Matilda Boseley

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Matilda Boseley |Michael Kalenderian

The 2025 Australian federal election will be held on Saturday 3 May. But wait … what does that actually mean? Haven’t we known about the election for months? Why did the prime minister visit the governor general's house? What is this parliamentary 'caretaker mode' everyone keeps going on about?

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Shelley Hepworth |Sanjana Jose |Matilda Boseley

A deficit, a Medicare boost and power bill relief were all things expected in Tuesday night's budget. But what else was in there, and what does Jim Chalmers' 2025 budget mean for Australians? Guardian Australia's Matilda Boseley explains this year's winners, losers and surprises• Coalition will not support Labor’s budget tax cuts, Angus Taylor says• What the budget means for your generation – gen Z, millennial, gen X or boomer

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Matilda Boseley |Jack Snape |Karishma Luthria |Miles Herbert |Hannah Parkes

One weekend every year, Formula One takes over Melbourne. And while F1 is riding high in Australia with a massive new audience of young people – especially women – flooding the stands, critics point to a host of issues surrounding the sport, including the environmental cost. Matilda Boseley talks to sport reporter Jack Snape on what’s behind the new golden age of motorsport and if an Australian could win the F1 Championship this year

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Matilda Boseley

I’m extremely invested in this year’s best actress race. Not the one that will be on TV with Demi Moore and Cynthia Erivo. I care about the fake Oscars, where the fake industry icon Paloma Dimond might finally take home the fake trophy after being fake-snubbed for the fake award a whopping 19 times. Let me explain. In 2023 a TikTok comedian, Julian Sewell, posted a 90-second skit, faithfully recreating the Academy’s best actress segment from his living room.

Dec 22, 2024 | theguardian.com | Matilda Boseley

“Brain rot” has been named Oxford’s word of the year, meaning “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging”. But no matter how “trivial” or “unchallenging” the content may be, there’s still a lot to be learned about our culture through the trends, memes and storylines that dominated our social media feeds this year.