Tory Shepherd

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Tory Shepherd

Toby Bamford operates his bakery in a different time zone to those less than 1km away. On Sunday he plans to celebrate joining his Queensland neighbours. For almost 20 million Australians, the end of daylight saving means an extra hour’s sleep. Daylight saving time ends on Sunday at 3am, when clocks move back one hour in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, the Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Tory Shepherd

There’s a roo carcass on the side of the road, near the turnoff to one of Kangaroo Island’s many excellent cellar doors. Black ravens lift sullenly from their feast as cars speed past. Some think this sort of roadkill is how Valerie, the miniature dachshund that has been missing for more than 500 days, has survived since running away from her owners. It’s hard to picture the 4kg, adorable, goofy-eared, big-eyed sausage dog choosing this particular meal, but that’s a prevailing theory.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Tory Shepherd

“I didn’t know what polyamory was,” Melissa* says. “I didn’t have the vocabulary. I Googled it a few times to understand.” Melissa was on the “relationship escalator”. She got married, had a child, then the no longer happy couple split. So she started exploring her options. First stop? Singles’ groups. “Then I went down the rabbit hole of adult groups, sex groups,” the now 40-year-old says.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Tory Shepherd

For the first time in living memory Australia is going into an election campaign facing not just an outside chance, but a strong probability, of a hung parliament. A mid-February YouGov poll with an impressive sample size put the likelihood that neither party would reach the magic figure of 76 seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives at 78%. Before the 2022 election the Coalition held up the spectre of “instability and chaos” if no party was returned with a majority.

4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Reged Ahmad |Tory Shepherd |Allison Chan |Camilla Hannan |Daniel Semo |Miles Herbert

Big pharma is eyeing Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, as they lobby Donald Trump to demand higher prices for their medicines. Anthony Albanese has promised to bring down the price of PBS-listed medicines to no more than $25 a script, while the Coalition has already pledged to match it if they return to government. Senior reporter Tory Shepherd speaks to Reged Ahmad about the politics of our affordable medicines You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport