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Shoppers tipped to splash cash in Boxing Day spree

Budget-conscious buying is expected drive big Boxing Day sales as savvy shoppers splurge for the year ahead, helping retailers clear shelves and boost cashflow.

AAP · Dec 23, 2025

My petty gripe: why do we have to review everything now?

I don’t really believe that companies would love my feedback, nor that my opinion matters to them. So why do they keep asking for them?

The Guardian - AU · Dec 10, 2025

Guardian Australia wins Walkley award for Indigenous affairs for The Descendants series

Christopher Hopkins also named the Nikon-Walkley press photographer of the year for work published in Al Jazeera, the Age and the Guardian

The Guardian - AU · Nov 27, 2025

Five young people dead: inquest lays bare the struggles of transgender Victorians seeking mental health support

A coronial inquiry into deaths of five transgender women hears calls for system-wide reform

The Guardian - AU · Dec 1, 2023

‘We found each other digging in the dirt’: singles flirt over worms at weed dating

At a community garden in Melbourne, combining a working bee with speed dating has yielded the city’s most wholesome matchmaking event

The Guardian - AU · Nov 3, 2023

Didn’t I already know her story? What I learned when I interviewed my dying mother

As my mother’s condition worsened, I asked about her life as a distraction from her illness. I discovered truth – and beauty – in these moments

The Guardian - AU · Oct 31, 2023

Pink, plastic and terrifyingly popular: Barbie is Australia’s preferred Halloween costume this year

The doll has topped Google Trends most searched costumes for October in NSW, Victoria and NT - but other parts of the country have different ideas

The Guardian - AU · Oct 27, 2023

Tony Birch: ‘I got into a lot of fights. I was a very good street boxer’

Life could have turned out very differently for Birch, who was twice expelled from school as a boy. The celebrated author reflects on masculinity, AFL and surviving domestic violence

The Guardian - AU · Oct 20, 2023

The Eighty-Six festival: why the Melbourne tram line that inspired Courtney Barnett is throwing a party

Local and international acts including Built to Spill, Bright Eyes and Warpaint will cram venues along the 86 route for a new festival that showcases the city’s long musical lineage

The Guardian - AU · Oct 17, 2023

‘Get on the front foot’: rapper Briggs urges yes supporters to ‘defuse the nonsense’ ahead of voice referendum

Yorta Yorta man also argues progressive no voters should realise ‘you’re saying no to 80% of blackfellas who want this’ Indigenous voice

The Guardian - AU · Oct 3, 2023