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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Bertin Huynh
After five weeks of campaigning, three live debates and too many oversized props, the 2025 Australian election is finally only days away.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Bertin Huynh
“It’s like the world collapsed,” says Thi Xa Nguyen, looking back 50 years to the fall of Saigon. She was living in the coastal town of Vũng Tàu where the soldiers of the southern Army of the Republic of Vietnam had retreated. A 12-hour walk away in Long Thanh, Nguyen’s mother waited. There was only one way to know if her daughters were alive as their motherland fell – so she started walking. Like the war itself, the date that commemorates its ending has lots of names.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Alyx Gorman |Sanjana Jose |Bertin Huynh |Eelemarni Close-Brown
When Paul Adam sees a long queue forming in front of his patisserie in the northern suburbs of Sydney, “That’s when I know I’m going to start working hard,” he says. In the weeks since one of his cakes went viral across several Chinese social media platforms, that has been nearly every day.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Kalenderian |Bertin Huynh |Natasha May
Experts are concerned Australia could become “fertile ground” for measles to take hold if the disease is brought into the country amid outbreaks in the US as well as India, Vietnam and Indonesia. Guardian Australia’s health reporter Natasha May explains why these outbreaks are of growing concern in Australia• Measles was eliminated from Australia. Experts warn US and Asia outbreaks may bring back this ‘heat-seeking missile’
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Bridie Jabour |Lenore Taylor |Mike Ticher |Karishma Luthria |Daniel Semo |Miles Herbert | +1 more
The unofficial election campaign is about to intensify, with a pre-election budget just days away. With political messaging coming thick and fast, both parties will be trying to sell their vision to the public. But with Australian society becoming increasingly fragmented, will the same campaign strategies cut through? Bridie Jabour talks with editor-in-chief Lenore Taylor and head of newsroom Mike Ticher about what is dividing voters, and how these fractures are shaping our politics
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Ben Doherty |Bertin Huynh |Michael Kalenderian
US president Donald Trump’s global tariffs on steel and aluminium imports have taken effect — and the Australian government’s intense lobbying for an exemption has not been successful. The Guardian's Ben Doherty explains how big of a deal these tariffs are for Australians. • Are Trump’s tariffs the beginning of a global trade war and should Australians be worried? • Donald Trump’s tariffs are disrupting markets around the world – here’s why it could be hurting your super
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Kalenderian |Bertin Huynh |Nick Evershed |Kate Lyons |Yuji Shimada |Andy Ball
The pay gaps at nearly 8,000 employers across Australia were revealed on Tuesday by the government’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency, which found Australian women earned 78c on average for every $1 earned by men, and that across the country, 72.2% of 5,347 employers have a gender pay gap that favours men.
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Bertin Huynh
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Bertin Huynh
For almost my entire life I hated how I looked. I was by no means unhealthy but a youth spent playing video games and eating heaping mounds of white rice meant I was far from the models, superheroes and movie stars I looked up to. One day my doctor said that while I was still within acceptable levels of body fat, I could stand to lose some centimetres around the waist and drop a few kilos. To say the motivation there was solely health-related would be a lie.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Kalenderian |Bertin Huynh |Ben Doherty
When it comes to last week’s live-fire drills conducted by Chinese navy ships, there is fierce disagreement – and intense politicking – on who knew what and when. Australian authorities say they never received notice, and that they first heard of the potentially dangerous activity in the Tasman Sea from the pilot of a commercial flight over the area. China says they issued repeated safety notices in advance.
