BIZARRE: 26 - What They Never Told You

Lincoln is out of prison but a ‘lifetime’ penalty hangs over him. Does a NSW police anti-firearm scheme go too far?

New data examining enhanced police search powers brings into question the efficacy and fairness of weapon and firearm prohibition orders

The Guardian - AU · Aug 9, 2025

Five Great Reads: the killing code, our AI future and a Sydney Sweeney culture war

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

The Guardian - AU · Aug 8, 2025

Labor decision to lift ban on PwC ‘an insult’ to inquiry that investigated Treasury scandal, Pocock says

Finance department rejects last minute plea from three senators urging it to maintain block on consultancy firm competing for new government work

The Guardian - AU · Aug 7, 2025

Traditional owners call for diaries of WA settler who killed Aboriginal people to be released in full

Major Logue’s diaries use code to describe the frontier killings of Yamatji people but a local publisher plans to omit the coded sections from publication

The Guardian - AU · Aug 4, 2025

These brothers grew up revering their great-uncle Bill. Then the full story came out

Constable Bill McKinnon shot an Aboriginal man at Uluru. Facing up to crimes like this is part of the work Indigenous Australians have been calling on colonial descendants to do for decades – to ‘be brave’ and seek out the truth. It’s why Guardian Australia has launched this project

The Guardian - AU · Aug 3, 2025

Sea of people march across Sydney Harbour Bridge calling for an end to killing in Gaza

NSW police estimate 90,000 walked despite force and premier opposing rally, while Palestine Action Group claims up to 300,000 peacefully protested

The Guardian - AU · Aug 3, 2025

Online shoppers warned of ‘dangerous’ weight-loss scam as ‘ghost stores’ impersonate real people to sell Ozempic-like treatments

Dietitian Lyndi Cohen says her likeness is being ‘abused and misrepresented’ as websites posing as Australian businesses claim to offer GLP-1 substances

The Guardian - AU · Aug 2, 2025

Afternoon Update: Australia spared Trump’s latest tariff hike; NSW’s wet weekend; and the library that loans tents and fog machines

Australian goods imported into the US will continue to attract the baseline 10% tariff, with Australia dodging any tariff increase in the latest round of Donald Trump’s global trade war

The Guardian - AU · Aug 1, 2025

Guardian Australia’s Carly Earl wins top award in 2025 Australian Life photography competition

Earl’s portrait of young drovers in central Queensland praised by judges for ‘beautiful insight into reality of life in rural Australia’

The Guardian - AU · Jul 31, 2025

As Australia’s teen social media ban looms, here’s how the platforms are lobbying for an exemption

Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat are running ads and events saying their services are safe for children – with the possibility of a legal challenge

The Guardian - AU · Jul 29, 2025