasier; Brie Larson in Lessons in Chemistry'; the original Wiggles cast whose journey is charted in new documentary Hot Potato: The Story of the Wiggles; and Omar Sy in Lupin.

    Streaming in October
    Frasier reboot, Lessons in Chemistry and a Wiggles documentary

  • Paul Newman

    The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man by Paul Newman audiobook review
    Unfiltered Hollywood

  • Cast in and beside a car in Patricia Cornelius’s adaptation of My Sister Jill at Melbourne Theatre Company’s Southbank theatre

    My Sister Jill review
    Patricia Cornelius’s family drama cries out for social realism

Ukraine invasion

  • A fire burns in mined fields and forest strips near the village of Grakovo in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region

    Russia-Ukraine war at a glance
    What we know on day 584 of the invasion

  • Ukrainian servicemen execute a military exercise, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine 28 September 2023.

    What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week?
    Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

  • A Russian checkpoint near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine.

    Zaporizhzhia
    Greenpeace warns over safety of nuclear plant

  • Portugal v Russia - 2019 UEFA European Under-17 Championships Group C<br>Dublin , Ireland - 7 May 2019; Stepan Melnikov of Russia in action against Gerson Sousa of Portugal during the 2019 UEFA European Under-17 Championships Group C match between Portugal and Russia at the UCD Bowl in Dublin. (Photo By Sam Barnes/Sportsfile via Getty Images)

    Football
    Ukraine urges Uefa to reconsider Russia decision and will boycott tournaments

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Across the country

  • Clive Palmer speaks at a microphone in front of a yellow backdrop

    Clive Palmer
    United Australia party leader to launch million-dollar ad blitz for no vote

    Mining magnate to target South Australia and Tasmania in reported $2m national campaign over fortnight up to 14 October
  • The Scales of Justice

    Brisbane
    Kenyan politician who said ‘the devil has gone now’ after bashing three-year-old son jailed for manslaughter

  • José Ramos-Horta

    Timor-Leste
    Australian intelligence agencies ‘know very well’ China deal is of no concern, Ramos-Horta says

  • Joan Collins playing the role of Alexis Colby in TV show Dynasty, is in a bubble bath, confronted by a man with a gun

    Five Great Reads
    Joan Collins, William the Conqueror and one of the world’s most fascinating cities

    • The weekly beast
      AFR’s power list goes deep fake with the likes of Sam Kerr and Margot Robbie to make a point

      Amanda Meade

    • Queensland
      Court awards temporary order prohibiting the naming of high-profile man accused of rape

    • Townsville arrest
      Couch-surfing host allegedly spied on guests with camera hidden in bug spray

    • Royal commission
      Disability advocates urge faster phase-out of segregated education

    • Cadia goldmine
      Newcrest pleads guilty to breaching clean air regulations

    • Papua New Guinea
      Former detainees face eviction after Australian-sponsored bills not paid

The rural network

  • Nikita Hunter and her four-year-old daughter Isla

    Prescription dilemma
    Rural areas want cheaper medicines – but they don’t want their pharmacies to close

  • KOOKABURRA<br>A pair of Australian kookaburra's sit on a tree beside the first green during the first round of the World Match Play Golf Championships at Metropolitan Golf Course, Melbourne, Australia Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2001. The American golfers kept looking up because of the bird laughing sound which was disruping their putting stroke. (AP Photo/Russell McPhedran)

    Hearing is believing in the power of the kookaburras’ raucous chorus

    Calla Wahlquist
  • Landscape with deeply cracked red soil &amp; trees on horizon under blue sky in outback Australia during devastating drought

    'Lasting public benefit’
    Drought funding should focus on more permanent outcomes – review

  • Gabrielle Chan

    Regional Australia believes in a fair go, so what does that mean for the voice?

    Gabrielle Chan

Around the world

  • A person almost completely covered in gear, from a helmet with goggles and mouthpiece to a dark green uniform, appears to walk away from a helicopter.

    Kosovo
    White House warns of ‘unprecedented’ Serbian troop buildup on border

  • The felled Sycamore Gap tree in Northumberland.

    Sycamore Gap
    Man, 60, arrested in connection with felled tree in UK

    • Amazonian dolphins
      Mass death prompts fears for vulnerable species

    • Tesla
      Company sued for severe harassment of Black workers at California plant

    • Robert F Kennedy Jr
      Scion of US political dynasty to run for president as independent in 2024 – report

    • GB News
      Calvin Robinson is third presenter suspended in three days

    • Nuclear disarmament
      CND?co-founder Pat Arrowsmith dies aged 93

    • OceanGate accident
      Titan sub disaster movie in the offing

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  • The voice
    The?Australian constitution and how a yes vote in the referendum would change it

    'A large group of First Nations representatives have called for an Indigenous voice to parliament that's enshrined in the constitution,' says reporter Matilda Boseley – but what does it all mean?
  • Anthony Albanese with supporters from the Yes23 campaign including Bennelong MP Jerome Laxale

    Australian Politics podcast
    ‘A yes result will be unifying’: Albanese on the final push forward for the voice

  • Lens flair
    The?Bowness photography prize

  • Competition day in Glasgow

    Go Team Sharkie!
    Scotland’s disco lassies

  • Multimillion-pound home in Summertown, Oxford, with a showstopper kitchen.

    Fantasy house hunt
    UK?homes with amazing kitchens

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  • Expensive looking yachts in the harbour

    ‘Saint-Tropez has become LVMH Ville’
    Locals slam super-rich ‘takeover’

    The annual influx of billionaires is leading to ‘odious’ practices in the French Riviera town
  • Marmots have long been beloved mountain inhabitants – this Himalayan marmot specimen was photographed in China’s Qilian Mountains, encountering a fox as it left hibernation. As the climate warms, more foxes are entering alpine marmot habitats.

    They kill their own parents, children and neighbours
    Now?life is even worse for the vicious alpine marmot

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    The hottest summer in human history
    A?visual timeline

    • The secret world of breast cancer
      Seventeen surprising things I wish I’d known

    • ‘Lachlan Murdoch is a Hamlet figure’
      Michael Wolff unpicks the real-life succession drama

    • ‘Nature embraces queer people’
      Inside the UK show about the LGBTQ+ side of plants

    • When the drugs don’t work
      Can?we do anything about antimicrobial resistance?

    • ‘It was like Blade Runner meets Berlin rave’
      The?Manchester sink estate with the UK’s wildest nightclub

    • ‘Korea is hiding our past’
      The?adoptees searching for their families – and the truth

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    A?space exhibition and the Clooneys

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world

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