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  • Explainer
    Is the government really ‘out-of-control’ spending?

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  • The Sunday read
    Are the US midterms going to see a blue wave?

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  • Improve your memory
    Expert tips – from reading a book to getting more sleep

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  • Melbourne street art depicting the former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern.

    Sydney
    Jacinda Ardern in Opera House talk advises politicians to ‘rebuild trust by building financial security’

    Former New Zealand prime minister has moved to Australia and is lecturing at University of Sydney – and from stage of city’s famous landmark

  • Northern Territory
    ‘I’m sweating … can I get some tissues on stage?’ Behind the scenes at Darwin’s international laksa festival

    After secret visits and a live blind tasting, judges unanimously crown Cambodian cafe in light industrial area as home of Darwin’s best laksa
  • A man walks near security personnel ahead of a ‘Save Democracy’ march towards Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi, India, on Sunda

    India
    Indian forces tighten security in Delhi ahead of big opposition protest

  • Australia's Alex de Minaur celebrates his upset semi-final win over Germany's Alexander Zverev in Vienna

    Tennis
    ‘Super proud’ De Minaur takes down new world No 1 Zverev to reach Vienna Open final

In focus

  • Flames engulf the Eagle's Nest mountain lodge at night, with fog filling the valley below.

    Germany
    Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest retreat was torched in an arson attack. Should it be rebuilt?

    With the far right resurgent in Germany, experts are divided as to whether the dictator’s former mountaintop retreat is better restored or left a ruin
  • A boy lies in a hospital bed as his parents stand alongside, the boy's father resting his hand on the boy's head

    Israel-Gaza war
    ‘What’s our crime?’: A Palestinian family’s fight to get care for son injured by Hamas rocket

  • Treasurer Jim Chalmers during question time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, on 28 October 28

    Explainer
    Is the government really on an ‘out-of-control’ spending splurge? It’s complicated

  • Manchester United manager Michael Carrick looks on during his team’s 2-0 defeat at Chelsea.

    Live
    Carrick to stay in charge for Roma game; Challinor in at Sheffield Wednesday; Liverpool v Arsenal buildup – matchday live

  • Brighton's Yasin Ayari slides on his knees after scoring the only goal of the game at the Etihad Stadium

    Premier League
    Ayari on target as Brighton stun Manchester City to close gap on leaders

  • Zion Suzuki carries the ball over his own line to hand Fulham their equalising goal

    Premier League
    Suzuki horror own goal haunts Aston Villa to hand Fulham a point

  • Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes looks dejected as the players applaud the fans after their defeat at Stamford Bridge

    Analysis
    Manchester United’s capitulation at Chelsea paints picture of a club that barely exists

    Barney Ronay

Features

  • Illustration of pink circles, turning red towards the centre, where a boy sits looking towards a crowd of people coming from the left

    Autism
    ‘The term is becoming unrecognisable’: have the experts who believed in a single autism spectrum changed their minds?

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    Christina Applegate’s multiple sclerosis misdiagnosis is not an isolated event. I should know

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    The experts
    How to improve your memory: 10 easy, enjoyable expert tips – from reading a book to getting more sleep

  • Recyclers sort through bags of rubbish on a street corner beside old buildings with a skyscraper in the background

    South Africa
    Piles of rubbish, power cuts and potholes: anger grows over Johannesburg’s run-down infrastructure

  • ‘Do not enter’ message at the airport

    Racists used to say ‘Go back where you come from’. Now they exclaim ‘Deport!’

    Ghassan Hage
    ‘Deport!’ oozes an entirely different sense of power – one where the racist imagines they can call upon the state to act on their behalf
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Hear me out: maybe Norway should give Melania Trump the Nobel peace prize

    Arwa Mahdawi
    The first lady has been praised for ‘singlehandedly’ brokering a ceasefire in a Ukrainian city – though she might have had some help

More opinion

  • Imogen West-Knights

    I’m sick of smug celebrities on the podcast circuit. No wonder there’s a fuss when someone speaks the truth

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  • Polly Hudson

    What kind of prepper are you?

    Polly Hudson
  • Carly Dober

    Relying on AI is rotting your brain. But here’s what you can do about it

    Carly Dober
  • Tom McIlroy

    Labor is losing control of the economic narrative as cash-strapped households look for someone to blame

    Tom McIlroy

Cartoon

  • A cartoon of a woman in exercise clothes kneeling in front of a laptop with a woman on the screen lifting weights.

    Edith Pritchett on millennial life
    Exercising my free will … the Edith Pritchett cartoon

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More sport

  • Joanna Wietrzyk races in a Hyrox competition in Beijing

    Fitness
    Hyrox athlete who soiled herself puts ‘confronting’ matter behind her to win return race

  • Enzo Maresca holds his chin

    Premier League
    Enzo Maresca rues ‘silly’ errors after Manchester City defeat against Brighton

  • Adil Rashid, bearded and in blue England kit, in the field with a ball

    England cricket team
    Rashid’s exile cost England but they can right tactical wrongs in Australia

  • Alexis Mac Allister applauds

    Football
    No big deal: how Mac Allister shook off contract doubts to fire Liverpool’s revival

  • A Rubik's cube with faces showing an explosion and American flags appears twisted apart, surrounded by smoke

    Trump administration
    As Trump fans the flames of a world on fire, can diplomacy take back control?

  • Collage of Elon Musk wearing a red MAGA hat, surrounded by dollar bills and a descending red chart line

    Elon Musk
    The staggering $446m Elon Musk has spent on the US midterms – visualised

  • Donald Trump waves around a small arch.

    Washington DC
    Virginia and DC sue to stop Trump’s arch as government looks to start construction

  • man in a grey suit sits at a courtroom table beside a police officer

    Courts
    Luigi Mangione’s lawyers file to dismiss state charges, citing double jeopardy law

More news

  • Ran Stanton and H Morgan-Harris stand with a dog at a cluttered studio garage entrance

    Sydney
    Disquiet grows in Albanese’s back yard as Grayndler artists unite against ‘insane’ AI proposal

    Inner west Sydney seat has long been safely held by the PM – but potential changes to copyright laws are angering its large creative community
  • emissions rise from a power plant

    Coal
    Trump boosted half of US coal plants with taxpayer dollars and ‘free passes to pollute’, report says

  • A baby orangutan is held in the arms of a rescuer with parched forest in the background.

    The age of extinction
    ‘Bunch of baloney’: calls grow for Cop summit reforms as countries on track to fail nature targets

  • Misty Ardingly reservoir shoreline with stacked sandbags and exposed muddy ground at low water

    Drought
    ‘You can see the water going down’: residents on edge as one of England’s worst-hit reservoirs dries up

  • ARMENIA-UN-COP 17-BIODIVERSITY-ENVIRONMENTParticipants stage a protest during the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), in the Armenian capital of Yerevan on October 28, 2026. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

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  • Aidan Turner sits on a patterned rug in a purple blazer, salmon shirt, brown tie with a white pattern, baggy navy trousers and shiny purple brogues, laughing and looking upwards

    Television
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  • Roxanne McDonald, Melodie Reynolds-Diarra, Tyallah Bullock in Before I Forget at Melbourne Theatre Company, Melbourne, October 2026

    Australian theatre
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    Music
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  • A close-up shot of Radie Peat, wearing a black leather jacket, gold chain and gold earrings, with short cropped strawberry blonde hair

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  • A black and white close-up portrait of Kali Malone against coastal rocks

    Experimental music
    Kali Malone: Burning Song review – drone composer wields Bach’s organ to breathtaking effect

What to read

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    Helen Garner
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    Books
    Unseen Harry Houdini writing published on 100th anniversary of his death

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    Books
    What we’re reading: Ian Rankin, Louise Kennedy and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in October

  • Phlippa Gregory.

    Books
    Philippa Gregory: ‘I read 100 of the 18th century’s most popular novels – the perfect author’s apprenticeship’

What to play

  • Andy Taeger, who has curly hair, glasses and a beard, and James Purcell, who has shorter dark hair, pose with the box of The Campaign for North Africa

    Board games
    ‘We’re looking at a 30-year run’: UK pair aim to complete world’s most complex board game

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    After 50 years of playing video games, I’m finally starring in one

    Dominik Diamond
  • A blocky Minecraft character glides with a large orange and white Fortnite-style glider over terrain

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    Social media is full of weird video game mashups. Where are they all coming from?

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  • In The Killing Stone game, a horned demon looms over small figurines on a glowing ritual mat

    Games
    Eight great new indie horror games for Halloween

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    Selma Blair says she is ‘so sorry’ to those she alarmed following alleged air incident

  • Ty Fanning as James and Ami Okumura Jones as Lou in Paranormal Activity.

    Stage
    Jump scares and squeaking moth noises: theatre designers on how they make their shows so scary

  • A young girl in a witch costume

    Photography
    Witches, clowns and a killer durian! Halloween in the Blue Mountains

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    Apartments, community centres and a pink outdoor toilet: Australia’s architecture award winners

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  • An illustration of a cat and a dog either side of a photograph cutout of Tim Dowling, in front of a background of different coloured circles and pen strokes

    Life and style
    Tim Dowling: having a tortoise reminds you that life is long

  • People sit at a bar with screens around them showing a weight-loss jab being performed

    Wellbeing
    Everyone is thin and we’re not allowed to say so: the toxic legacy of body positivity

Food

  • Two bowls of roast apples with toffee sauce, walnuts and soured cream, beside spoons

    Food
    Jackson Boxer’s recipe for roast apples with toffee sauce and soured cream

  • Joseph de Weck

    The hill I will die on
    Dumplings are the ultimate proof of our common humanity

    Joseph de Weck
  • Helen Goh's toffee apple hand pies for bonfire night.

    The sweet spot
    Helen Goh’s miso-toffee apple hand pies – recipe

  • Breaded fried pickle spears fill a tray beside a bowl of spicy orange dipping sauce

    Gherkins galore
    17 delicious ways to enjoy pickles – from frickles to pickletinis

Wellbeing

  • A woman builds a pillow fort with two children on a living room floor

    The Filter
    Puddlesuits, movie nights and daytime baths: how to survive rainy days with small kids

  • V (formerly Eve Ensler)

    We are seeing the rise of psychopatriarchy everywhere

    V (formerly Eve Ensler)
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    Are seed oils unhealthy? Why are so many influencers speaking out against them?

    Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
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    Seascape
    I struggled to come to terms with my mum’s death. Then I swam in the sea and suddenly felt connected to her

Advice

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    A moment that changed me
    I was always a pushover – until I stood up to some teenagers

  • A group of cacti in pots on a sideboard

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  • Two women looking over fence

    Well actually
    Sin or virtue? How envy can actually be helpful

  • Close up detail of a website on a computer screen stating this website uses cookies

    Scams
    Cookie theft: how fraudsters get the digital key to your accounts

Fashion & beauty

  • A boy stands wrapped in toilet paper as he has his photograph taken

    Change by degrees
    Freakish frocks and ghoulish guises: last-minute Halloween costumes that won’t haunt the environment

  • Stuart Heritage

    To baldly go: Patrick Stewart was an icon for bald men everywhere

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    Fashion Statement
    DIY socks, messy collars and cummerbunds: nine wardrobe updates from the catwalks

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    Life and style
    The shocking rise of rib remodelling: ‘I wanted that hourglass shape’

Travel

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    British holidays
    ‘Expect goosebumps!’: to celebrate Halloween, readers choose the spookiest places in the UK

  • Red deer crossing a sand path in the middle of a forest in a wildlife park, the Veluwe, The NetherlandsLargest National Park in the Netherlands.

    Netherlands holidays
    Cycling in the wild heart of the Netherlands: an autumnal break in the Veluwe

Relationships

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    The moment I knew
    He loved to travel, I had a fear of flying. I expected him to skol his beer and wish me well

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    Leading questions
    My sister-in-law is nearly 40 but cannot handle losing at board games. What can I do?

  • An illustration looking down on someone holding up a smartphone surrounded by speech bubbles with microphone icons and sound waves

    You be the judge
    Should my girlfriend stop sending me 10-minute voice notes?

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    G Flip and Chrishell Stause have broken up, and like many in the queer community, I’m in mourning

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