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Monday8 July 2024
  • A view outside the Cairns district police headquarters

    Exclusive
    Concerns over 13-year-old in Queensland watch house ignored days before alleged sexual assault

    Psychologists and youth workers raised concerns and pleaded with youth justice department for a transfer to a safer facility
  • Vehicle-to-grid enabled electric vehicles used in ANU project

    Energy
    Electric vehicles could help ease grid instability by sending power back into system

  • Wimbledon 2024 - Day Eight - All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club<br>Alex de Minaur celebrates winning a set against Arthur Fils (not pictured) on day eight of the 2024 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London. Picture date: Monday July 8, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story TENNIS Wimbledon. Photo credit should read: Mike Egerton/PA Wire. RESTRICTIONS: Editorial use only. No commercial use without prior written consent of the AELTC. Still image use only - no moving images to emulate broadcast. No superimposing or removal of sponsor/ad logos.

    Alex de Minaur lays Wimbledon ghosts to rest to reach last eight for first time

    Australian No 1 beats France’s Arthur Fils 6-2 6-4 4-6 6-3 and banishes memory of losing two-set lead in 2022
    • Palestinian flag at the Sovereignty Day Rally on the forecourt of Parliament House after they marched over the lake from the city in Canberra this morning. Friday 26th January 2024. Photograph by Mike Bowers. Guardian Australia.

      Politics
      Who are the grassroots Muslim groups with an eye on Labor seats?

    • Gambling
      Labor urged to outlaw betting ‘rewards’ luring Australians into gambling

    • Queensland
      Toowoomba religious group to face trial over death of eight-year-old girl with diabetes

    • US elections
      Democrats face pressure of revealing if they back Biden as Congress reconvenes

    • Investigation
      Students under near constant surveillance at Exclusive Brethren-linked schools, insiders claim

    • Ukraine
      Rescuers search rubble of Kyiv children’s hospital after Russian missile attack kills at least 29

    • Analysis
      Jacinta Allan’s message is clear: Melbourne airport has missed its chance to fast track rail link

    • Science
      Autism could be diagnosed with stool sample, scientists say

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Spotlight

  • One of our finest chroniclers of transformation: Missy Higgins

    Missy Higgins soundtracked my generation of queer teens. Seeing her live was euphoric

    Joseph Earp
    Her debut album The Sound of White turns 20 this year. It’s still brilliantly queer and as heart-stirring as ever
  • Composite image featuring (L-R) Thermal wear by Australian label Merino Country and icebreaker SS24 Women Siren Cami

    Closet clinic
    What lies beneath: how to layer thermals for winter dressing

  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds first press conference

    Full Story
    Is Labour’s landslide win in the UK election a reason for hope?

    After a landslide win in the UK, can Labour use their majority to tackle the huge inequality around the country today?
  • Young woman sitting on couch looking at mobile phone

    Love and theft: Why is Australia’s online dating app safety code only voluntary?

    Lisa Portolan
    Realistically, we don’t just need self-regulation, but a comprehensive societal approach
    • man dressed in costume with a crown photographed in blue-ish light

      Film
      ‘Opened my whole world up’: inside Oscar-tipped prison theater drama Sing Sing

    • A pen lies beside a notepad on which is written: 'Don't date a bartender'

      Advice
      The memo: could one missed message have saved me a lifetime of regret?

    • Jack Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier<br>John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier sit together in the sunshine at Kennedy's family home at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, a few months before their wedding.

      Book of the day
      Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan review – a lacerating exposé

    • Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.

      Do you struggle to accept rejection? We could all learn a lot from American cheerleaders

      Emma Beddington

Sport

  • Mason Greenwood is presented as a Getafe player last September.

    Manchester United
    Marseille in advanced talks to buy Mason Greenwood

  • Rohan Browning of Australia wins the 200m men's final at the 2024 Maurie Plant Meet

    Paris Olympics
    Browning squeaks into 100m event as Australia’s athletics team finalised

    Sprinter Rohan Browning has secured a place in the 100m event at the Paris Olympics despite a form slump which left him on the verge of missing out
    • Jimmy Anderson poses for a portrait in the Long Room at Lord's.

      Cricket
      Jimmy Anderson insists he ‘could still do a job’ for England as final Test looms

    • England’s Henry Slade tackles Codie Taylor during New Zealand’s 16-15 first Test win at Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin.

      Rugby union
      Felix Jones determined England defence will keep blitzing All Blacks

    • Lewis Hamilton celebrates holding a union jack flag alongside Peter Bonnington on the podium

      Formula One
      ‘Fairytale’ win inspires Hamilton to believe in more victories with Mercedes

    • Greece's Giannis Antetokounmpo

      Basketball
      Australia’s ‘group of death’ confirmed for Olympic men’s tournament

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Opinion

  • A rally at Place de la République, Lyon, after the results of the second round of the 2024 legislative elections were announced.

    The Guardian view on the French election: time to build a republican future

    Editorial
  • Justine Greening

    Leaderless, rudderless, purposeless – the Tories have just one chance to stave off extinction

    Justine Greening
    • Joe Biden boards Air Force One to depart at Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, Wisconsin.

      Democrats don’t just need a new candidate. They need a reckoning

      Osita Nwanevu
    • row of flags on grass in front of a building

      The Nato alliance should not invite Ukraine to become a member

      Open letter
    • Polly Toynbee

      Cleaning up our fetid politics is Keir Starmer’s toughest task yet. Here’s how he can do it, fast

      Polly Toynbee
    • Paul Taylor

      In a referendum on Le Pen, French voters said ‘non’. This opportunity must not be squandered

      Paul Taylor

Lifestyle

  • Illustration of a person lying on their back with a ball between their knees

    Halfway there
    First my left knee, then my right: my middle-aged body’s betrayal

    I won’t ‘bounce back’ from my injuries. But it is a privilege to live – to walk, dance and even fall – in an ageing body
  • Illustration of woman running past people waiting at a bus stop that is in front of big letters saying 5am

    Sleep
    The cult of 5am: is rising at dawn the secret of health and happiness?

  • Megan Burslem

    Three things
    ABC Classic’s Megan Burslem: ‘My earplugs are handy for gigs and when a dad sneezes’

  • A silhouette of a couple embracing at dusk as they looking out a window on to a cityscape

    We often turn to loved ones for support but relationships can falter if our feelings are ignored

    Gaynor Parkin and Amanda Wallis
  • The lesser-spotted Rachel Roddy flatbread.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for flatbreads with yoghurt

  • A closeup of the face of a red fox in a meadow.

    The pet I'll never forget
    The fox I invited into my home – but never quite trusted

Culture

  • Jesus Speaks to the Daughters of Jerusalem by artist Philjames

    Sydney
    Artwork featuring Christ overlaid with Looney Tunes characters removed by council after threats of violence

  • ALICE MUNRO

    Canada
    Alice Munro knew my stepfather sexually abused me as a child, says Nobel laureate’s daughter

    Andrea Robin Skinner says her stepfather sexually assaulted her when she was nine, but her mother said she ‘loved him too much’ to leave him
  • Neil Dudgeon as DCI John Barnaby, Nick Hendrix as DS Jamie Winter and Kate Robbins as Lyra Kaine in The Blacktrees Prophecy.

    Pass notes
    ‘Some violent moments’: does Midsomer Murders really need a trigger warning?

    The TV show depicts cosy villages, bedevilled by crime. And yes, seeing someone crushed by a giant wheel of cheese is scary – but isn’t the clue in the title?
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Across the country

  • An artist's impression the proposed above-ground Melbourne airport train station in Tullamarine.

    Victoria
    Melbourne airport backdown on station paves way for long-awaited train link

    Airport’s chief executive Lorie Argus says it will adopt the state government’s preferred above-ground station
  • Climate protester Laura Davy

    Blockade Australia
    Climate activist sentenced to three months in jail over Port of Newcastle protest

  • Ben Woodbury at his design store

    Guardian investigation
    Years at Exclusive Brethren school were ‘darkest moments of my life’, former student says

    Ben Woodbury says school run by sect was not a safe environment for him, with limited access to external counselling services
    • NSW police tape

      NSW
      Man arrested after woman allegedly stabbed to death in Sydney home

    • Northern Territory
      Police impose three-night curfew on Alice Springs after more violence

    • Murder trial
      Amber Haigh showed cousin bruises on wrists she said were from being tied up by Robert Geeves, court hears

    • Newcastle
      Teenager felt ‘scared and anxious’ before alleged bucks party rape

    • Media
      Vice, Kotaku and Refinery29 to no longer publish in Australia after Pedestrian Group announces restructure

    • Ballarat
      ‘She has never been gone for this long’: police release video in hope of finding missing woman

    • Youth justice
      Mandatory life terms for Queensland children who murder would breach Human Rights Act, lawyers say

    • Afternoon Update
      Leftwing victory in France; three-night curfew in Alice Springs; and a successful four-day work week trial

The rural network

  • Karen Mansbridge with her horse

    Kingaroy
    ‘Every step of the way, no one cared’: pensioner says solar farm next door has left her unable to sell her property

  • Katy McCallum, One Nation candidate for Gympie and vice-chair of the National Rational Energy Network, speaks at a meeting on renewable energy projects in Kilcoy

    Backlash
    ‘There’s angry people out there’: inside the renewable energy resistance in regional Australia

  • Blockade Australia spokesperson Brad Homewood with climbing apparatus

    Climate crisis
    Blockade Australia plans more protests disrupting Newcastle trains, saying disobedience is the only option

  • The avian influenza outbreaks in Victoria, New South Wales and the ACT have resulted in the destruction of about two million chickens

    Explainer
    Egg shortage: why the avian influenza outbreak has left shoppers and farmers shell-shocked

Around the world

  • Woman pours ballot papers on to a table

    UK
    ‘Disproportionate’ election results boost calls to ditch first past the post

    Campaigners for electoral reform say outcome has renewed pressure for proportional representation

    • UK
      Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan accused of being ‘serial tax evaders’

    • Assisted dying
      UK woman who admitted ending terminally ill son’s life in 1981 dies

    • Pakistan
      Breast milk bank closes after Islamic clerics withdraw approval

    • US politics
      Democrats face pressure of revealing if they back Biden as Congress reconvenes

    • Washington
      Biden’s health and threat of a second Trump term loom over Nato summit

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  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds first press conference

    Full Story
    Is Labour’s landslide win in the UK election a reason for hope?

    After a landslide win in the UK, can Labour use their majority to tackle the huge inequality around the country today?
  • A blurred picture of people passing through a station with arrows pointing in different directions on the floor.

    Japan
    Tokyo’s oldest train line – in pictures

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    Opinion cartoon
    The unwritten rules of multiculturalism as explained by an older white man

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    Cartoon
    From carbon offsetting to my toothbrush head: Edith Pritchett’s week in Venn diagrams

  • People sheltering from rain under a Wimbledon towel.

    Tennis
    Rain, set and match: a day at Wimbledon 2024 – in pictures

  • Nicola Jennings on the big cleaning-up job facing Labour – cartoon

    UK opinion cartoon
    Nicola Jennings on the cleaning-up job facing Labour

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  • Jacqueline Crooks pictured among a collage showing children in a park, a library sign, Tower Bridge, a for rent sign, social housing blocks, and headlines about energy bills

    UK election
    My home town: how London changed under Conservative rule

    As Labour takes power for the first time in 14 years, the Southall-raised novelist Jacqueline Crooks reflects on a more isolated and expensive city
  • The British territory of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

    Indian Ocean
    Purgatory in paradise: how a shipwreck off Diego Garcia led to three years of hell and horror

  • Array of sculptures in the gallery

    Sculpture
    ‘We want to ruffle a few feathers’: Liverpool gallery confronts colonial past

  • Fossil fuels
    ‘Will you stop exploring yours?’: Latin America forges ahead on new oil frontier

  • UK election
    Tony Blair’s new dawn of 1997 offers landslide lessons for Keir Starmer

  • Hunting
    Trophy killings spark fierce battle over the future of super tusker elephants

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    Wimbledon 2024: Fritz fights back to stun Zverev, Rune v Djokovic to come – live

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