Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Guardian Australia

What’s your favourite journalist’s favourite piece of journalism?

From Paul Barry to Alan Kohler to Sally Neighbour, we asked 200 of the nation’s most influential media figures about the best pieces of journalism they’ve read lately.

Crikey

Remaining Bali Nine members return to Australia after 19 years

Australia and Indonesia struck a deal to return home the final remaining members of the Bali Nine drug trafficking group, and the mid-year fiscal update is showing bad news for Jim Chalmers.

Crikey

The rise of a ‘dangerous’ ideology among parents is causing havoc in custody disputes

Self-declared sovereign citizens, who believe Australia’s laws do not apply to them, are having a serious impact on the family court, experts say

The Guardian - AU

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Australia’s media movers and shakers on who survives in Australian journalism

From Jordan Baker to Justin Stevens, we asked 200 of the nation’s most influential media figures who will survive in this media climate and what they have to do to tough it out.

Crikey

The 25 best Australian books of 2024: Helen Garner, Tim Winton, Nam Le and more

Just in time for your Christmas shopping: Guardian Australia’s critics and staff pick out the best of the best

The Guardian - AU

New plan seeks to force big tech to pay for Australian journalism

Anthony Albanese is making a new pitch to force social media companies to pay for Australian news, and has been criticised for supporting a ban on demonstrating outside places of worship.

Crikey

Rogue taxi drivers ‘preying’ on Victorians as industry grapples with national crisis

The state’s laws enable independent cabbies to overcharge with ‘no checks and balances’. But nowhere in Australia has a perfect system

The Guardian - AU

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Albo adds childcare subsidies to reelection pitch

Anthony Albanese is strengthening his reelection bid with promises of more subsidised childcare, and we’re still waiting on Peter Dutton’s long-promised nuclear power costings.

Crikey

$200 taxi fares for a 5km trip: how illegal overcharging is surging – even as Victorian police are forced to crack down

Exclusive: Industry says Melbourne police having to force an entire rank of cabs to turn on their meters shows regulators have failed to stamp out rogue taxis

The Guardian - AU

‘This is just a photo op’: anger greets Albanese as he tours Melbourne synagogue destroyed by arson

Four days after Adass Israel was attacked, the prime minister visited the site and called for unity, but among the surging crowd the mood was one of frustration and blame

The Guardian - AU

People are exhausted, angry and anxious: what I learned from your stories of Australia’s housing affordability crisis

Hundreds of reader replies about housing create a picture of overwhelming insecurity. People across the income spectrum are being forced to change the way they live

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: nuclear lobby hijacks renewables anger, arrest after healthcare CEO shooting, what we Googled in 2024

Real fears about the impact of schemes are being exploited by those opposed to clean energy

The Guardian - AU

How anger at Australia’s rollout of renewables is being hijacked by a new pro-nuclear network

An alliance of political groups is harnessing real fears about the local impact of wind and solar farms – and using them to spruik nuclear power

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: synagogue fire fallout; Assad’s palace overrun; and ABC breakfast replacements revealed

Friday’s arson attack on the Adass Israel synagogue in Melbourne is now being treated by police as an act of terrorism

The Guardian - AU

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Crikey

Any minute now, Dutton is absolutely, totally, definitely going to release costings for his nuclear policy

The Coalition has been talking about its nuclear energy plans for more than two years. And for more than two years, we’ve been told the details are right around the corner.

The Guardian - AU

Australian children seeing gambling ads via Sportsbet filter on instant messaging app Snapchat

Exclusive: Filters, including one that turns a person into a horse, include Sportsbet logos and direct 18+ users to open a gambling account

The Guardian - AU

Meet the forever renters: ‘Nobody wants to be in share housing when they’re in their late 70s’

After long careers and now expecting easier lives, a cohort of older Australians are instead struggling with housing affordability and security

The Guardian - AU

Investigation into contractor that faked voice referendum data extended to two federal election campaigns

AEC ‘incredibly disappointed’ after internal documents obtained by Guardian Australia revealed probe into market researcher was extended to previous projects

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - AU

Agency overseeing $368bn Aukus deal in morale crisis paid consultancy $9.5m for management advice

Exclusive: Australian Submarine Agency’s ten-month contract with McKinsey says it’ll deliver skills ‘currently unavailable’ within government department

Crikey

Five Eyes countries warn of youth radicalisation

ASIO director-general Mike Burgess said every Australian terrorist attack, disruption and suspected terrorist incident in 2024 was perpetrated by a young person, and Albo is off to pitch clean energy to WA.

The Guardian - AU

McKinsey paid $1.6m to ‘guide’ Australian climate policy despite working for fossil fuel companies

Firm disclosed its private sector work, Guardian Australia is told, but it is not known which clients were listed

The Guardian - AU

Former senior bureaucrat Dennis Richardson to lead urgent review into agency tasked with $368bn Aukus contract

Former senior defence and foreign affairs secretary will focus on governance in his probe of Australian Submarine Agency

The Guardian - AU

Agency in charge of Australia’s $368bn submarine program faces staff morale crisis

Exclusive: the 17-month-old department has lost a senior leader and ranked second worst for staff wellbeing in the annual public service census

Crikey

Australia experiences worst growth rate in decades

The September quarter saw Australia’s economy experience its weakest growth in decades (outside of the pandemic), and the government is considering taking more power bill discounts to the next election.

The Guardian - AU

Lindt and supermarket home brands criticised by consumer group for ‘shrinkflation’ on items including chocolates, cakes, and tarts

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations