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Six people are dead after a suspected mass methanol poisoning in a Laos backpacker party town. What went wrong?

Laos
Six people are dead after a suspected mass methanol poisoning in a Laos backpacker party town. What went wrong?

As authorities detain a hostel owner in Vang Vieng, expert says the recent deaths are just the ‘tip of the iceberg’

Books
Furore sparked by Jamie Oliver children’s book cultural appropriation opens wider debate

Antarctica
Emperor penguin that travelled 3,000km to West Australian beach begins long journey home

Hasty decisions and backroom deals betray Labor’s dire need for a decent story

Karen Middleton

New South Wales
Man linked to organised crime gunned down in ‘targeted attack’ near Sydney’s CBD

Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel expresses ‘huge concern’ at Elon Musk’s US government role

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The rural network

Burnayi Lurnayi: Bendigo development aims to provide safe homes for Aboriginal women

Housing
Burnayi Lurnayi: Bendigo development aims to provide safe homes for Aboriginal women

Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation says the development will help Indigenous women stay in the increasingly unaffordable regional city

Full Story podcast

Full Story
Newsroom edition: Labor and the Coalition’s election playbook takes shape – Full Story podcast

Newsroom edition: Labor and the Coalition’s election playbook takes shape – Full Story podcast

Cricket
Festival of fast bowling leaves India on top after Australia collapse

Festival of fast bowling leaves India on top after Australia collapse

Rugby union
Australia look for Harry Potter magic as Suaalii returns against Scotland

Rugby union
Jones will be at Twickenham ‘with bells on’ despite illness

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Music
Troye Sivan review – Melbourne ‘home cumming’ is unabashedly horny, but over too soon

Troye Sivan review – Melbourne ‘home cumming’ is unabashedly horny, but over too soon

Books
Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – what should a novel look like?

Books
‘I fly, I drive. We’re all complicit’: Richard Flanagan on vanishing species and refusing the Baillie Gifford prize money

Think you’ve got what it takes to be a tech bro?

Fiona Katauskas

Think you’ve got what it takes to be a tech bro?

Holding a grudge – is it a petty character flaw or a desire for justice in an unjust world?

First Dog on the Moon

The fierce reaction to Australia’s new Future Fund mandate is a throwback to a bygone era