| | | 22/01/2024 Fresh warning over Antarctic melt; gas move before new cost-of living relief; De Minaur out of Open |
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| | | Good morning. Australia is not prepared for how Antarctic ice changes could pummel the country’s economy, a leading Antarctic scientist is warning. Prof Matt King says he finds it embarrassing how little is known about the local and global ramifications of the accelerated melting – which he says could transform the country and affect the viability of some agricultural industries. Meanwhile, a new deal guarantees gas supply for Australia’s south-east coast as the government put the finishing touches to new cost-of-living relief, the death toll in Gaza passes 25,000, and Alex de Minaur is out of the Australian Open after losing a four-hour epic. |
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| Full Story | | Can the Australian economy pull of a miracle in 2024? Last year was a horror one for household budgets as Australians struggled against rising interest rates, soaring rents and cost-of-living pressures. Will things get better or worse in 2024? Guardian Australia’s economics correspondent Peter Hannam tells Jane Lee about the certainties and uncertainties that lie ahead. | |
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| In-depth | | Here is the horrifying story of an Alabama man who is one of two Americans to survive a prison execution. This week the state will make another attempt to kill Kennedy Smith, using an untested gas method, after the torment of his failed lethal injection in 2022. “I am not ready for that,” Smith, who has PTSD from the four-hour ordeal of his first execution, told the Guardian. “Not in no kind of way. I’m just not ready, brother.” |
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| Not the news | | A spectacular brass guard that would have protected the sword arm of a high-ranking Roman soldier some 1,800 years ago has been reconstructed from more than 100 fragments found at Trimontium, the Roman fort complex in Scotland. Made in the second century – with brass strips overlapping like an armadillo’s scales – it is one of only three known from the whole Roman empire, and the most intact. |
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| What’s happening today | Heat warnings | We’ll have the latest on the effects of Australia’s scorching temperatures this week. | Fair work | A Senate inquiry into fair work legislation will hold a hearing in Canberra. |
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| Brain teaser | And finally, here are the Guardian’s crosswords to keep you entertained throughout the day – with plenty more on the Guardian’s Puzzles app for iOS and Android. Until tomorrow. | |
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