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Australia · ABC

Flavio Bolsonaro says in livestream he left Brazil due to 'persecution'

31 Oct 14:41

In an Instagram livestream, the defeated Brazilian conservative presidential candidate says he and his wife fled to the United States "without anyone knowing".

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Australia · Sydney Morning Herald

Megan is a Perth public housing tenant. Her neighbours are making her life hell

Megan’s Cloverdale street was quiet, tight-knit and friendly until her next door neighbours moved in about four years ago. Since then, she says the neighbourhood has been plagued with drugs, screaming and violence.

2 Nov 02:00

Australia · ABC

France opens 'attempted murder' probe after riot police attacked with petrol bomb

A French officer described "skin that stings" after being set alight by a molotov cocktail during another weekend of protests in Paris.

2 Nov 01:17

Australia · Guardian Australia

I spent the first day of the south-west metro’s life exploring the delights of the line. Now I want to move closer

My relationship with Sydney’s delayed metro extension is complicated. But on Friday, as I caught a regular bus home, I daydreamed of moving – one more time I’ve already been awake for six hours when I jump off the metro back at Bankstown station at 8.33am on Friday. It’s the first day of driverless trains running on the extension from Bankstown to Sydenham and I was on the first service heading into the city at 4.31a

2 Nov 01:00

Australia · Guardian Australia

Home values fall for seventh consecutive month as interest rates dent demand

Centre of downturn shifts away from Sydney and Melbourne, but after such strong growth most homeowners still sit on sizeable gains

2 Nov 01:00

Australia · Guardian Australia

The coming legal battle against Albanese’s social media ban – podcast

The first major legal challenge against Australia’s under-16s social media ban is set to heard in the high court on Tuesday – 11 months on from the policy taking effect. As similar bans are adopted across the world, the challenges – from online giant Reddit and the Digital Freedom Project - will argue that the ban prevents young people from political communication. Technology reporter Josh Taylor speaks to host Reged

2 Nov 01:00

Australia · Guardian Australia

Former NSW Liberal leads overhaul of One Nation candidate selection process

Exclusive: Mark Jones, once on track for one of the Liberal party’s most powerful roles, is now instrumental in One Nation’s expansion Get our daily political email

2 Nov 01:00

Australia · Guardian Australia

Odette on a later-in-life autism diagnosis: ‘It completely revolutionised the way that I exist’

Last year, she got sober and an official diagnosis. It’s not the first time a new understanding about herself has reframed the Sydney artist’s music – and life In 2021, just before the release of her second album, Sydney singer-songwriter Odette – full name Georgia Odette Sallybanks – was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. As she said at the time , this threw new light on the songs she had written in the

2 Nov 01:00

Australia · Guardian Australia

AI is stealing Indigenous Australian art and churning out ‘Temu slop’, artist says

Chair of National Gallery’s First Nations advisory group says the technology is undermining artists’ agency and the authenticity of their work

2 Nov 01:00