Skinny Guardian — AU edition. The latest 50 Guardian articles updated every hour. Last updated 21 Nov 2024 at 04:21 UTC.

Melbourne teen Bianca Jones dies in hospital after suspected methanol poisoning in Laos

A social media ban for everyone is in the national interest – not just kids under 16 | Van Badham

Linton Besser, award-winning investigative journalist, named new Media Watch host

More than 300 Australian university executives make more money than state premiers, report reveals

Australia’s east coast on heatwave weather alert with temperatures up to 12C above average

Victoria’s First Peoples’ Assembly wants powers over schools’ Indigenous history curriculum

ABC radio shakeup: Fran Kelly to host new show as Sarah Macdonald dumped from Sydney morning program

Allegations of police brutality as number of protesters arrested after Land Forces expo swells to 110

Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana artwork fetches US$5.2m at New York auction

The Simpsons: Milhouse voice actor Pamela Hayden retires from show after 35 years

Australia hoped hosting a Cop climate summit was a done deal. But one nation still stands in the way

Coachella 2025 lineup: Lady Gaga, Green Day, Post Malone and Travis Scott to headline in April

First arrest as New Zealand ban on displaying gang patches comes into force

Australia took its interest rate medicine – and it has poisoned our living standards | Greg Jericho

What is methanol, how does it get into alcoholic drinks and why is it so dangerous?

Morning Mail: Christian ‘police state’ warning, university pay shock, why Melbourne shunned Kyle and Jackie O

Sky News Australia documentary The Real Cost of Net Zero fails to live up to its hubris, with viewers paying the price | Temperature Check

Rejigged India can draw strength from 2021 – but still face uphill struggle | Geoff Lemon

Labor’s ‘thought crime’ hate speech laws will turn nation into ‘police state’, Australian Christian Lobby says

Australians in outer suburbs have far less access to schools, healthcare and public transport, report finds

There’s a buzz online about local honey being the ‘ultimate hay fever hack’ – but does it actually help? | Antiviral

Socceroos continue to ride their luck as margin for error becomes razor thin | Joey Lynch

Australia’s Future Fund to invest in housing, infrastructure and energy transition under new mandate

‘Quite dodgy’: what kind of outfit does $80 buy at Temu and Shein?

2024 Aria awards: Troye Sivan wins album of the year as Royel Otis take home four gongs

Sydney train strike: here’s what you need to know about this weekend’s shutdown

Labor bill could lead to lengthy detention of migrants before deportation to countries paid to take them, committee warns

Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai defiant as he gives evidence in foreign collusion trial

Victoria to build $370m state-owned solar farm and battery in state’s west

Australian women to get home self tests for chlamydia and gonorrhoea – but experts urge caution

Mother of Rust cinematographer fatally shot by Alec Baldwin refuses to attend film’s world premiere

Afternoon Update: Trump picks Dr Oz to run Medicare; bullying reports increase at Rio Tinto; and the new word for cost-of-living rage

Heatwave forecast for south-eastern Australia triggers energy supply and fire danger warnings

Australian National University’s word of the year is a portmanteau for cost-of-living rage

Myanmar overtakes Syria as country with highest landmine casualties

Pacific island governor backs $800m US military upgrade amid China threat

Ukraine war briefing: North Korean soldiers ‘fighting in Russian elite units’

Vic Flick, guitarist on the James Bond theme, dies aged 87

Trump tariffs are coming, but some Chinese companies may already know how to avoid them

Sneaky, excessive and unjustified: why Labor’s electoral reforms are vulnerable to constitutional challenge | Anne Twomey

Kusini Yengi salvages draw for woeful Socceroos in World Cup qualifier in Bahrain

Morning Mail: Kyle and Jackie O’s underage listeners, pay gap persists, Socceroos play Bahrain

Vulgar content in the Sesame Street time slot: how the Kyle and Jackie O show skirts decency laws

Paris agreement is working, Australian minister tells Cop29, but much deeper cuts needed by 2035

Not just Cbus: 10 largest super funds had thousands of complaints over death and disability claims

Australian supermarket kombucha taste test: ‘How can a beverage be so wet and so dry at the same time?’

Why does Dutton say Labor’s international student cap is ‘a dog’s breakfast’ – and what do universities think?

Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Francis Ford Coppola’s very horny vampire epic

As my eldest sits his final school exam, I’m grateful to the fine teachers who helped me parent him | Ranjana Srivastava

Ripple Effect Band: the all-female rock group singing in a language spoken by about 50 people