The latest instalment of an ongoing investigation from @ninobucci.bsky.social and I, looking at police use of so-called "less lethal" weapons in Australia. Today -- projectiles, including bean-bag and foam baton rounds. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

There were hundreds if not thousands of people searched using these designated area powers that didn’t comply with the law, and 33 people were charged or fined. VicPol notifying IBAC. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Scout* barely realised that something round and hard, with smoke coming from it, had landed in front of them before it exploded. Pain suddenly shot through their leg and arm. Scout fell to their knees, before someone nearby helped them rush out of the area. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Worth a listen podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/w...

Had to cast my mind back to before some of these teens were born for this: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The Victorian Office of Public Prosecutions will not charge Kyle and Jackie O with contempt for potentially prejudicial comments made during the trial of mushroom triple-murderer Erin Patterson, including Kyle saying “lock that bitch up”. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Putting aside how odorous this particular choice is, surely skipping parliament at all for seemingly commercial purposes shouldn’t be allowed?

In winter this year, a young Aboriginal man with a history of self-harm who was remanded in custody in Melbourne was told he would be moving cells. And so he was driven 300km to the police cells in Wodonga. Welcome to the process known as “decanting”. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

North Melbourne are playing in a league of their own. Here is how the remaining challengers can break @nmfcofficial.bsky.social stranglehold on the #AFLW www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...

I found out while working on this piece about nitazenes that police have closed the investigation into who supplied the “cocaine” linked to four overdoses in Melbourne last year. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

My colleague Adeshola Ore and I took a look at hate crimes in Australia, getting a deeper sense of the issue beyond the frenzy of new laws and debate post October 7. We found a complex picture of how police deal with complaints, but that there had been about 435 charges for hate crimes since 2020.

On the Roos, the best team I've ever seen: www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2...

Seeing lots of reviews on Tony Abbott’s book on Australia, but none that tackle the real issue: did he explain the history of Australian street libraries

Bombers should have taken the deal. The club would be better off without a captain who wants to leave so much that he calls the president begging for it.

“Lawyers and activists say these incidents fit a pattern of increased police force against protesters – including so-called ‘less-lethal’ tools such as baton rounds, flash-bang devices and capsicum spray.” 7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/why...

The coroner told the NT government in 2007 to keep a database about maintenance in public housing. It didn’t listen. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Lots of talk about bari weiss but not enough about weis bars

The Victorian DPP is appealing Erin Patterson‘s sentence on the basis it was “manifestly inadequate”. On 8 September, Patterson was sentenced to life with a non-parole period of 33 years for the murders of Don and Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson, and the attempted murder of Ian Wilkinson.

NT DPP appealing this (non custodial) sentence, per the ABC.

In 2023, I spent a few months investigating why so many Aboriginal pedestrians were killed in road accidents in the NT. There was a lingering sense that racism played a part in this over representation, and that some drivers were dehumanising Aboriginal people. And lo: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Has there ever been a greater embodiment of everything wrong with the Bombers than Patrick Voss? No, Steve Dank doesn’t count

So proud to work with Lorena, Sarah and Ella on this series. Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Was sure it would be Rip Rip Woodchip #hottest100

Well this was terrifying www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/b...

An important follow on the Walker findings: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Spent yesterday in Yuendumu, a place I’d wrote about and thought about for the past five years but never visited www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... A brilliant investigation by @lisacox.bsky.social

Former sports presenter and CURRENT Port Adelaide board member Warren Tredrea has cited pseudolaw/sovereign citizen ideas when telling a court he's already paid Nine costs for a failed appeal for being sacked for refusing to get vaccinated www.adelaidenow.com....

The Horn of Reason sounds again. www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2...

The first stories from our five-month investigation: Scouring coronial findings from 248 deaths, we found a staggering 57 Australians have killed themselves in the past two decades using hanging points in prisons that authorities knew about but failed to remove www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This does so much heavy lifting, bringing the lens all the way in to the individual horror, and then back out again to the institutional failings. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Longing for a deeply researched piece on this coalition split that reveals Littleproud made the decision while driving along the Tuggeranong Parkway blasting Tom Petty’s I Won’t Back Down from a Hilux

A case that has gripped the nation, and the world. @ninobucci.bsky.social takes us through the start of Erin Patterson's trial, as the case unfolds in a small, unassuming court room in Aust. Patterson has pleaded not guilty. #FullStory @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Exclusive - Liberal candidate Zahid Safi’s NDIS business Willow Support Services is being investigated by the NDIS Commission. Full story: www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

Yet another quite remarkable chapter in the handling of police informers in Victoria over the past two decades www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

An uncomfortable truth: police already know about many offenders who murder women - by @ninobucci.bsky.social @jordynbeazley.bsky.social and @bensmee.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr...

Ella Archibald-Binge travelled to the Tiwi Islands with the AEC yesterday for the first of 1.5 days of voting in the remote community. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

There are a lot of deeply unsettling things going on in the US right now, but this could well be the worst: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Slightly disappointed my suggestion of dubbing him Chesse Hogan wasn’t acted on, but a great yarn nonetheless www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...

Please take the time to read this piece. The mother who gave so much of her time to make it possible deserves it. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Overlooked in this whole Port v Hawks rivalry stuff is that Hinkley’s “you’re not flying anywhere Jack” taunt was particularly stupid because Ginnivan was flying back to Melbourne that night

BIZARRE scene in OKC. Luka seems to have been yelling at a fan. The ref thought it was directed toward him... and the ref ejects him!

Exclusive: Australian taxpayers paid nearly $3m for government ads on X in the first year after Musk took over, despite warnings about brand reputational damage. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

They really are going to have to start eating the pets if this keeps up www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Horrific Islamophobic attack on two hijab-wearing mums from Gaza and their children in Woodridge, QLD. Bystanders thankfully intervened when a bus driver wouldn't. No arrests yet. No press conferences from politicians on the campaign trail about escalating Islamophobia. Jim Chalmers' electorate.

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...