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PM says opposition ‘reduced to a farce’ as government targeted over CGT – as it happened

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Sound baths are supposed to help relax and ‘soothe’ your nervous system. But do any of these claims ring true?

Social media is awash with clips of people paying to be ‘bathed’ in sound. But what’s the science behind the practice?

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Tomorrow, When the War Began: a film made in a lab for 2010s Australian teens

It has heart-throbs and a classic soundtrack, but the true resonance of this John Marsden adaptation is its portrayal of growing up in a world rapidly destroyed before your eyes

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The complete 2026 Australian budget: choose the news coverage that matters to you

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What is hantavirus, and why will cruise passengers spend so long in quarantine?

While experts believe the virus is unlikely to become a ‘full-blown pandemic’, its mortality rate and long incubation period makes Covid-style isolation prudent

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Budget earmarks more than $600m for Bondi attack response, with half going to Australia’s Jewish community

Funds flow to charities and other organisations, with Executive Council of Australian Jewry getting $124m for extra security

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‘Holiday dressing in black’: why Australian gothic is back in fashion

Corsetry, frills and floor-length gowns are firm favourites for a new wave of female designers showing at Australian fashion week

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Aukus costs balloon with more cash and staff for submarine agency amid ongoing search for nuclear waste dump

Labor has announced funding for Australian Submarine Agency will jump to $512m in next financial year amid concerns the sovereign submarine fleet may never arrive

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What the budget means for your generation – gen Z, millennial, gen X or boomer

Jim Chalmers has sold the budget as a historic shift in favour of intergenerational fairness. Four Guardian Australia staff members assess what it means for their age group

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The budget in seven graphs: no big surprises but this may be one of the most ambitious moves to fix Australia’s finances

With some long-awaited sanity on housing and taxes, including CGT and negative gearing changes, it’s one of the most important for good – but will still leave some out in the cold

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Federal budget 2026 winners and losers: rich families, overseas travellers and illegal tobacco – summary

Taxpayers and first home buyers are the winners in Labor’s 2026 budget, while rich families could be among the losers. Find out who is better off and who is worse off in Chalmers’ budget

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Budget capital gains tax changes and negative gearing reform explained

Negative gearing, capital gains tax and family trusts are all facing a big shake-up in the name of intergenerational fairness. How will it all work?

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Huge cuts to national disability insurance scheme aim to save more than $36bn in budget’s largest single measure

NDIS changes foreshadowed by health minister Mark Butler will drastically reduce access to the scheme, with nearly 700 staff positions to go at NDIA

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Budget 2026 Australia: Jim Chalmers goes for broke in federal budget facing twin threats of housing pain and Iran war disaster

Labor’s ambitious and politically risky tax reform aims to help first home buyers and foster intergenerational fairness

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This bold budget has grasped the nettle of tax and housing – but it may not be enough to move the needle for younger Australians

Jim Chalmers, determined not to miss his reform moment more than four years into government, has backed the largest change to Australia’s sclerotic tax system since the Howard era

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‘I still want to scream’: the loneliness and confusion of living with PMOS

As polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, is renamed polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome in an attempt to improve treatment and remove stigma, readers speak about the condition and their struggles to get help

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‘Unprecedented’ global effort gives new name to polycystic ovary syndrome – and new hope to millions of women

Decades-long campaign powered by patient perspectives results in switch from PCOS – a name that caused confusion and undue suffering – to PMOS

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What is PCOS, what are the symptoms and treatment, and why is it being renamed PMOS?

Polycystic ovary syndrome is being relabelled polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome to correct the misconception that it is solely a gynaecological disease that creates ovarian cysts. Here’s what you need to know about the condition

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Inquiry calls Minns government grants scheme for Labor candidates an ‘election slush fund’

Parliamentary committee into 2023 electorate funding allocation program finds MP John Graham misled parliament

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Fortescue ordered to pay Yindjibarndi traditional owners $150m in record native title payout

Federal court found miner’s Solomon Hub iron ore mine caused cultural and social harm, including the destruction of 140 heritage sites

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Afternoon Update: One Nation casts shadow over budget; soldier dies in training incident; and coexisting with dingoes

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says ‘… the tax system is not working for a lot of Australians’ before handing down his fifth budget

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Alleged triple murderer Julian Ingram killed himself ‘some time ago’. Questions remain over how police handled DV claims

Ingram’s body was found 50km from where Sophie Quinn, her boyfriend and her aunt were killed in Lake Cargelligo in January

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Mother of Kumanjayi Little Baby asks politicians not to leverage child’s death: ‘My heart is broken into a million pieces’

Labor introduced condolence motions in parliament on Tuesday to honour the five-year-old who was allegedly murdered in Alice Springs last month

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It’s parliament, not Love Island: Queensland’s ministerial affair drama becomes a sordid distraction

Tuesday’s question time seemed more suited to prime time; full of sordid allegations, only the cast seems far less likable

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Iran war oil shortage forces Japan snack giant to use black-and-white packaging

Calbee to switch its brightly coloured packaging to black and white because war has disrupted supply of certain raw materials used in ink

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