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  1. Joseph Earp
    Born to run: how exercise got my mind on track

    A runner

  2. ‘The 0.001%’
    A visual breakdown of the world’s wealthiest people

    Crowd of people gathered around 3 stacks of gold coins looking up at one person standing on top of them

  3. Books
    Readers nominate Australia’s top 50 children’s picture books

    Illustration of an open book cover with a boy, a bear and a girl

  4. Grogonomics
    RBA’s dramatic change of tone left markets swinging

    Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock said ‘I don’t think there are interest rate cuts on the horizon for the foreseeable future’.

News

  • Walter Sofronoff speaks to media during a press conference in Brisbane, Tuesday, December 13, 2022. (AAP Image/Jono Searle) NO ARCHIVING

    Courts
    Lehrmann inquiry head Walter Sofronoff loses bid to overturn ‘serious corrupt conduct’ finding

  • Greg Lynn (centre) arrives at the Victorian Court of Appeal in Melbourne, Thursday, December 11, 2025. Greg Lynn, the former Jetstar pilot had his murder conviction set aside and will face fresh trial over the death of missing camper Carol Clay. (AAP Image/Pool, Eddie Jim) NO ARCHIVING, POOL

    Victoria
    Court overturns Greg Lynn's conviction for high country murder after 'substantial miscarriage of justice'

  • Cape Tribulation
    Tourist zip line failure left man dead and woman injured after falling up to 25 metres, inquest hears

  • State politics
    Workers’ compensation changes to slash number of psychological injury claims across NSW

  • The McDonald’s logo with icicles over it outside an outlet

    Netherlands
    ‘Ruined my Christmas spirit’: McDonald’s removes AI-generated ad after backlash

  • A screengrab from a Kia car advertisement which has come under criticism

    Advertising
    ‘Portrays the people of Melbourne as ZOMBIES’: Australia’s most complained about ads for 2025 revealed

Special report

  • Australia's best children's picture book
    Discover Australia’s top 50 children’s picture books as nominated by Guardian readers

    The readers have spoken and this list of books will comprise the best Australian children’s picture books poll in a few weeks

In focus

  • Pictured: a Geminid meteor shower. Discover how to get the best view of Australia’s meteor shower this weekend.

    Explainer
    Geminid meteor shower: where to watch Australia’s biggest shooting star show this weekend

  • a silver spacecraft in front of a red planet

    Space
    Nasa loses contact with spacecraft orbiting Mars for more than a decade

Features

  • A runner

    Born to run: how exercise expanded the landscape of my life and got my mind on track

    Joseph Earp
  • Rukmini Iyer's gildas in carriages.

    Summer essentials
    Nine bring-a-plate ideas for Christmas drinks, barbecues and dinner parties this summer – recipes

More features

  • ‘Wasteful’ … Calibri.

    Typography
    Calibri: is this really the world’s wokest font?

  • Cherie Clonan at her neurodivergent friendly home in Yarraville, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Taken on Friday 5th December, 2025.

    Homes
    How neurodivergent households design ‘a home that knows your brain’

  • Alan Fletcher as Karl Kennedy, Mischa Barton as Reece Sinclair and Jackie Woodburne as Susan Kennedy in Amazon’s reboot of Neighbours

    Television
    Neighbours is ending – again. Why was Amazon’s gamble on the soap so short-lived?

  • 5 gold stars in a row, slightly broken.

    My petty gripe: why do we have to review everything now?

    Ellen Smith

Best reads of 2025

  1. A red moon rises through a haze behind the Statue of Liberty in New York City. The author is renouncing their US citizenship

    America, there is still so much to love about you but we have to break up. This is why I’m renouncing US citizenship

    Anonymous
  2. Man holding racket moves to hit ball

    Sport
    Handmade balls and no two courts the same: Tudor-era ‘real tennis’ is making a racket in Sydney

  3. Boiled eggs? Tofu? Avocado? Are these the high protein, low sugar recipes the new way to make mousse? TikTok certainly seems to think so

    Food
    ‘Yuck!’ Guardian Australia staff taste test viral ‘healthy’ TikTok mousse recipes

    Video3:05
  4. Stephanie Gilmore

    Interview
    Steph Gilmore: ‘I was looking for something more, in myself and in my surfing’

Opinion

  • Greg Jericho

    Grogonomics
    No wonder Michele Bullock’s dramatic departure from the RBA’s interest rate script left markets swinging wildly

    Greg Jericho
    Less than two months ago the market was predicting the cash rate would be at 3.35% but that by May next year a further cut to 3.1% was almost certain

More opinion

  1. John Crace

    The UK politics sketch
    Keir’s performance in PMQs panto sets bar low enough for Kemi to stay as Tory leader

    John Crace
  2. Arwa Mahdawi

    Sean Duffy wants ‘civility’ in US air travel … so why is he doing pull-ups at the airport?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  3. Kenneth Roth

    All of the deadly US strikes on alleged drug boats are murders

    Kenneth Roth

  4. The lesson of the Cronulla riots was that the beach was not for people like me. But it’s a myth I am increasingly resisting

    Sarah Malik

Cartoon

  • TeenBanpixiek

    Australia’s kids are saved! The social media ban is here and all the teens are outside touching grass

    First Dog on the Moon
    (Vaping, shoplifting Labubus and getting bullied in person)

Sport

More sport

  1. The construction site of the Santagiulia Arena in Milan

    Winter Olympics 2026
    NHL warns top players will not show up if Milan-Cortina venue is unsafe

  2. A rainbow flag

    Football
    LGBTQ+ events to go ahead at World Cup game despite Egypt and Iran objections

  3. Luke Littler lifts the trophy after winning the Grand Slam of Darts final against Luke Humphries in November.

    Darts
    A sporting superhero: can anyone stop Luke Littler at the world championship?

  4. South Africa's Eben Etzebeth

    Rugby union
    Etzebeth accepts 12-week ban but claims eye-gouge ‘was never intentional’

US update

More news

  • A man walks down a street covered in mud after flood waters receded

    Environment
    ‘Not normal’: Climate crisis supercharged deadly monsoon floods in Asia

    Cyclones like those in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Malaysia that killed 1,750 are ‘alarming new reality’
  • Nobel peace prize winner María Corina Machado waves to the crowd from the balcony of the Grand Hotel in Oslo, Norway, in the early hours of Thursday.

    Norway
    Venezuelan Nobel peace prize winner greets crowds in Oslo after nearly a year in hiding

  • Girls sit behind a tractor as they are evacuated amid deadly clashes between Thailand and Cambodia.

    Border dispute
    Half a million evacuated on Thai-Cambodia border as Trump makes diplomatic push to end fighting

  • Ethan Bundle-Bell

    Education
    As Victorian students awake to check their Atars, Ethan becomes first in his family to get a year 12 certificate

  • Black Lives Matter Rally, Melbourne, Australia - 06 Jun 2020

    Deaths in custody
    ‘Deaths, after deaths, after deaths’: Indigenous deaths in custody reach their highest level since 1980

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Explainers & analysis

  1. two men standing in suits on a stage next to an award

    Analysis
    Trump continues to sow chaos and division after winning Fifa peace prize

  2. A UK Border Force vessel.

    Explainer
    What does UK want to change about human rights law – and will it happen?

  3. a woman in front of a microphone

    Analysis
    A Democratic mayor for Miami is not just Trump backlash – it’s a seismic shift

  4. Crowd of people gathered around 3 stacks of gold coins looking up at one person standing on top of them

    The super-rich
    ‘The 0.001%’: a quick visual breakdown of the world’s wealthiest people

More Australia news

  1. Sydney
    Cronulla riots 20 years on: have attitudes changed since that hot December day when racial tensions exploded?

  2. Transport
    NSW government accused of breaking election promise as it confirms two-way tolling on Sydney Harbour Bridge

  3. Marine life
    Hundreds of sharks filmed in bait fish feeding frenzy near Byron Bay

  4. South Australia
    A vision splendid or eyesore? SA court to rule on ‘Blue Blob’ sculpture vandalism charge

More world news

  1. Fashion
    Beyoncé, Venus Williams and Nicole Kidman to co-chair Met Gala with Anna Wintour

  2. UK
    Meghan accuses Daily Mail of ethics breach over reporting from father’s bedside

  3. Business
    Elon Musk’s SpaceX ‘preparing for flotation that could value it at over $1tn’

  4. Inequality
    Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds

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Culture

  • Russell Crowe in Gladiator, 2000.

    Film
    Russell Crowe says makers of Gladiator II did not ‘understand what made the first one special’

  • Madeleine Wickham, AKA Sophie Kinsella.

    Books
    Confessions of a Shopaholic novelist Sophie Kinsella dies aged 55

What to watch

  1. man stands with both hands open

    Late-night TV
    Jimmy Kimmel on Trump: ‘What a child he is’

  2. Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega appear in The Gallerist by Cathy Yan, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by MRC II Distribution Company L.P.

    Sundance film festival
    Charli xcx, Natalie Portman and Salman Rushdie lead 2026 Sundance lineup

  3. ELLA MCCAYEmma Mackey as Ella McCay in 20th Century Studios' ELLA MCCAY. Photo by Claire Folger. © 2025 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

    Film
    Ella McCay review – James L Brooks returns with a sorry mess of a movie

  4. Peter Bradshaw

    Quentin Tarantino needs to stop criticising films and start making them again

    Peter Bradshaw

What to listen to

  1. Full Story podcast
    The expensive expenses of Anika Wells

    Podcast19:50
  2. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.

    Music
    ‘We are truly doomed’: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard despair at AI clone appearing on Spotify

  3. John Glacier, Cate Le Bon

    Music
    The 50 best albums of 2025: 50 to 21

  4. Happy woman wearing headphones

    Podcasts
    Tell us your favourite new podcast of 2025

What to read

  1. US-POLITICS-CORRESPONDENTSReporter Olivia Nuzzi arrives for the White House Correspondents' Association dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC, April 29, 2023. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds / AFP) (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

    Books
    American Canto by Olivia Nuzzi review – insufferable filler that sidesteps the real issues

  2. Naomi Alderman.

    History books
    Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today by Naomi Alderman review – how to navigate the information crisis

  3. Jane Birkin in 1969.

    Biography
    It Girl by Marisa Meltzer review – how Jane Birkin became an icon

  4. Fiction

    Year in review
    The best fiction of 2025

What to play

  1. Skate Story.

    Games
    Skate Story review – hellish premise aside, this is skateboarding paradise

  2. People at table covered in cards

    Pokémon
    ‘Kids can’t buy them anywhere’: how Pokémon cards became a stock market for millennials

  3. Illustration of people playing a board game

    Board games
    Roll with it: the 30 best board games for Christmas 2025

  4. Horses game

    Games
    Horror game Horses has been banned from sale – but is it as controversial as you’d think?

More culture

  1. a man in front of a microphone

    Photography
    Sounds like activism: musicians who fight for change – in pictures

    Gallery18
  2. a webpage showing posters of recently released movies

    Film
    Film bro finds and ‘crash out cinema’: how Letterboxd became a review haven for the algorithm-averse

  3. Four people wearing sunglasses and shiny silver outfits behind a piece of stage scenery representing a boat

    Eurovision
    Iceland becomes fifth country to boycott Eurovision 2026 over Israel

  4. ‘Utterly, properly joyous’ … Nnena Kalu at the Turner prize ceremony.

    Art
    ‘Nnena Kalu was ready for this – nobody else was’: how her Turner prize victory shook the art world

Lifestyle

Food

  1. Alice Zaslavski Veg TerrineFor Alice Zaslavsky recipes. Alice Zaslavsky Veg Terrine. Melbourne. Australia. 14 October 2025

    You've got this
    Alice Zaslavsky’s festive vegetable terrine – recipe

  2. Closeup of a chef lifting sauce-covered pasta from a pan

    Cooking
    Italy first country to win Unesco recognition for national cuisine

  3. Adriann Ramirez' black pepper soft gingerbread cookies in several familiar shapes with icing on top, such as the 'gingerbread man' motif, a traditional angel, a Christmas tree, and a five-pointed star. Two green gift tags have been added to the human-shaped biscuits.

    Festive treats
    Adriann Ramirez’s recipes for pumpkin loaf and gingerbread cookies

  4. Dhruti Shah with her takeaway box at Fair Shot in Covent Garden

    The one change that worked
    I started bringing my own takeaway box to every meal – and sparked a mini movement

Wellbeing

  1. Antiviral nad1

    Antiviral
    Longevity supplements are sold as helping prevent ageing. But do they have any long-term benefits or increase lifespan?

    Melissa Davey
  2. Energy drink cans on display on a supermarket aisle

    Health
    Consuming lots of energy drinks may raise heart disease and stroke risk, say doctors

  3. a cup of an orange fluid with a thermometer in it

    Well actually
    Is it a good idea to have a hot toddy when you’re sick?

  4. Illustration of Giardia lamblia

    Pass notes
    Parasite cleanses: why are so many people obsessed with intestinal worms?

Advice

  1. TicketsTicket booth concept art for Kat George's column

    Consumer service
    Ticketek charged a $9 processing fee for my $35 ticket. Is this reasonable?

  2. Close up of a woman making eco-friendly Christmas decorations from orange peel

    The Filter
    Shop secondhand, shred your veg and try ‘furoshiki’ wrapping: 14 easy ways to cut Christmas waste

  3. Caroline Idiens poses holding some weights

    Technology
    ‘It has to be genuine’: older influencers drive growth on social media

  4. a woman being dangled off a foot

    This is how we do it
    Her work crush led to us having clinging-on-for-dear-life sex

Fashion & beauty

  1. A model on the catwalk at a Miu Miu show.

    Fashion industry
    1 Granary: the influential platform holding the fashion establishment to account

  2. Dan Prior in the driver’s seat of a 74 Holden HQ with his son Hunter Prior.

    In pictures
    Mulletfest 2025: bogan games, beer pong and 1-metre pony tails

    Gallery15
  3. Michael Kors and Megan Thee Stallion at the Met Gala

    Fashion
    ‘You have to stay curious’: Michael Kors on his inclusive brand’s global rise

  4. Left: Vivienne Westwood outfits from the Portrait collection, autumn-winter 1990-91. Right: Comme des Garçons Look 6 from the Body Meets Dress–Dress Meets Body collection, spring-summer 1997 (detail)

    In pictures
    Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo’s parallel careers

    Gallery17

Travel

  • Two large wooden nutcracker characters stand among other smaller woodwork and figurines

    Travel
    ‘This is the real Santa’s workshop’: a trip to Germany’s toy village

  • A woman sits on a leather chair with a book and coffee while an aiport lounge attendant stands next to her

    My dream of jet set glamour has died – in a pleather chair full of other people’s crumbs

    Emma Beddington

Relationships

  1. Anna Woodford on a train around the time of the crash.

    A moment that changed me
    My train crashed – and then I heard a little girl crying

  2. Linked hands of bride and groom

    Promiscuity
    Humans rank above meerkats but below beavers in monogamy league table

  3. Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau cheek to cheek and smiling

    Social media
    The art of going ‘Instagram official’: how 10 celebrity couples shared their love with the world

  4. Miranda and Darcy in Scotland, 2019.

    The moment I knew
    We were discussing Jane Austen when I told her I wanted to be with her for ever

You may have missed

  1. A crowd gathers outside Northies hotel at Cronulla after a man was chased inside on Sunday 11 December 2005

    Sydney
    Cronulla riots 20 years on: have attitudes changed since that hot December day when racial tensions exploded?

  2. Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing in Friends

    Addiction in America
    The hidden life of Matthew Perry: ‘He would say: I need to stop and get help’

  3. A snow-covered peak

    Kashmir
    ‘Even the animals seem confused’: retreating glacier creates entire new world in its wake

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    A snow patrol, Dior dresses and Storm Bram

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