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Australia · ABC

Two Australians unaccounted-for after Spain rail disaster

30 Oct 19:04

Two Australians are unaccounted-for after Spain's deadly rail disaster, with authorities working to confirm their wellbeing.

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Australia · Guardian Australia

Back to Back Barries: Is inflation driving Chalmers and Albanese apart? – podcast

Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry discuss how the diving economy will impact Anthony Albanese’s – and Jim Chalmers’ – approval ratings. If the relationship between the prime minister and treasurer is so crucial for the nation, what happens when that relationship breaks down? They also examine the many elections playing out globally. Has Donald Trump’s association with rightwing parties around the world hurt his own cause

31 Oct 01:00

Australia · Guardian Australia

Who is Jess Wilson? The millennial Liberal leader on the cusp of history in Victorian election

She grew up wanting to be a police officer (she had a ‘badge and everything’, her sister says). But politics runs deep in the Wilson family

31 Oct 01:00

Australia · Guardian Australia

Parramatta’s Powerhouse is finally here. Will the $915m project live up to the hype?

The western Sydney arts precinct’s long-awaited opening risks being overshadowed by an investigation into governance and procurement The decade-long project to build a world-class museum and cultural precinct, called the “opera house” of western Sydney, will open its doors next week. But as the scaffolds came down from the white-latticed walls of the new Powerhouse and galleries began to fill with artistic commission

31 Oct 01:00

Australia · Guardian Australia

Experts warn AI copyright changes could breach Australian constitution and spark huge compensation rights case

Scraping copyrighted material from internet could ‘potentially’ amount to acquisition of property by government, Anne Twomey says Get our daily political email

31 Oct 01:00

Australia · Guardian Australia

Witches, clowns and a killer durian! Halloween in the Blue Mountains – in pictures

Each Halloween, photographer Maja Baska roams the streets of North Katoomba with her analogue camera to document the local festivities, capturing everything from the delightfully banal to the genuinely terrifying Continue reading...

31 Oct 01:00

Australia · Guardian Australia

Sampa the Great: Nu Zamrock review – a full-circle moment for a world-class act

Sampa Tembo’s genre-hopping third album meets the moment with charisma and cheek In 2019, as Sampa the Great, Sampa Tembo became the first woman to win an Australian Recording Industry Association award for hip-hop or rap; she’s also the first (and only) person to win the Australian music prize twice. But she’s said consistently over the past decade that, while her music career began in Australia – when she was based

31 Oct 01:00

Australia · Guardian Australia

Labor is losing control of the economic narrative as cash-strapped households look for someone to blame | Tom McIlroy

Jim Chalmers eyes government spending cuts but faces internal party pressure to outlay more as Melbourne Cup day interest rate decision looms If there was a data point that summed up the rough politics facing Labor on the economy this week, it came from KPMG’s chief economist, Brendan Rynne. After headline inflation rose to 4.3% on Wednesday, Rynne noted the compounding effect on households and businesses around the

31 Oct 01:00

Australia · Sydney Morning Herald

Test your general knowledge with the Good Weekend quiz

Trivia buffs: can you get a perfect score in the interactive superquiz?

30 Oct 23:59