Kate Lyons

5 days ago | theguardian.com | Kate Lyons |Krishani Dhanji

Until last week’s federal election, Daria Taplin-Buck had always voted Liberal. The 31-year-old, who moved from Russia to Australia as a teenager, had been a dues-paying member of the Young Liberals for years. During the 2019 election campaign, she could be found door-knocking in Adelaide, and outside a polling booth handing out how-to-vote cards for the Liberal party. But this time around, she cast her ballot for Labor. “What were they offering?” she says of the Liberals.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Kate Lyons

Four kilometres into his 242nd parkrun and Richard Scolyer is full of enthusiasm. “This is great, Kate!” he calls to his wife, Katie Nicoll, behind him.“Thirty-five minutes and we’ve got 1km to go.”Scolyer, 58, is setting the pace for the couple and a stream of friends who join him for stretches of the 5km run along Hawthorn canal, in Sydney’s inner west, on a fresh Easter Saturday morning. They jog for 500m, and then, after a beep from Scolyer’s watch, walk for 500m.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Kate Lyons

The fraud began when Ray Baird, then 65, asked his son Peter for help dealing with the bank. In the years that followed, Peter gained access to his dad’s bank accounts, diverted Ray’s aged pension to his own bank account and ran up debts in his father’s name that led to two caveats being put on Ray’s home.

1 month ago | msn.com | Kate Lyons

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1 month ago | theguardian.com | Kate Lyons

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePeter Dutton has come out swinging against the government’s battery announcement.