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Coalition happy to have quotas for Nationals on frontbench but not for female Liberal MPs, Tanya Plibersek says

Federal politics
Coalition happy to have quotas for Nationals on frontbench but not for female Liberal MPs, Tanya Plibersek says

Labor frontbencher rubbishes Angus Taylor’s assertion that gender quotas ‘subvert democratic processes’

Australia news live
Burke says Labor hamstrung by ‘legal thresholds’ set by high court over preventative detention of asylum seekers

Exclusive
‘Real people, real families’: Coalition signals dramatic shift away from Dutton era immigration rhetoric

Infrastructure
Could the M6 be Sydney’s unbuildable motorway due to sinkholes and a reverse fault?

US politics
Elon Musk calls Trump’s big bill ‘utterly insane and destructive’ as Senate debates

In focus

Notes from a nursing home: ‘We don’t speak of sadness here’

Aged care
Notes from a nursing home: ‘We don’t speak of sadness here’

The nursing home becomes a vault, sealing away what disrupts the orderly march of life, writes aged care resident Andrew McKean. Yet there’s life here too

The rural network
As cage eggs are phased out around the world, how can producers lower the risks of free-range ‘hen heaven’?

Stolen Generations
Harvey Coyne is facing triple-heart bypass surgery. His social housing provider wants to evict him

Club World Cup
Nkunku extra-time goal sees Chelsea through to last eight after four-hour match

Nkunku extra-time goal sees Chelsea through to last eight after four-hour match

Formula One
Norris storms to Austrian F1 GP pole as angry Verstappen slumps to seventh

Rugby union
Lions cut loose with eight-try win over Western Force for solid start in Australia

Music
‘We just want to stop people being murdered’: Kneecap on Palestine, protest and provocation

‘We just want to stop people being murdered’: Kneecap on Palestine, protest and provocation

Books
Our New Gods by Thomas Vowles review – debut queer thriller dares to wade into the muck of modern desire

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Australia’s had two more years of gambling ad harm since the Murphy report. It’s time for Labor to show some courage

Zoe Daniel

The moment I knew
The moment I knew: I declined his proposal, then something clicked

The moment I knew: I declined his proposal, then something clicked

Australian food and drink
When life gives you cumquats or kumquats make a marmalade and mezcal cocktail – recipe

Crypto
Online hacks to offline heists: crypto leaders on edge amid increasing attacks

Online hacks to offline heists: crypto leaders on edge amid increasing attacks

Asteroids
Are we doing enough to save Earth from a devastating asteroid strike?

Are we doing enough to save Earth from a devastating asteroid strike?

Tasmania
Poop art: animal dung painting competition seeks to break taboo of talking about poo

Poop art: animal dung painting competition seeks to break taboo of talking about poo