Similar logos, different views: Australia’s peak health body for men distances itself from conservative group’s International Men’s Day campaign

Bingo card-style game, where supporters encouraged to ‘buy’ words and phrases linked to contentious abortion bill, condemned by crossbench MLCs as a ‘grift’ that trivialised debate

Blyth, after months of hearing evidence about SA’s devastating algal bloom, says re net zero “I don’t think that we can be stewards of the environment if we can’t afford it.”

ACL says laws targeting “coercive behaviour in faith-based institutions” would be “very dangerous” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“Good boy” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The Tawny frogmouth has emerged as an early favourite as we enter day four of the bird of the year contest! As of the close of voting last night, the muppet-like frogmouth had increased its lead over Baudin's black cockatoo, surging ahead by 1,372 votes www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

VIP appearances, books and beer: what Valerie the dachshund is up to after her Kangaroo Island adventure

Melbourne’s men-only Savage Club ends trial of allowing women entry to dine two days a week

“In the rush to canonize Kirk and revise his history, honest accountings of his life have not only become rare – they have also become dangerous.”https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/14/charlie-kirk-killing?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Rare fish spotted in the wild

John Howard talking about people going overboard 🙄

Adelaide today

Breaking: PM Albanese says ASIO has evidence the Iranian government "directed at least two" anti-Semitic attacks in Australia Government expelling Iranian ambassador - and will list IRGC as a terror organisation

It’s not quite the secondhand filing cabinet cabinet docs but …

😂 it’s been a while! Feels like being back on twitter

“Weirdly compelling” monotreme tale

But six years ago, when Camp Mystic pursued a $5 million construction project to overhaul and expand its private, for-profit Christian camp, no effort was made to relocate the most at-risk cabins away from the river

On joggers and jump scares in the dark

Should Australia worry about RFK Jr’s shock flu vaccine move? Garry Grohmann, former TGA, and I have made some comments on this today for @australia.theguardian.com @toryshepherd.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

In my university days a goon was an entirely different thing: Instagram account dedicated to masturbation suspended after allegedly infringing University of Melbourne’s trademark

This whole podcast is really good overall but this is episode is especially well done and heartbreaking

What he said!

“What befell the survivors was sheer horror – anarchy, tyranny, madness, murder and rape, in a reign of terror where people were picked off one-by-one."

“I’d argue we didn’t do enough of a culture war,” Credlin said. 🥴

Can’t wait to hear certain Libs argue that this means the party needs to move further to the right

Australians. Super important info about where you can get a democracy sausage when you vote tomorrow. Americans could learn from us. Even with non-compulsory voting there, more folks would turn out if they knew hotdogs 🌭would be available. Amiright?!! democracysausage.org/federal_elec...

They’re so startled they’re … turtling?

Don't call me hate media just because there may be some hating on feral cats

Amazing

Valerie the miniature dachshund sparks mixed feelings: “Seeing that long body and wiggly bum was just the boost everyone needed,” searchers say. “She’ll be feral,” says a local.

@toryshepherd.bsky.social on what could turn out to be one of our Federal election issues - and our episode starts with a fun pop quiz too! #FullStory www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This is WILD

Today's earworm: Craig Emerson with No Whyalla Wipeout

Those elites better watch out now the billionaires are in charge

“Having a kid on your shoulders makes you seem less like a robber baron with a weird breeding fetish and more like a fun dad.”

"[Library] doors are open to all, offering a space where everyone is welcome, no matter what issues they carry with them.”

I have no doubt we will win … and we are well and truly the underdogs … (I do not think that word means what you think it means)

Positive AND adorable story!

Talk about mission creep

'The data showed conclusively that far-right populism was “the strongest determinant for the propensity to spread of misinformation”'

Proud to share a story that’s been almost six months in the making, the first in a new series from @australia.theguardian.com exploring the ways our criminal justice system fails victim-survivors of sexual violence and often retraumatises them in the process: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Moderate Liberals losing ground as hard-right faction looms large in Senate battle

Striking findings I just had to share on … social media …