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Australia news live update: nation records at least 74 Covid deaths; Invasion Day rallies begin; lockdown call for NT remote communities
Live / Australia news live update: nation records at least 74 Covid deaths; Invasion Day rallies begin; lockdown call for NT remote communities
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New Zealand / New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern shrugs off car chase by anti-vaccination protesters
Dylan Alcott / Australian of the Year calls for people with disability to be given free rapid antigen tests
Australia Day / Guardian Essential poll reveals growing support for changing the date
Scott Morrison WeChat / New owner amazed account entrusted to ‘single person’ in China
'Like liquid gold' / Aged care provider has ‘no faith’ in federal promise of rapid tests
News extra
If Australia’s inland rail is a game changer, why are we shortchanging it?
If Australia’s inland rail is a game changer, why are we shortchanging it?
Cameron Simpkins
A freight railway between Melbourne and Brisbane is planned to provide a 200-year service. We owe it to future generations to build this properly
Coronavirus
Covid: Pfizer launches Omicron vaccine trial; UK reports highest daily deaths since February
Live / Covid: Pfizer launches Omicron vaccine trial; UK reports highest daily deaths since February
Company hopes vaccine will be ready for approval by March; UK reports 439 deaths and more than nearly 95,000 cases
The rural network
The battle for the hottest dates on Australia’s country calendar
Elvis v Tamworth / The battle for the hottest dates on Australia’s country calendar
Parkes Elvis celebrations all shook up as country music festival steps on its blue suede shoes in Covid-induced clash
Full Story podcast
Full Story / Invasion Day: how to ‘pay the rent’
Invasion Day: how to ‘pay the rent’
Sport
Australian Open / Barty underlines favourite status by trouncing Pegula
Barty underlines favourite status by trouncing Pegula
Australian Open / Kyrgios and Kokkinakis revel in another wild double act
‘Why did people have to die?’ / Cameroon mourns after stadium tragedy
The Final Word podcast
Join Emma John, Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins for a sharp and light-hearted take on each day of play during the 2021-22 Ashes series.
Culture
'Exactly the tonic we need right now’ / The Great Australian Bake Off returns
The Great Australian Bake Off returns
Architecture / World’s best building award won by rainwater-harvesting hospital in rural Bangladesh
Three things with Claudia Karvan / He painted a spontaneous nude of me on a baker’s tray
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Opinion
A prime minister who lives by the photo op dies by the photo op – and Grace Tame owes Scott Morrison nothing
Van Badham
A prime minister who lives by the photo op dies by the photo op – and Grace Tame owes Scott Morrison nothing
Each year the Invasion Day cry gets louder. Each year we add names to the list of our dead
Chelsea Watego
Tennis Australia’s flip-flop over ‘Where is Peng Shuai?’ T-shirts shows it needs a human rights policy
Nikki Dryden
Lifestyle
Hedonism is overrated – to make the best of life there must be pain, says this Yale professor
Hedonism is overrated – to make the best of life there must be pain, says this Yale professor
Can a sick note make you better? / Dr Gavin Francis on the power of convalescence
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Technology
Meta / Mark Zuckerberg says company is building the world’s fastest AI supercomputer
Mark Zuckerberg says company is building the world’s fastest AI supercomputer
Science
Space / James Webb space telescope takes up station a million miles from Earth
James Webb space telescope takes up station a million miles from Earth
Environment
Oil and gas companies / ‘Helps peddle myths’: Australia’s Tour Down Under facing pressure to dump Santos as sponsor
‘Helps peddle myths’: Australia’s Tour Down Under facing pressure to dump Santos as sponsor
The rural network / Australia’s inland rail: a long-held dream, but for whom and at what cost?
Video
'It was dynamite': Aboriginal Tent Embassy co-founder Michael Anderson reflects on legacy – video
'It was dynamite': Aboriginal Tent Embassy co-founder Michael Anderson reflects on legacy – video
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