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Election 2025 live
Dutton backs Labor’s response to Trump tariffs; PM queries 29% rate for tiny island

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Health
Study finds strongest evidence yet that shingles vaccine helps cut dementia risk

US politics
Trump announces sweeping new tariffs, upending decades of US trade policy

Explainer
What Australians flying to the US need to know about phone and device searches at the border

Exclusive
Rednote used to spread false claims about ‘wicked’ policy on Chinese Australians and citizenship

Federal election

Election Reality Check
Peter Dutton blames Labor for 29,000 businesses going bust since 2022. If only it were so simple

Insolvency rate not dissimilar to what it was under pre-pandemic Coalition government, according to Guardian Australia analysis

Coalition
In the event of a hung parliament, one wildcard has been largely overlooked – the Nationals

Grogonomics

You never know what you’re gonna get: Australians will have to wait until after the election to see if there’s an interest rate cut

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The rural network

Climate crisis
Towns cut off and hundreds of thousands of cattle die as vast Queensland floods sweep towards Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre

As flood water flows past towns and cattle and sheep stations – normally isolated by desert – many now sit as islands amid a muddy sea

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Sport

Football
Postecoglou: ‘outstanding' candidates await if Spurs sack him

Tennis
‘Stressful’ debut as Kasatkina appears as Australian for first time

Cycling
After devastating BMX injury, Kai Sakakibara makes winning return as para cyclist

Culture

Film
Val Kilmer, star of Top Gun, Batman Forever and The Doors, dies aged 65

Exclusive
Khaled Sabsabi says Creative Australia decision was ‘kneejerk’ reaction that is ‘dismantling’ his career

Stage
‘Somehow, they managed to survive’: Weimar cabaret star Bernie Dieter on her family’s extraordinary past