With their glorious blue plumage, these common urban birds have been a comfort while we’ve been at home during the pandemicAustralian bird of the year: how they finishedDownload the poster as PDF here or JPEG hereSee all our bird of the year coverage h…
Indigenous man dies during ‘violent struggle’ with Queensland police
Two men are on the run after fleeing the scene in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, while two police officers have minor injuriesGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingAn Indigenous Queensland man has died during a “violent struggle” with poli…
Indigenous woman shot dead in WA had ‘lunged’ at police, witness tells murder trial
Evidence from man who called triple zero contradicts prosecution case that JC ‘did not take one step in any direction’ before she was shot in 2019Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingAn Indigenous woman shot dead by a police officer in …
Aukus pact to deepen Australia, US collaboration on space technology
Nasa’s Artemis mission to send a crewed vehicle to the moon set to further partnership between the two countriesGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe Aukus agreement will boost collaboration between the United States and Australia in…
Pandora Papers: tax avoidance revelations prompt outraged denials
International reaction to offshore data leak ranges from pledges to clamp down to anger and cries of old newsSee all of our Pandora papers coverageThe Pandora Papers’ revelations prompted an avalanche of international reaction on Monday, ranging from s…
‘The strangeness seeped into the music’: how Iceland’s midnight sun inspired Jezabels’ Heather Shannon
The Australian musician talks about creating her aching, jagged new album of solo piano compositions in the wake of chemotherapyAt the beginning of 2016 Heather Shannon of the Jezabels felt as though “someone had pumped cement into [my] veins”. Her ova…
‘It will be found’: search for MH370 continues with experts and amateurs still sleuthing
It is the ‘mystery that must be solved’ – seven-and-a-half years after the Malaysia Airlines flight disappeared with 239 people on boardSomewhere in the vast expanse of Earth’s oceans lies MH370, the Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared on 8 March…
In reckoning with its demons, Hillsong will be forced to move away from what made it powerful | Elle Hardy
Reining in its pastors and dealing with the scandals enveloping the megachurch risks creating a brand that’s bland and bureaucraticHillsong Church is in crisis. Australia’s greatest cultural export – with 131 churches in 30 countries, 150,000 weekly co…
Queensland police refuse to remove traditional owners occupying Adani’s coalmine site
Miner says group is ‘trespassing’ but police have acknowledged their cultural rights under human rights actQueensland police have told a group of First Nations people occupying the site of Adani’s Carmichael coalmine for the past five weeks that they h…
Australia told French submarine firm it didn’t have green light to proceed hours before deal cancelled
Letter, sent to Naval Group on 15 September, is at the heart of diplomatic rift between France and AustraliaGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingAustralia cautioned the French contractor – hours before the $90bn submarine deal was cance…