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With India's World Cup victory, women's cricket is forever changed In a short period of time, women's cricket in India has travelled from uneven, dusty grounds to floodlit stadiums packed with roaring fans. The team's upset victory promises yet more investment in the women's game from the world's most fanatical cricketing nation.

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Labor accused of ‘burying’ controversial jobs for mates report after going to extraordinary lengths to keep secret Secrecy around public release of 2023 review findings has angered crossbenchers in parliament, leading to Senate question time revolt * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Labor is going to extraordinary lengths to keep secret a controversial report on jobs for mates in the federal government, after losing control of the Senate last week and threatening roll calls to ensure attendance at question time. After winning the 2022 election, the Albanese government commissioned former Australian public service commissioner Lynelle Briggs to review appointment processes for government boards. Continue reading...

Labor accused of ‘burying’ controversial jobs for mates report after going to extraordinary lengths to keep secret

My son was stillborn in 2020. By allowing working parents time to grieve, Baby Priya’s bill will change lives | Gemma Killen I can hardly imagine how hard it would have been to return to a workplace that had declared that I was not a parent – and that my baby didn’t really count This week I became somewhat of a vigilante keyboard warrior, trawling posts about the passing of baby Priya’s bill to correct every commenter that wilfully misunderstood the bill or used it as an excuse to pick a fight about women’s rights. No, the bill will not put small business owners out of business by forcing them to offer unlimited paid leave. No, the bill won’t mean women’s employment numbers go down. And very importantly, no, the bill does not incentivise late-term terminations. The Australian federal parliament passed baby Priya’s bill – an amendment to the Fair Work Act – to ensure employers cannot cancel paid parental leave in the event of stillbirth or because a baby dies after birth. The change brings employer paid parental leave in line with government-funded parental leave and unpaid parental leave. Continue reading...

My son was stillborn in 2020. By allowing working parents time to grieve, Baby Priya’s bill will change lives | Gemma Killen

Fake claims about Australian road rules on headlights generated by AI and spread on Google Google search results displayed false information from an AI website about drivers risking a $250 fine for not keeping their headlights on at all times * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The New South Wales transport department has warned the rise of AI is increasing misinformation about road rules, after false claims that drivers must legally keep their headlights on at all times spread online. When Australians searched for “Australian road rules for headlights”, Google summarised – and linked to – a site falsely claiming that drivers will need to keep headlights on at all times or face a $250 fine from 10 November. Continue reading...

Fake claims about Australian road rules on headlights generated by AI and spread on Google

Great Barrier Reef could recover from rapid coral decline if global heating was kept to 2C, study finds University of Queensland modelling warns of ‘grim future’ for corals once global temperatures cross threshold * Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here The Great Barrier Reef will undergo “rapid coral decline” until 2050 but could recover if global heating is kept below 2C, according to the most detailed modelling so far of the future of the world’s biggest coral reef. The finding contradicts a widely held view that the decline of the oceanic gem would become irreversible as global temperatures rise above 1.5C, with one report last month suggesting the world’s tropical corals had already reached a tipping point of long-term decline. Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...

Great Barrier Reef could recover from rapid coral decline if global heating was kept to 2C, study finds

My chilling week on Roblox: sexually assaulted and shat on as a child avatar roaming the online world In seven days my young alter ego is cyberbullied and attacked while exploring clubs, casinos and horror games, all with parental controls in place. Is the platform safe for children – or an ‘X-rated paedophile hellscape’?

In seven days my young alter ego is cyberbullied and attacked while exploring clubs, casinos and horror games, all with parental controls in place. Is Roblox safe for children – or an ‘X-rated paedophile hellscape’?

How Mamdani broke the Democrat machine | Fiona Katauskas Will they listen to his message? * See more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here Continue reading...

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The good news is that boys believe in gender equality. The scary question is: will they forget when they become men? | Lucy Clark Online influencers like Andrew Tate have a smaller impact than thought but there’s still grim news about boys who hold harmful ideas about masculinity There’s a moment in a boy’s life when it almost hurts to look at them, so beautiful and vulnerable are they. Manhood is right there knocking on their door, and these tow-headed, big-eyed boys open it and for a time there is one foot in, one foot out, trying out this new space, going back into the comfort of the old. Back and forth. It’s a vexing time. Some boys are more like men, some boys are more like babies. They vary massively in size and adult masculinity. Hormones surge, or may yet be a year away. At about the same time, they are leaving the top of the heap at primary school, where they know everyone and everyone knows them, and they go to the bottom of the heap at high school, a daunting experience for everyone, girls too. Boys need help. And, yes, men need fixing – I’m mindful of that. Males arrive in our community on the coattails of an almost endless chain of unexamined privilege. I don’t deny that for a second. But patriarchy is bondage for boys, too. It disfigures them. Even if they’re the last to notice. Even if they profit from it. Continue reading...

The good news is that boys believe in gender equality. The scary question is: will they forget when they become men? | Lucy Clark

Pauline Hanson skips parliament to speak at $25k-a-head conservative conference at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago One Nation leader also seen with Gina Rinehart – and many of her talking points align with mining magnate * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Pauline Hanson skipped parliament this week to speak at a $25,000-a-head conservative conference at Donald Trump’s luxury resort in Florida, where she was pictured alongside Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest woman. The One Nation leader, who resided at Mar-a-Lago ahead of her address at the multi-day event run by the Conservative Political Action Conference, lambasted both major parties in Australia during the speech while praising the US administration for deporting immigrants, bombing drug cartel boats and supercharging mining projects. Continue reading...

Pauline Hanson skips parliament to speak at $25k-a-head conservative conference at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

AI is changing how people find information – but it can’t replace journalism.

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Metro stations, country homes and a picnic shelter: Australia’s 2025 national architecture award winners – in pictures More than 40 projects were recognised in the national awards, identifying contemporary designs that offer solutions to critical national issues, including housing shortages, affordability and the climate crisis * Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Continue reading...

Metro stations, country homes and a picnic shelter: Australia’s 2025 national architecture award winners – in pictures

Bowen urges world to unite on climate fight, declaring it an ‘environmental imperative’ Climate change minister endorses UK prime minister’s grim view on global climate action, saying net zero by 2050 policies are ‘bare minimum necessary’ * Australian Politics podcast: Why net zero is dividing parliament, with Chris Bowen * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Chris Bowen, the climate change and energy minister, has endorsed Keir Starmer’s grim assessment of the international consensus on limiting global temperature increases, insisting net zero emissions by 2050 policies represent the “bare minimum” needed to protect the globe. The UK prime minister told world leaders on Thursday at the Cop30 climate summit in Brazil that the “consensus is gone” on fighting climate change around the world, a decade after the landmark Paris agreement in 2015. Continue reading...

Bowen urges world to unite on climate fight, declaring it an ‘environmental imperative’

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New York City Chose a Brown Muslim Socialist. The Right Is Having a 'Red Scare' Meltdown — and It's Glorious. This Substack is reader-supported.

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Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, UN chief tells Cop30 summit UN secretary general António Guterres urges opening session in Brazil to bring about a ‘fundamental paradigm shift’

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Tasmania becomes first Australian state to offer compensation for homosexuality convictions

📢 Tasmania has become the first state in Australia to offer compensation for those charged or convicted of homosexuality or cross-dressing. Tasmania Correspondent Kerrin Thomas has more from Hobart

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