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From cigarette-smoking orangutans to lavender for lions: Melbourne zoo’s dark history gives way to progressive animal care

Tackling the tension between promoting conservation, keeping animals in captivity and its heavy history, the zoo has been reshaped around environmental awareness

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‘A big call for the IOC’: is the fight over Olympic rowing on Australia’s predator-inhabited Fitzroy River all a croc?

Queensland’s deputy premier says the event ‘ain’t happening’ at the Brisbane Games unless it takes place in Rockhampton

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Andy Griffiths: ‘Life is a joyously unhinged, absurd wonderland of possibility’

Named as Australia’s children’s laureate for 2026-27, the beloved author opens up about the best thing a fan has ever sent him – and his first tattoo

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Australia’s Jakara Anthony clinches first ever dual moguls Olympics gold

Jakara Anthony has won her second career gold medal and Australia’s third of the Milan Cortina Games, clinching the first dual moguls Olympics title

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Angus Taylor faces leadership test in Farrer byelection as independent vows to ‘finish what we started’ and oust Liberals

With backers including Climate 200, Michelle Milthorpe is confident she can win Sussan Ley’s south-western NSW seat

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Isaac Herzog’s four days in Australia left him ‘energised’. For the Jewish community, some saw solidarity while others felt ‘serious angst’

The Israeli president’s visit to console victims of the Bondi beach terror attack was not without controversy

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Ukraine war briefing: conflict could end if Russia economically or militarily ‘exhausted’, says Germany’s Merz

Ukraine-Russia war high on the agenda at Munich Security Council; France’s Macron says world must not accept Ukraine defeated. What we know on day 1,452

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Maximising time in the sun: how to maintain and repair solar panels to make them last

All solar panels degrade over time, but expert installation and regular maintenance can prevent an early sunset on their lifespan

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Five Great Reads: new ways to look at female nudes, understanding the Maya and revisiting Infinite Jest

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

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John Polson and David Michôd on Tropfest’s return: the film festival that ‘can change your career overnight’

Before losing its way, the world’s largest short film festival had an A-list guestlist and kickstarted the careers of Justin Kurzel and Nash and Joel Edgerton. What will it look like in 2026?

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An ‘impossible’ situation or ‘unhinged’ police? Inside the chaos at Sydney’s anti-Herzog protest

Police have defended their actions after Monday’s protest. Here’s how the night played out

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Sydney protesters want to sue police over alleged brutality at the anti-Herzog rally, but it will be a struggle

An obscure section of a 2009 piece of legislation states ‘compensation is not payable’ when NSW officers are granted additional powers for ‘major events’

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Deborah Cheetham Fraillon: ‘Composer by necessity, soprano by diligence and lesbian by practice’

The Yorta Yorta opera trailblazer on the power of song, what she learned from her Baptist upbringing and, as part of the Stolen Generations, how music led her home

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Riding the rails: does Melbourne’s long-awaited Metro Tunnel deliver?

Guardian Australia jumps on board Victoria’s new line to see if it fulfils the state government’s big promises

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DJ more, channel Zohran and get a sleep doctor: Adam Bandt on life after politics and saving the planet

The former Greens leader’s appointment as CEO of the Australian Conservation Foundation raised eyebrows – but for him, the mission remains the same

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Once demoted, now deputy leader: what will Jane Hume do for the Liberal party?

The Victorian senator’s elevation may help mitigate the effects of the party dumping its first female leader after only nine months. It also suggests the moderates still hold influence

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Macron swipes at Trump tariffs and Greenland threats; Zelenskyy has strong words for Russia – as it happened

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A ‘desiccated coconut’ and a ‘grub’: Angus Taylor has copped some insults – but he’s in good company

Australia’s political leaders have used plenty of colourful language to describe their opponents. Here are a few gems from the archives

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New opposition leader Taylor wants to stop ‘bad immigration’ but says Liberals aren’t ‘One Nation lite’

Liberal leader says his party must ‘change or die’ but is yet to make clear how he differs from his predecessor

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Afternoon Update: Ley to quit politics after Taylor triumphs; alleged NSW police brutality investigated; and the French ice dancer scandal

Former Liberal leader will leave public life ‘completely’, forcing a byelection in the NSW seat of Farrer

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Qld coalmine expansion approved by Albanese government will clear habitat and fuel climate crisis, scientists say

Conservationists estimate coal exported from expanded mine to release CO2 equivalent of about half Australia’s annual carbon footprint

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Zimbabwe stun Australia with 23-run victory at T20 World Cup – as it happened

Australia’s hopes of reaching the Super Eights are left hanging by a thread after Muzarabani takes four wickets to seal upset win

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Bikinis banned on Sydney bus over ‘cleanliness’ concerns

A sign for the northern beaches Hop, Skip and Jump bus says ‘clothing must be worn over swimwear’

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‘The tears just keep flowing’: child victims of Tumbler Ridge shooting remembered as Carney heads to join vigil

Prime minister to meet mourners in mining town as families speak of their loss in one of Canada’s deadliest mass shootings

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Sussan Ley is today’s scapegoat - but she was never the Liberals’ core problem

Policies are an expression and extension of a candidate or party’s values. Does the ‘big tent’ party still have any?

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