Police also authorised a June protest outside NSW parliament by a group called "White Australia", who led Saturday's event.

Hannah Thomas required surgery after police allegedly struck her at a pro-Palestine protest. She was charged with three offences. She's "sickened" to see the force approve a neo-Nazi rally on the steps of parliament, arguing it exposes "a clear double standard". www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australia’s $20m purchase of missiles from an Israeli arms company for its “iron fist” weapons system on infantry vehicles has been condemned as “morally questionable” and reflective of a “troubling acceptance” of Israel’s conduct in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Crossbench MPs and a transparency group have criticised the gambling lobby’s sponsorship of federal parliament’s sports club, alleging it paid to secure access to decision-makers and entrench wagering’s close association with sport.

The finance department has rejected a last minute plea from Deborah O'Neill, Barbara Pocock and Richard Colbeck to not lift a ban on PwC Australia competing for new government work. The decision - originally scheduled to be published on 25 July - is now public. www.finance.gov.au/government/p...

Exclusive: Australia’s largest superannuation fund has divested more than $26m of shares in poker machine giant Aristocrat from its “socially aware” option, after sustained criticism of its support for the gambling industry. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Former Hong Kong politician and prominent democracy campaigner, Carmen Lau, has accused British police of asking her to “self-censor” and “retreat from public life” after officers asked her to agree to avoid public gatherings www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The Victorian Liberals want to put a damaging saga behind them. But leaked messages show “it’s not that easy to just move on”https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/21/victorias-liberals-saved-john-pesutto-from-bankruptcy-but-can-they-save-themselves-from-all-out-war-ntwnfb

Paul Erickson: unmasking the mastermind behind Labor’s winning election strategy www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The Liberals 2022 election review found in the top 15 seats by Chinese ancestry, the 2PP swing against them was 6.6% compared with 3.7% in other seats. In response to Hume’s comments, one WeChat user said: “How could the Liberals say things like this? Everyone should put the Liberals last.”

From yesterday, but this story highlights a real issue brewing in crucial seats with large Chinese-Australian communities. The Liberal candidate in Bennelong distances himself from the party - as Penny Wong seizes on Jane Hume's "communist spy" comments in WeChat ads, speaking in Mandarin.

Exclusive: Trump campaign chief claims he visited Australia to advise Liberals at start of election campaign

The Liberal candidate for Reid, Grange Chung, has apologised for distributing a four-page booklet commemorating Anzac Day that also encouraged people to vote from him and linked to a how-to-vote card.

Rebranding Peter Dutton: has he done enough to shed ‘heartless hard-ass’ image to win top job?

Bit going on in the ultramarginal seat of Macnamara, including a ban on the Greens candidate attending a Jewish community forum and a push to make Labor’s Josh Burns preference the minor party last www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... with @henrybelot.bsky.social for @australia.theguardian.com

Peter Dutton revealing plans to move to Sydney instead of Canberra if elected ‘arrogant’, Katy Gallagher says

Hong Kong activist in Australia targeted with letter offering reward for information about his family, days after China accused the Albanese government of "blatantly interfering in Hong Kong's rule of law".

Peter Dutton has told the Coalition party room to stop leaking internal policy debates and frustrations to the media, warning it could cost them the election. Kos Samaras, a former Labor strategist, says the leaking of a warning not to leak indicates “panic on the Coalition side”.

Liberal backbenchers urge Coalition not to raid foreign aid budget to pay for rumoured $15bn defence boost

Exclusive: Peter Dutton’s taxpayer-funded flight to ‘long lunch’ on Noosa River was investigated by expenses watchdog www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Unclear who sent the letters, but senders seemed to use tactics allegedly used by the Chinese & Hong Kong governments “to paint a target on the backs of those they don’t like & let everyone know they can harass & intimidate those the govt perceives as enemies” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The architect of global Magnitsky sanctions – which punish human rights abusers and corrupt officials – has warned Peter Dutton’s desire to bring back a controversial “golden ticket” visa scheme would be “a big mistake”

Exclusive: ‘Disgusting’ antisemitic tactics used to threaten exiled Hong Kong man in Adelaide, Jewish group says

Exclusive: Fake pamphlets falsely accusing a former Hong Kong politician and Australian resident, Ted Hui, of being an pro-Israel lawyer willing to “wage war” against Islamic terrorism were allegedly mailed to mosques in Adelaide in an apparent attempt to intimidate him and undermine social cohesion

Exclusive: A small number of Melbourne residents have received anonymous letters purporting to offer a police bounty of $203,000 if they inform on Kevin Yam, an Australian citizen and pro-democracy activist wanted for alleged national security crimes in Hong Kong.

“I don’t see a world in which we revise any package”... I’m sad in as much as I think it is a great opportunity”.

Anthony Albanese has cancelled an “intimate” and “exclusive” fundraising dinner capped at just 10 people in Sydney amid controversy over Peter Dutton’s attendance at a lavish party in the city prior to the onset of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred.

Officials have warned the Western Australian Labor government that work to build wind and solar farms for the state’s main electricity grid has stalled under its leadership, a leaked document shows. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The AFL has admitted its integrity system for online gambling is seriously deficient and struggles to identity whether players, coaches and staff are using inside information to manipulate betting markets, in breach of their contracts.

As the federal government declines to restrict betting ads, the AFL is seeking a bigger share of gambling losses. Not all bookmakers are impressed. Reminder: The AFL gets a percentage of money lost on its games. The cut is higher for multi-bets, which have a higher fail rate.

Streaming giant Paramount+ splashed ads for an offshore gambling company known for bikini-clad croupiers during an A-League match last week, in a potential breach of advertising rules. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I thought governments were *supposed* to make moral judgments so 🤷🏼‍♀️

Disturbing report. Good comments from Curtin MP Kate Chaney.

Jonas Eckstein pulled a Torah scroll from a fire-bombed synagogue in Bratislava during the Holocaust. Almost 80 years years later, his son had to pull the same scroll from a charred synagogue in Melbourne.

Several federal politicians have urged Sportsbet to “immediately” pull its ads from the social media app Snapchat after Guardian Australia reported that they can be viewed by children.

#EXCLUSIVE: Sportsbet Snapchat filters allow children to see gambling ads and direct 18+ users to open a gambling account

Gambling ads from Sportsbet can reach children on Snapchat through special promotional filters despite the platform attempting to restrict access, Guardian Australia can reveal.

In 2024, I would have thought this sort of technical capability should be held within the federal government. But they say they don’t have the “technical capacity” so outsource it to management consultants.

The consultancy firm McKinsey was paid $1.6m over 11 weeks to “inform” and “guide” Australian energy and climate policy, despite its work for the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies.

Too young to be on social media but old enough to lock up for life… www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

‘Still have their baby teeth’: Queensland children as young as 10 to face life sentences for murder under new laws

University of Sydney senate has backed a new “civility rule” requiring speakers to “make the meaning of contested words and phrases clear to the audience” and maintain its strict ban on protests in buildings, prompting accusations it's curbing freedom of speech. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Michelle Rowland’s office has apologised to multiple people harmed by the gambling industry after delaying long-awaited advertising reforms, admitting government action has taken “longer than hoped”.

Fascinating from @henrybelot.bsky.social in @australia.theguardian.com : "Some within the gambling industry admit they too have played a role in creating these syndicates, citing intense competition between bookmakers that has fuelled a booming $50bn industry." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A gambling syndicate has purchased ID docs for $1000 and then hoodwinked major banks and bookies. They’ve created multiple bank and gambling accounts in other names, undetected until now. Cash deposited into ATMs has then been run through at least eight bookies. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Leaked confidential report shows the NSW government's independent panel on gambling reform thinks anonymous pokies use should continue until 2028, with current trading hours.

More than 5,000 people have lodged complaints with a financial watchdog about how the 10 largest superannuation funds have handled death and group insurance claims over four years.

Your ID for $400: warnings issued after Australian gambling syndicates offer money for documents