Hello, @australia.theguardian.com is looking for 800 word opinion pieces that can run any time over the summer months. They can be funny, serious, sad, thoughtful, uplifting... Surprise us! If you have an idea you'd like to pitch, email [email protected] with SUMMER PITCH in the subject

"In his only interview before next month’s Cop30 climate summit, António Guterres acknowledged it is now 'inevitable' that humanity will overshoot the target in the Paris climate agreement, with 'devastating consequences' for the world." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Pregnancy skincare products target women at a vulnerable time. Do any work or do they just stretch the truth? | Antiviral

Study in the Lancet journal finds that Israel's starvation campaign in Gaza has left 55,000 children under the age of five acutely malnourished, risking long-term health damage. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Peter Combe goes hard: “Children are being slaughtered, on a daily basis, for almost two years. Our ability to ignore it astounds me. You can talk to any NGO, they all say the same thing – it’s a genocide ... I hope people aren’t surprised I feel the way I do." www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Bird of the year voting update! The top 3 have been rock solid over the whole poll. The little penguin, rainbow bee-eater, pelican and splendid fairy-wren have all crashed out of the top 10, while the galah and emu-wren are surging ahead

V happy to say I'm now assistant climate, environment and science editor @australia.theguardian.com, back working with the best team ie @adammorton.bsky.social @readfearn.bsky.social @lisacox.bsky.social @petrastock.bsky.social! Pls get in touch with tips/pitches (& ways to ensure a tawny BOTY win)!

On ghouls, a triple murder, tragedy www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

As good a week as any to mention that I have started a stint as an assistant news editor in the Melbourne bureau @australia.theguardian.com 🤠 Please get in touch if you spot things we should be covering

@donnadlu.bsky.social got to the bottom of why Kaitlyn Dever's Australian accent in Apple Cider Vinegar was so good. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

For the culture desk, I wrote about why American and British actors no longer seem to butcher (or butch-ah) the Australian accent www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The social, successful and the supernatural: I wrote about charisma and why having it depends on who you ask www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"I always thought space travel was futuristic, but this was the first time it came off as travelling back in time, in this case using their little capsule to take us back to the most ludicrous inanities of 2010s girlboss feminism." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Guardian Australia has launched a series about nature and threatened species. It's called Last Chance: The extinction crisis the Australian federal election is ignoring. Includes videos, news and comment pieces. Here's a preview of what it's about: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4kQ...

I think I missed some. But here’s a fun fact: the Heard and Macdonald Islands are uninhabited. The tariff is on penguins.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com reporting on the proposed changes to the ARC grants system. There’s concern that getting rid of standalone fellowships will have lots of unintended consequences, especially for Early-Career Researchers. By @donnadlu.bsky.social

Study casts doubt on gluten as cause of gut ailments among non-coeliacs

Marina Hyde in form. "They really should make a darkly satirical TV show about these absurd, degenerate, unpleasant people. Call it The White Potus" "Hegseth’s sole comment on the bed he and the guys just shat was to attack the man to whom they personally served this scoop" www.theguardian.com/...

My column this week is about how fucking BAD the body image/fatphobic vibes are at the moment and how other people need to engage before it destroys us all. I don’t ever insist you read my stuff but I’d love you to read this one www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump cuts to have ‘chilling effect’ on climate science and ‘degrade’ Australia’s ability to forecast weather - by @donnadlu.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Australian scientists and weather forecasters rely on US data and models — NOAA cuts will have a “chilling effect” on climate science and may impact Australia’s ability to accurately predict our future climate, scientists told me www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

As the federal election approaches, our new podcast series explores how much power and influence Gina Rinehart has - listen to the teaser: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

From @dpcarrington.bsky.social: "17 cities across the globe have been hit by climate whiplash, suffering more frequent extremes of both wet and dry conditions" – including Hangzhou, Jakarta, Dallas, Baghdad, Bangkok, Nairobi and Melbourne www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This piece from Joe Hinchliffe is beautifully poignant and so quintessentially Queensland www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

“While women do significantly more paid work than they used to, this divide of unpaid work at home has not changed significantly since we started measuring in 2002.” 🙃 By @caitkelly.bsky.social & @joshnicholas.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

The first thing I have read or heard from a sitting MP that echoes the concerns and conversations I’ve been having everywhere, with everyone, unprompted, for weeks now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

From @louiseadler1.bsky.social: "The long-term sustainability of arts organisations is under threat, once again, from a lack of funding, poor governance, declining and ageing audiences and a lack of courageous leadership." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

EXCLUSIVE: Two Palestinian flags on a tapestry on display at the National Gallery of Australia have been concealed with white fabric, in what the artists have described as an act of censorship they only agreed to reluctantly.

Antiviral, our column that fact checks health and wellness claims, is back! New from me: ‘Grounding’ proponents say it helps us realign with the Earth’s electric charge – but the claims don’t land www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This sounds excellent – can't wait to read when it comes out in Aus @madeleinewatts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

This thread, and all of Nour's reporting on the issue, is well worth reading www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Large areas of WA’s Ningaloo corals could die in ‘weeks ahead’ after widespread bleaching documented by @donnadlu.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Memories emerge earlier in some cultures than others, but researchers have long puzzled over our inability to recall events before two or three years of age... www.theguardian.com/science/2025... by @donnadlu.bsky.social

folks in my town talked about these fires again after the recent LA fires - getting my tax done, and my accountant wanted to share stories of what happened in Dargan. the scars, trauma is still so close, the bush and forest barely recovering five years later

Five years on from February 2020, when the worst of the Black Summer fires were extinguished, Guardian Australia is looking back – we spoke to individuals affected by lost lives, houses, wilderness and sacred sites, and about the ongoing health impacts www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This is a significant announcement. Years of lobbying, media attention and angry women have led to this moment. May there be much more to come - www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Scientists have produced kangaroo embryos through IVF for the first time, in a development they say could help conservation of endangered animals - @donnadlu.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

helpful and important to stop thinking of x as a social media platform and see and talk about it for what it is: a political weapon

During the Black Summer bushfires, volunteer firefighter and visual artist CJ Taylor experienced a flashover—a fire burning over his brigade’s truck. That experience was the spark for a mesmerising and disquieting exhibition that opens in Melbourne today: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Exclusive from @readfearn.bsky.social: the Aus government carried out an international lobbying campaign to keep the Great Barrier Reef off a list of world heritage sites in danger, including dispatching politicians and officials to Unesco’s Paris headquarters www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We asked DeepSeek’s AI questions about topics historically censored by the great firewall. Here’s how its responses compared to the free versions of ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini chatbot. From @donnadlu.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I loved recording this podcast with the brilliant @donnadlu.bsky.social, who challenged all my preconceived notions about multivitamins and whether we need to be taking them. Listen here. #FullStory Guardian Australia www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw

That awkward age when you're too old to play the Dane, but too young for Lear. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

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Wrote about Monkey Christ, restoration nightmares and the fascinating work of art conservation www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

It's the last day of 2024 so I would like to call out some of our journalism from the year. First, Amy Hawkins travelled to Bosnia to tell the story of the small but growing number of Chinese people travelling to the Balkans with the hope of getting into the EU. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/s...

Wrote about animal divorce – turns out Australian birds are more monogamous than Europeans, but also have some of the highest rates of cuckoldry www.theguardian.com/science/2024...