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Inflation, unemployment, interest rate hikes: is it any wonder Australia’s misery index is rising?

Disturbing news this week that Australia’s “misery index” has experienced significant growth. This was even before the Reserve Bank slugged...

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Van Badham

Australia’s military should be held to account – but it’s the individual soldier who pulls the trigger

C alls are growing for senior officers to be held accountable for the alleged war crimes carried out by some of our special forces personnel during...

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Rodger Shanahan

El Niño is coming. We must plan for the worst to protect Australia’s energy system

T he Bureau of Meteorology this week declared a 70% chance of an El Niño developing this year. It’s bad timing for the electricity sector, and...

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Dylan Mcconnell And Iain Macgill

The weekly beast Sun sets on David Koch’s 21 years of breakfast television with farewell extravaganza

After 21 years on breakfast television David “Kochie” Koch said goodbye to Seven’s Sunrise on Friday with none other than Anthony Albanese...

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Amanda Meade

As Russia’s armed forces fight among themselves, it’s hard to know who’s in control

C oming just a day before the world’s media became submerged in the tragic aftermath of the explosion of the Kakhovka dam in Russian-controlled...

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Samantha De Bendern

The dismal story of modern football can be summed up in two words: Manchester City

O n Saturday 11 October 1975, my dad took me to my first ever football match: Aston Villa (hooray!) against Tottenham Hotspur (boo!). I would be...

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Phil Mongredien

Notes on a scandal: this is how Starmer’s bullies took out Jamie Driscoll – and why it matters

I first met the man who has been all over this week’s political headlines four years ago, 300 miles up the A1 from Westminster. It was a bitterly...

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Aditya Chakrabortty

Prince Harry is not wrong to feel injustice, but he won’t find vindication in a court of law

N ever mind waiting for Mr Justice Fancourt to produce his findings, the tabloid newspapers were declaring their collective triumph before Prince...

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Zoe Williams

Your partner wants the truth? They can’t handle the truth! At least, according to film and TV

T he premise of You Hurt My Feelings, a new movie by Nicole Holofcener starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, is deceptively simple: to what degree, when...

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Emma Brockes

As migrants, we were sold a home and an Australian dream of financial security. Now we feel cheated

W e consider ourselves a middle class Australian family. This hasn’t always been the case. My husband and I come from migrant families and did...

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May Aziz

Can the yes campaign overcome the cold political calculus of Australia’s voice referendum?

The arc of campaigning for and against the Indigenous voice to parliament is bending towards back rooms and the hard calculus of politics. The...

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Hugh Riminton

Must we hate Noel Gallagher’s version of Love Will Tear Us Apart? I’m loving it

W hen it comes to cover versions, there seems to be an unspoken rule: be careful if the artist is dead. Sure, some covers surpass their originals,...

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Rich Pelley

Weight-loss drugs aren’t a magic bullet for Britain’s obesity crisis

It’s over three years now since a visibly chastened Boris Johnson emerged from his near-fatal brush with Covid to declare that he had seen the...

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Gaby Hinsliff

Labour won’t be able to instantly fix every Tory failure. But social care would be a good place to start

I ndignation fatigue makes it hard to keep track of the many public service failures, so social care has fallen from the public eye since Covid –...

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Polly Toynbee

People call me brave for going through cancer treatment – but the scary bit starts now

I am probably the wussiest person I know. I almost cried when I somehow found myself on the pirate ship at Chessington World of Adventures. If you...

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Hilary Osborne

Hell is the sound of other people chewing popcorn. Still, you can’t keep me away from the cinema

O ne of the things I missed most during Covid lockdowns was going to the cinema. I’m not a film snob by any stretch of the imagination. I have...

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Rebecca Shaw

The Guardian view on Prince Harry: rewriting the rules of royalty

P rince Harry’s war with the tabloid press this week became a courtroom battle, with words as weapons. His antipathy can be traced to his...

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Rich Pelley

The CNN chief messed up in many ways. Only one of them was fatal

It was one of those pieces of news that was simultaneously stunning and utterly expected: Chris Licht was out of CNN. No doubt, the chairman and...

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Margaret Sullivan

Caroline Lucas was the best PM Britain never had – but she’s shown us how to fix our politics

W ith our forlorn sense that politics isn’t working and that democracy is broken, as we feel the impacts of both climate change and the decision...

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Neal Lawson

The die is cast: petrol and diesel engines are dying. The electric age is inevitable

I t should by now be clear to all vehicle manufacturers and policymakers that the electric vehicle (EV) age is all but inevitable. Most drivers...

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Ben Lane

I swam down Ghana’s Volta River for 40 days to show the true cost of cheap clothes

M y body has taught me that few things are impossible when you take your time. Sometimes I’m taken aback by how natural this has all felt to me....

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Yvette Yaa Konadu Tetteh

First Dog on the Moon A teacher explains why the Ben Roberts-Smith exhibit has been moved at the war memorial

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First Dog

Rishi Sunak’s White House jolly can’t mask the fact that Brexit Britain is a fading power

T he Americans know how to make a prime minister feel special. It isn’t hard. Saying “you are special” or words to that effect, usually does the...

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Rafael Behr

Book bans are sweeping US schools. A surprising new victim? The Bible

W hen I was a teenager, I read Genesis for the first and only time. It was quite the revelation. Excuse me, I would say with teenage zeal, to...

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Arwa Mahdawi

Anyone who goes to a beach already has a ‘beach body’. Don’t strive for an illusion

A s summer weather begins, and bare arms and legs start to appear across the country, and people start to worry about their “beach body”, maybe...

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Devi Sridhar

Grogonomics The economy is slowing, yet the RBA seems desperate to ensure this is as good as it gets for a long time

D uring the GFC the line for how to stimulate and save the economy was “go hard; go households”. The Reserve Bank has adopted the same mantra but...

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Greg Jericho

Cram them into a shoebox: that’s Britain’s new anti-migrant strategy – and it won’t work

S uitcases and bin bags full of simple possessions strewn across a central London street have become a powerful symbol of the government’s ramping...

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Enver Solomon

Autocorrect can be ‘ducking’ annoying, but we’ll miss its accidental poetry when it’s gone

Anyone who has spent any time in the world of Instagram wellness will be familiar with the notion that gratitude can ward off the blues. It’s...

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Coco Khan

The Guardian view on Labour’s green prosperity plan: the right strategy for Britain

P lacing a speculative price tag on Labour party spending plans is, of course, a time-honoured pre-election manoeuvre by Conservative governments....

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Nancy Jo Sales

My home is cosy and comfortable, and there’s a kettle. Why would I want a night out?

I ’m off to see Groundhog Day, the musical, at the Old Vic in London. It’s based on the 1993 film in which Bill Murray’s character relives the...

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Rich Pelley

Anyone who’s lost a loved one knows the pressure to visit shrines to the past. But it doesn’t always help

I f you could drop a pin on the map of your grief, where would you travel to? In the early days of mine, I would have motioned you to the toilet in...

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Kat Lister

Vote Liberal? You should vote yes for an Indigenous voice to parliament

W e are approaching a referendum which will ask if constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians should be in the form requested by...

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Kate Carnell

Americans want to join unions. The supreme court doesn’t like that

T heir contract had expired, so the local teamsters, drivers of concrete-mixing barrel trucks for a firm called Glacier Northwest, in Washington...

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Moira Donegan

Ten years ago, Edward Snowden warned us about state spying. Spare a thought for him, and worry about the future

Even amid the cacophony of social media, most journalism is met with a shrug or a murmur. But ​one story the Guardian published 10 years ago...

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Alan Rusbridger

And a big welcome back to Holly! But lose the sanctimony – it’s not OK with the British public

B y now you may be all over Holly Willoughby’s Hollier-than-thou return to This Morning, given that Guardian readers sent coverage of the event...

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Marina Hyde

At least 100 million people are eligible to run for US president. Why are we left with Robert F Kennedy Jr?

R obert F Kennedy Jr likes to talk to dead people. In a recent interview, the anti-vaccine activist, who is challenging President Joe Biden for the...

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Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian view on asylum policy: cruelty is a feature not a bug of the system

C ontrary to popular opinion, Britain is a country with few asylum seekers, in contrast with its comparable neighbours. Last year, it recorded...

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Simon Jenkins

I’m a trans teen in Missouri. Why is the state trying to take away my healthcare?

A ccording to a Washington Post-KFF poll, only 43% of cisgender people (a person whose gender identity aligns with their assigned sex at birth) know...

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Chelsea Freels

Climate risks are making California uninsurable. When will we wake up?

S tate Farm, the country’s largest property insurer, announced this week that it will almost entirely stop issuing new policies in California,...

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Kate Aronoff

Kathleen Folbigg was demonised by a legal system that even punished efforts to establish her innocence

F or more than 20 years, the Australian legal system has demonised a grieving mother as a child killer. Kathleen Folbigg was convicted in 2003 of...

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Emma Cunliffe

The rural network, Victoria As kids, we all piled into the farm ute. But now quad bikes are out and helmets are in

I spent most school holidays in primary school hanging off the back of a quad bike while grandma did the afternoon chores. If you clung on tightly...

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Calla Wahlquist

The disturbing rise of Mizzy: this is what happens when culture values nothing but attention

W hen I first came across Mizzy, now infamous as the “TikTok Terror”, it was in videos of him being chased by security after breaking into...

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Jason Okundaye

How do we find the right words to tell a cognitively impaired doctor they are not fit to practice?

Decades ago, during a staff shortage, I was promoted to a more senior role where I was responsible for a ward full of sick patients requiring many...

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Ranjana Srivastava

AI bots chatting up matches on dating apps? This won’t end well

O ver the last few months, there’s been a stream of stories in the media that try very hard to convince us that artificial intelligence – AI –...

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Nancy Jo Sales

States haven’t stopped spying on their citizens, post-Snowden – they’ve just got sneakier

I t’s been 10 years since Edward Snowden holed up in a Hong Kong hotel room and exposed Britain and America’s mass surveillance operations to a...

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Heather Brooke

So this is British justice: Boris Johnson gets legal aid and a mother of three on the breadline doesn’t

B oris Johnson is a very rich man, even though he suffers from a self-pitying syndrome that afflicts many of the well-off: believing himself to be...

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Owen Jones

A campaign against inheritance tax led by a multimillionaire? These really are desperate times for the Tories

G overning parties in their death throes thrash about, gasping for life rafts and hunting through old lists to recapture the tried-and-tested vote-...

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Polly Toynbee

I tried to ban Facebook – but my husband won’t give up his meat videos

I ’ve worked pretty hard to ban the use of Facebook in the household, not because of the threat it poses to democracy, nor because I’m worried...

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Zoe Williams

Five things the debt-ceiling deal suggests about the future

1. House MAGA Republicans will be less of a force. It was supposed to be their ace in the hole, their single biggest bargaining leverage. But in...

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Robert Reich

You can get Sad in summer – as I know only too well

I don’t really understand why I’m still on Twitter, a mouse hopefully pressing the button that used to dispense treats, but which now only...

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Emma Beddington

Exam season makes everyone unhappy. Why do we put up with it?

I n September 2013, I thought I was the most intelligent person ever to exist. By some masterstroke of family planning, I’d managed to have two...

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Zoe Williams

Keir Starmer says he wants to empower local communities. The Jamie Driscoll affair suggests otherwise

I t’s what they do, not what they say. All opposition leaders are localists until it matters. Keir Starmer said in January he wanted to “take...

05.06.2023 3

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Simon Jenkins

Kim Jong-un’s new border wall could be a sign that his grip on North Korea is slipping

W hen I was a kid, I had a friend who was a smuggler. “You tell anyone about this – our lives are over ,” he threatened, and suddenly...

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Timothy Cho

First Dog on the Moon What even is El Niño? To be honest nobody really understands or cares any more

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First Dog

The Guardian view on Bloomsbury’s success: publishing wizardry

I n the gloom of a UK economy teetering on the edge of recession, a glittering puff of smoke wafted up last week from the publisher that will for...

05.06.2023 3

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Emma Wilkins

Forget Twitter, my local dog park is the real town square

W hen our dog died last year, amid the grief was – I admit – a sense of relief. Life was busy with two young kids and their commitments, to say...

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Myke Bartlett

Dear Jeremy Hunt, I’d love to get a job. But thanks to your social care crisis, I can’t

T he chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has been calling for people to get back to work. But there’s one group of people he’s overlooked. Many unpaid...

05.06.2023 3

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Denise Wilkins

Bruce Lehrmann tells his side of the story in a TV interview – so why did he decline to in court?

V iewers of Channel Seven’s interview with Bruce Lehrmann on Sunday were told that this was a special occasion because it was the first opportunity...

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Richard Ackland

Spain’s snap election could kill its housing revolution before it even gets started

A housing revolution is taking place in Spain. On 26 May, a monumental new housing law came into force. It was the culmination of years of work and...

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Eduardo González De Molina

Why I quit I was overwhelmed by shame when I quit grad school. Now I’m a quitting guru

F irst came the sobbing – a great gust of tears that successively overwhelmed my shirt sleeve, an entire box of tissues and an extra-large bath...

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Julia Keller

For better or for worse: is the decline in marriage actually good for relationships?

O ne of the curious things about marriage is the role it’s played in embedding commonly held views about normality. Married people are generally...

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Devorah Baum

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