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Reserve Bank announcement due at 2.30pm AEST. Follow liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastBurke says the loophole only applies to where the business has agreed on a minimum rate of pay:The loopholes are really simple … which is, if an employer agrees with their workforce and registers, this […]
Emily Wind (now) and Natasha May (earlier)Industry submissions on harm reduction plan at times misused evidence, academics say, but health minister says there’s ‘no suggestion’ the strategy was influencedFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s alcohol industry continues to “manipulate, misuse and ignore evidence in attempts […]
Melissa Davey Medical editorThe man has appeared in a Canberra court accused of stealing Kyrgios’s car from the tennis star’s motherFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe man accused of stealing Nick Kyrgios’s car from the tennis star’s mother at gunpoint has pleaded […]
Australian Associated PressJustice Anthony Besanko’s full verdict describes how Australia’s most decorated soldier lied to save his reputationFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast“The applicant [Ben Roberts-Smith] has no reputation capable of being further harmed.”Tucked away at the bottom of more than […]
Ben DohertyJoel Russo, 29, has been handed a 17-year minimum jail sentence with a judge saying he was an ‘extremely dangerous offender’Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA violent serial rapist who dragged a woman into a creek and tried to […]
Australian Associated PressLiu Fang tells how her family lived privately in the US for eight years, until two men turned up at their door in first US trial arising from China’s ‘Operation Fox Hunt’The wife of a Chinese former official has described in court the moment their life in the US was “turned upside down” by Chinese […]
Associated PressMore than 33,000 fines were rescinded last year after a supreme court ruling, but correspondence from authorities suggests thousands more will standFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe New South Wales government is signalling it will not withdraw any additional […]
Christopher KnausAfter 16 South Americans were abandoned outside a church on Friday, another flight of 20 migrants arrived on Monday morningFor the second time in four days, Florida picked up people seeking asylum and took them by private jet to Sacramento at taxpayer expense, California officials said on Monday after another flight arrived at a local […]
Richard Luscombe in MiamiUkraine has enough weapons to begin counteroffensive, says foreign minister; Zelenskiy welcomes ‘the news we have been waiting for’ from BakhmutSee all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageUkrainian troops went on the attack at multiple points along the frontline in the Donetsk region on Monday, driving back Russian forces in at least two areas in what appeared […]
Guardian staff and agenciesThe homes are advertised as ‘resilient to extreme weather’ and also keep out insects and rodents, according to manufacturer Plus 1Home Depot has quietly entered the real estate market.The US home improvement store giant appeared to debut its new tiny home or “getaway pad”, by home-kit manufacturing company Plus 1, last year, and it’s currently […]
Erum SalamAgent who took more than $1.4m in cash and diamonds to trade secrets is believed to have died of natural causes at age 79Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent who took more than $1.4m in cash and diamonds to trade secrets with Moscow, in one of the most notorious spying cases in American history, died […]
Associated PressConsumers increasingly claim that manufacturers are reducing the size of products, Barclays research findsHard-pressed consumers feel they are becoming the victims of food industry “shrinkflation” amid signs the UK’s persistent cost of living crisis is making households more alert to the need to get value for money.With food prices up by almost 20% in the […]
Larry Elliott Economics editorA group of nearly 1,000 protesters, mostly women, demanded a ban on all guns – a move the governor said would be unconstitutionalHundreds of women staged a sit-in outside Colorado’s capitol on Monday, calling on the state’s Democratic governor to ban all guns, a move his office said “would simply be unconstitutional”.The gun-ban protest included […]
Lois BeckettExclusive: party calls for developers without a licence to be barred from working on advanced AI toolsThe UK should bar technology developers from working on advanced artificial intelligence tools unless they have a licence to do so, Labour has said.Ministers should introduce much stricter rules around companies training their AI products on vast datasets of […]
Kiran Stacey Political correspondentSinger said recent months had been overwhelming and he needs to spend time with friends and family to recoverThe Brit award-winning singer Lewis Capaldi apologised to fans after cancelling all of his upcoming commitments to “rest and recover” ahead of Glastonbury.Capaldi, 26, said in an Instagram post on Monday that he is “struggling” after a […]
Tom Ambrose and agencyLabour leader to address union’s conference after its leader attacks plan to ban new North Sea oil and gas extractionKeir Starmer will pledge to put “good, union jobs” at the heart of Labour’s energy policy during a speech to one of its biggest donor unions after its general secretary criticised a proposed ban on oil […]
Ben Quinn and Alex LawsonWhile wolverines are native to California, they’ve been essentially extinct from the state since the 1920s A wolverine was spotted three times last month in the eastern Sierra Nevada, a rare occurrence for an animal that’s only been seen one other time in California over the last 100 years, state wildlife officials said.While wolverines are […]
Guardian staff and agenciesRishi Sunak confirms two more barges will house 1,000 people, as sources say discussions about other areas are taking placeThousands of asylum seekers could be housed in vessels moored near Newcastle, Harwich, Felixstowe and the Royal London docks, the Guardian has learned.Rishi Sunak confirmed on Monday that the government had acquired two more giant barges […]
Pippa Crerar, Aletha Adu and Rajeev SyalThe PRI – once the overwhelmingly dominant party of Mexico in the 20th century – is now a weak and also-ran political forceMexico’s oldest party has lost control of the country’s most populous and influential state, in an election result that could signal the end of a powerful network that has dominated politics in the […]
Nina Lakhani in New York and María Teresa Montaño Delgado in Mexico CityMPs told UK government’s attempt to avoid handing over evidence to inquiry had been ‘misinterpreted’UK politics live – latest updatesThe high court will decide “very soon” whether ministers should be forced to hand over all unredacted files demanded by the Covid inquiry, MPs have been told.In an attempt to allay concerns of a cover-up, the […]
Aubrey Allegretti Political correspondent