Good afternoon and happy Everything Everywhere All at Once day. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s manic multiverse fantasy has dominated this year’s Oscars, winning best picture and six other awards, including for Michelle Yeoh, who became the first south-east Asian performer to win the best actress award.
The most nominated film of the night also won best director, best supporting actor, best supporting actress, best editing and best original screenplay at the 95th Academy Awards ceremony.
With Ke Huy Quan’s win for best supporting actor it was the first time multiple Asian actors won Oscars in the same year. In her acceptance speech, Yeoh called her win “a beacon of hope and possibility” for “all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight”.
The ceremony began with host Jimmy Kimmel roasting Will Smith and ended with a screen showing the words: “Number of Oscars telecasts without incident: 001.”
Here is the full list of winners, and you can look back at our blog to relive the action, including gems such as the Guardian’s Stuart Heritage declaring the night’s most viral moment – that time Hugh Grant compared his face to a scrotum.
Top news
Ralph Babet | The United Australia party senator has defended continuing to work for his family real estate business by claiming he is not paid. Babet said his job in the Senate still “takes priority” but that he was likely to return to real estate after one term in parliament because he did not see himself as a “career politician”.
NSW politics | Premier Dominic Perrottet has denied removing senior minister Victor Dominello from the state’s gambling portfolio due to pressure from the powerful clubs lobby, saying he was “never under pressure” over the decision.
Concern over lead testing | Community-led rainwater testing near the NSW town of Orange has found that one in three tanks have unsafe lead levels, which residents are concerned is linked to the Cadia goldmine. NSW Health is now retesting water samples to determine if there is a broader public health risk.
Australian Ethical divests over koala concerns | One of Australia’s leading ethical investment managers says it has sold its shares in Lendlease over concerns a planned housing development in south-west Sydney threatens the survival of Sydney’s largest healthy koala population.
Aukus | The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has declared “a new dawn for Australia’s defence policy” as he prepares to announce the Aukus nuclear-powered submarine plan tomorrow alongside Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak. Guardian Australia’s defence correspondent, Daniel Hurst, takes a look at the remaining unanswered questions. Plus, Prof John Blaxland on why Aukus will bolster stability in the Asia-Pacific, not undermine it.
China | Xi Jinping has vowed to oppose Taiwan independence in his closing speech at the National People’s Congress, after a week in which the country’s rubber-stamp parliament handed China’s president an unprecedented third presidential term. He also called for greater economic self-reliance and the peaceful development of cross-strait relations with Taiwan.
North Korea | The nuclear-armed country test-fired two strategic cruise missiles from a submarine on Sunday, its state news agency KCNA reported, just as the US and South Korea were due to kick off their largest joint military exercise in five years.
US banking | US financial regulators rolled out emergency measures on Sunday night to stem potential contagion from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, including guaranteeing all deposits with the failed bank. Its collapse has shaken a tech sector already facing difficulties including unprecedented layoffs.
Extreme weather | Another “atmospheric river” storm was expected to hit California on Monday, after thousands of residents were left without power following a weekend of heavy rainfall, powerful floods and deadly destruction. At least two people were killed by the recent storms while 9,400 were placed under evacuation orders.
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The teals, farmers and traditional owners fighting Santos
The rich farmlands of NSW’s Liverpool Plains have long been coveted by fossil fuel companies – BHP and Chinese state-owned Shenhua have both tried and walked away. Now locals are preparing to fight Australian gas giant Santos, which holds the licences for what lies beneath.
Rural and regional editor Gabrielle Chan tells Jane Lee about the new generation of farmers taking on Santos, alongside traditional owners and teal independent MPs.
What they said …
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“Mom, I just won an Oscar!” – Ke Huy Quan
In his acceptance speech for winning the Oscar for best supporting actor in Everything Everywhere All At Once, a tearful Quan paid tribute to his mother and to his wife, Echo.
In numbers
Is this the new normal? The latest data shows public transport use in Sydney and Melbourne is still at 80% of pre-Covid levels, with people working an average of two days a week from home, fewer cars on the road and less-crowded trains.
Before bed read
Danmei is the most popular genre of fiction in China. It is romantic fiction about men or male beings – ghosts, foxes, even a mushroom – falling in love, written almost exclusively by and for straight women, and its popularity hasn’t gone unnoticed by the Communist party.
Daily word game
Today’s starter word is: DUN. You have five goes to get the longest word including the starter word. Play Wordiply.
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