“The media’s addiction to the money from gambling advertising shouldn't be used as an excuse to exacerbate the human misery caused by actual addiction to gambling,” says Guardian Australia’s editor Lenore Taylor. https://www.theguardian.com/p/xv9928?CMP=soc_567
In the latest episode from our daily news podcast, Lenore Taylor speaks about the crisis in the media, and why we should be looking for answers outside the gambling industry. Listen to the newsroom edition of the Full Story podcast: https://www.theguardian.com/p/xv9928?CMP=soc_567
Read Lenore Taylor's announcement from June 2023: Australians say they hate gambling ads. From now they will no longer see them on Guardian Australia https://www.theguardian.com/p/z7vhy?CMP=soc_567
📽️ WATCH: Independent MP Zali Steggall has accused the Coalition of whipping up fear and told the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, to “stop being racist”, amid fierce debate in parliament over the granting of visas to Palestinians fleeing the conflict in Gaza. https://www.theguardian.com/p/xv97en?CMP=soc_567
The opposition leader kicked off parliament on Thursday accusing the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, of misleading the House on the process of granting visas to those in Gaza.
It came a day after Dutton escalated the opposition’s rhetoric against Palestinians fleeing Gaza, claiming that none should be allowed to Australia “at the moment” due to an unspecified “national security risk”, comments that contradicted the assessment of the Asio spy chief.
Read the full story: https://www.theguardian.com/p/xv97en?CMP=soc_567
#zalisteggal #dutton #peterdutton #Gaza #auspol #australia
UK police clash with far right protesters while hundreds mourn for Southport stabbing victims – video report
Rioters after the Southport stabbing attack will face the “full force of the law”, the UK prime minister has said. https://www.theguardian.com/p/xv6bq8?CMP=soc_567
It came after far-right protesters pelted police with glass bottles and bricks and attacked a mosque near to where a knife attack that killed three children took place. Misinformation spreading online about the attacker's identity has fuelled growing tensions. Protesters could be seen attacking police officers and shouting 'Tommy Robinson'.
• Southport police brace for more violence from far-right ‘hooligans’ https://www.theguardian.com/p/xv6gdq?CMP=soc_567
Less than a mile away, hundreds of people had gathered earlier to pay tribute to the three children who were killed in the attack. The police have said others are being treated in hospital. PM Keir Starmer said the rioters had “hijacked the vigil for the victims with violence and thuggery” and “insulted the community as it grieves”.
• Southport: ripped apart by loss, and then the far right https://www.theguardian.com/p/xv6fp4?CMP=soc_567
• 'Furious': Southport residents clean up after night of far-right riot – video https://www.theguardian.com/p/xv6ff7?CMP=soc_567
Thirty-nine police officers sustained injuries, with 27 of them taken to hospital. Merseyside police said eight officers suffered serious injuries including fractures, lacerations, a suspected broken nose and a concussion. Other officers suffered head injuries and serious facial injuries, and one was knocked unconscious.
• Five arrested after 53 police officers injured in Southport riots: https://www.theguardian.com/p/xv6fgq?CMP=soc_567
This came after misinformation about the Southport knife attack suspect spread on social media as far-right activists and conspiracy theorists shared content.
• How false online claims about Southport knife attack spread so rapidly https://www.theguardian.com/p/xv6f5p?CMP=soc_567
The only details released about the sus
Rioters after the Southport stabbing attack will face the “full force of the law”, the UK prime minister has said.
It came after far-right protesters pelted police with glass bottles and bricks and attacked a mosque following a knife attack that killed three children.
• Southport police brace for more violence from far-right ‘hooligans’ https://www.theguardian.com/p/xv6gdq?CMP=soc_567&CMP=aus_fbreels
The PM said the rioters had “hijacked the vigil for the victims with violence and thuggery” and “insulted the community as it grieves”.
• Southport: ripped apart by loss, and then the far right https://www.theguardian.com/p/xv6fp4?CMP=soc_567&CMP=aus_fbreels
• 'Furious': Southport residents clean up after night of far-right riot – video https://www.theguardian.com/p/xv6ff7?CMP=soc_567&CMP=aus_fbreels
Thirty-nine police officers sustained injuries, with 27 of them taken to hospital. Merseyside police said eight officers suffered serious injuries including fractures, lacerations, a suspected broken nose and a concussion. Other officers suffered head injuries and serious facial injuries, and one was knocked unconscious.
• Five arrested after 53 police officers injured in Southport riots: https://www.theguardian.com/p/xv6fgq?CMP=soc_567&CMP=aus_fbreels
This came after misinformation about the Southport knife attack suspect spread on social media as far-right activists and conspiracy theorists shared content.
• How false online claims about Southport knife attack spread so rapidly https://www.theguardian.com/p/xv6f5p?CMP=soc_567&CMP=aus_fbreels
The only details released about the suspect by police are that he is a 17-year-old from the village of Banks in Lancashire, who was born in the UK.
• Boy, 17, charged with murder and attempted murder https://www.theguardian.com/p/xv69vn?CMP=soc_567&CMP=aus_fbreels
The UK’s home secretary urged the public to avoid “unhelpful” speculation about the attack, saying social media companie
The skies above southern Australia and NZ glowed in technicolour on Tuesday night as the aurora australis was on full display. Sean Day, a photographer based in NZ, captured this beautiful time-lapse of the aurora australis over the South Island. Watch the longer video and see more photos: https://www.theguardian.com/p/xv6cme?CMP=soc_567
Video credit: Sean Day | Instagram: @star.boy.photos
Southern lights: time-lapse shows the aurora australis over New Zealand
The skies above southern Australia and New Zealand glowed in technicolour on Tuesday night as the aurora australis was on full display. https://www.theguardian.com/p/xv6cme?CMP=soc_567
Sean Day, a photographer based in New Zealand, captured this beautiful time-lapse of the aurora australis over New Zealand's South Island on Tuesday night. The southern lights were also seen over southern parts of Australia, including in parts of Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia.
🎥 Video credit: Sean Day | Instagram: @star.boy.photos
Watch the longer video: https://www.theguardian.com/p/xv6cme?CMP=soc_567
#aurora #auroraaustralis #southernlights
“There is no more life,” said witness Rushdi Kodeih after an Israeli airstrike on the entrance of a school-turned-shelter in southern Gaza killed at least 31 people.
The airstrike on Tuesday afternoon hit the tents of displaced families outside a school in the town of Abassan, east of Khan Younis. Officials at the nearby Nasser hospital said on Wednesday that 31 people had been killed, including eight children, and more than 50 wounded.
Footage broadcast by Al Jazeera showed people playing football in the school’s yard when a sudden boom shook the area, prompting shouts of “a strike, a strike!”
The Israeli military said it was reviewing reports that civilians were harmed. It said the incident occurred when it struck with “precise munition” a Hamas fighter who took part in the 7 October raid on Israel that precipitated the Israeli assault on Gaza.
The area was crowded at the time of the attack. Watch this video to hear three eyewitness accounts.
For more tap the link in bio for our full report.
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel
What is Australia’s contribution to the climate emergency, and how successfully is it acting to address it? See our regularly updated, comprehensive dashboard of charts: https://www.theguardian.com/p/m9njz?CMP=soc_567
Includes the CARBON CLOCK™. One way to measure progress on climate is by using a carbon budget, which calculates a “fair share” of total emissions for a country to avoid 1.5C or 2C of warming.
Australia's carbon countdown clock has less than five years until it runs out. Share it now. https://www.theguardian.com/p/m9njz?CMP=soc_567
#climatecrisis #ClimateAction #carbonclock #climatechange #ClimateEmergency
How did Australia's housing market get so bad, and is it all negative gearing's fault?
There’s a lot of debate about why and how Australia’s housing market became the garbage fire it is today, with many accusations being hurled at one particular suspect: negative gearing. But while negative gearing is certainly a factor, it doesn't deserve all the blame.
How do you celebrate after winning an award for being a global icon? Drink from a shoe, if you're Kylie at the Brits. Guardian Australia explores other occasions when celebrities did a shoey.
#shoey #kylieminogue #harrystyles #GordonRamsay
Losing 24 family members to genocide
Yoweri Gatarayiha was one of the only members of his family to survive the 1994 Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsi minority.
Watch the Four Corners and Guardian Australia documentary ‘The Wanted’ now: https://ab.co/3wyqdi8
Prime minister Anthony Albanese has used a late night press conference to blast the Coalition again for not full-throatedly backing Labor’s tax cut changes, claiming the opposition would “never stand up for low and middle income earners”.
Labor’s revamped stage three tax cuts passed through the Senate overnight, and will come into effect from 1 July for all taxpayers. They will see a greater benefit flow to those on lower and middle incomes than the Coalition-legislated original plan would have.
Just days out from the crucial Dunkley by-election, the government has painted the changes as cost of living relief, a point Albanese was keen to hammer home at a press conference called for 8.30pm last night.
It was a time he conceded was “unusual”, after most journalists in Parliament House had gone home for the evening, long past the 6pm TV news bulletins and newspaper print deadlines had passed.
To a room of only four journalists gathered to ask questions (including your correspondent), Albanese praised the passage of his government’s tax plan. He claimed there was a “great divide in Australian politics” between the government and opposition, alleging “Peter Dutton wants people to work longer for less”.
I was buried alive
Frida was 14 when she was nearly killed in the Rwandan genocide. She is the only surviving member of her family.
Watch the Four Corners and Guardian Australia documentary ‘The Wanted’ now: ab.co/48ALTHE
“The Palestinian people only demand respect for their rights. They ask for nothing more. They cannot accept nothing less and nothing else.”
This is what Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the UN, said at the opening of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearings on Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories. Mansour held back tears as he appealed to the ICJ judges to help secure a two-state solution “in which the two states live side by side in peace and security”.
Israeli leaders have long disputed that the territories – the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem – are formally occupied on the basis that they were captured from Jordan and Egypt during a 1967 war rather than from a sovereign Palestine.
More than 50 states will present arguments before the ICJ in The Hague until 26 February, after a 2022 request from the UN general assembly for an advisory, or non-binding, opinion on the occupation.
The judges are expected to take several months to deliberate before issuing their opinion.
For a more in-depth look at these hearings - and all our latest live coverage - tap the link in bio.
How asbestos-contaminated mulch sparked the NSW EPA's biggest investigation
Mulch contaminated with asbestos has been found in more than 20 different places in and around Sydney. More than 50 parks and garden beds across inner Sydney are also urgently being tested, as well as a number of schools across the city. The government has set up an asbestos taskforce to tackle the growing crisis and more than 130 EPA investigators are now on the case. The big questions are: where did the asbestos come from, and who is responsible? Guardian Australia's Tamsin Rose explains where things are at, and how we got here.
The Indonesian defence minister, Prabowo Subianto, a former general dogged by allegations of human rights abuses, has promised to be a leader for all Indonesians after unofficial figures showed he was on course to win the country’s presidential race.
More than 200 million people were eligible to vote on Wednesday in the world’s largest single-day election, a race to decide who should succeed the popular outgoing president, Joko Widodo, known as Jokowi, as well as future executive and legislative representatives at all administrative levels across the country.
Addressing supporters in the evening, Prabowo said: “This win shall be a win for Indonesian people,” as he promised to govern for everyone “whatever the ethnicity, whatever the province, whatever the religion, whatever their social background”. Prabowo added that there was a need to wait for an official result from election authorities.
Indonesia's 2024 election: the candidates and controversies
Today, one of the world's biggest elections is taking place. About 205 million people will be eligible to vote in Indonesia, with more than half of those eligible to vote are aged between 17 and 40, and about one-third are under 30, making the youth demographic key to the outcome.
Meet the three presidential candidates – Prabowo Subianto, Anies Baswedan and Ganjar Pranowo – vying to become the next leader of the world's third-largest democracy.
