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  1. The sex lives of gen Z
    Fewer one night stands, more AI lovers

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  2. Marriage
    What's putting young women off? I have some ideas

    SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 17: Amanda Ruffle and John Martin exchange rings during a ceremony by ShotGin Weddings at Unexpected Guest Distillery in Marrickville on November 17, 2024 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams)

  3. Documentary
    Who really took the infamous Napalm Girl photo?

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  4. Celebrity crib sheet
    Katy Perry has spent all year in the headlines. But why?

    Katy Perry

  5. Full Story
    Maga moms, Trump babies and Erika Kirk: Republicans woo women

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  6. Poll
    Nominate your favourite Australian children’s picture book of all time

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News

  • Virginia Giuffre

    Western Australia
    Virginia Giuffre’s sons deny unsigned document is their mother’s will

  • Pedestrians walk past a row of taxis in Sydney

    Explainer
    Stranded passengers and drivers at breaking point: readers weigh in on short cab trips from Sydney airport

In focus

  • a person holds a sign that reads 'for the Epsteinth time release the files'

    ‘Possibilities are endless’
    As Epstein files release looms, question abound on what happens next

    People implicated in the late sex offender’s crimes might face criminal charges or, at the very least, social ostracism

Features

  • Sarah and Russell

    Blind date
    'I hadn’t been on a date for nearly 15 years and it showed’

  • Bethany Clarke and Simone Whit

    Brain damage, blindness and death
    The global trail of trauma left by methanol-laced alcohol

More features

  • Full Story podcast
    Sussan Ley ‘still up for the job’ of opposition leader

    Podcast25:31
  • A psathyrella mushroom

    ‘Nature’s original engineers’
    Scientists explore the amazing potential of fungi

  • The singer wearing long white gloves and a sleeveless black dress with a high collar, looking at the camera with her arms held at a 45-degree angle away from her body, her hands pointing away from her

    The Q&A
    Self Esteem: ‘How often do I have sex? Oh, often. That is one thing I don’t compromise on’

  • Margaret Atwood photographed at Victoria College, Toronto University.

    ‘If I was American, I’d be worried about my country’
    Margaret Atwood answers questions from Ai Weiwei, Rebecca Solnit and more

  • A banh mi style sandwich on a plate with fried chicken inside

    Food
    KFC’s bánh mì has its name but not its nature. Who is this sandwich for?

  • Katy Perry

    Celebrity crib sheet
    Katy Perry has spent all year in the headlines – here are the six things you need to know

US update

  • Caracas amid rising tensions between the Trump administration and the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas MaduroA view of the city, after U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the airspace above and around Venezuela would be completely closed, amid rising tensions between the Trump administration and the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela, November 29, 2025. REUTERS/Gaby Oraa

    Venezuela
    Donald Trump says airspace above and around country is closed

  • Pete Hegseth.

    Pete Hegseth
    Pete Hegseth denies that he gave orders to ‘kill everybody’ on alleged ‘narco-boat’

Opinion

  • Tom McIlroy

    Barnaby Joyce’s 20 years in parliament have left nothing but a string of scandals, poor policy and bad judgment

    Tom McIlroy
    He was once seen as a Coalition star, but his career in parliament has involved a series of misadventures and bad policies

More opinion

  1. Amanda Meade

    Weekly Beast
    Kerry O’Brien sounds the alarm for Australian media in thunderous Walkleys address

    Amanda Meade
  2. Zoe Williams

    What Chicago’s fight against ICE can teach us all about how to resist oppression

    Zoe Williams
  3. Illustration of Tim Dowling in black and white, holding his hand up looking a bit annoyed, with colourful paint splodges and black and white images of children around him

    The Tim Dowling column
    How did I end up on a helpline for the old and befuddled?

  4. Marina Hyde

    Congratulations, everyone! Keir Starmer survives another week, and it’s only cost us £26bn

    Marina Hyde

Cartoon

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    Fiona Katauskas
    How does Black Friday show your true colours?

    You’ll probably end up in the red

Sport

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  1. Eben Etzebeth puts his thumb in Alex Mann's eye

    Wales 0-73 South Africa
    Etzebeth red card mars South Africa demolition job as Wales slump to record home defeat

  2. Kyra Cooney-Cross, second left, celebrates after scoring in Australia’s 5-0 thumping of New Zealand

    Football
    High-fives all round for the Matildas as they crush Football Ferns in friendly

  3. Knicks guard Jalen Brunson drives past Bucks forward Kyle Kuzma during the second half of Friday’s NBA Cup game in New York.

    NBA Cup
    Quarter-finals take shape as Heat v Magic, Knicks v Raptors fill out East bracket

  4. Iga Swiatek holds the peak of her cap

    Tennis interview
    Iga Swiatek: ‘I didn’t want to give any points for free – it’s a Wimbledon final and I wanted to win’

More news

  • Liberal MP Andrew Hastie

    Politics
    Exclusive gun club linked to Andrew Hastie awarded almost $20,000 in government grants

  • Hong Kong chief executive John Lee (C) and other officials observe three minutes of silence on Saturday to mourn victims of the Wang Fuk Court residential estate fire

    Hong Kong
    Three days of mourning after deadly Hong Kong apartment fires

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Explainers & analysis

  1. CBD on green gifting

    Change by degrees
    Don’t want waste this Christmas? How to give green and sustainable gifts

  2. For Sale signs are seen outside a unit block in Sydney

    Explainer
    Australia’s Help to Buy scheme to get more people owning homes opens next week. Here’s what you need to know

  3. university students on campus

    Explainer
    ‘Early Christmas present’: Hecs debt relief is here – here’s what it means for you

  4. POLAND-UKRAINE-DIPLOMACY-ZELENSKY-DUDAHead of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak (L) attends a meeting of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) with the Polish President at Belweder Palace in Warsaw, Poland on January 15, 2025. (Photo by Sergei GAPON / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI GAPON/AFP via Getty Images)

    Analysis
    Ukraine corruption scandal threatens Zelenskyy’s special relationship with top aide

More Australia news

  1. Exclusive
    Palestinian Australian assaulted and abused on train ‘shocked’ police charged assailant with assault but not hate speech

  2. Crowdy Bay
    Beaches reopen after bull shark kills Swiss tourist with police reviewing GoPro footage from scene

  3. South Australia
    Anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe claims University of Adelaide gave her immunity from complaints by pro-choice campaigners

  4. Politics
    Inside the 72-hour rush that ended the long fight to fix nature protection laws

More world news

  1. The people fleeing climate breakdown
    ‘We had to swim to safety. I didn’t think we would make it out alive’

  2. Ukraine war briefing
    One killed and seven wounded as Russia launches another overnight attack on Kyiv

  3. UK
    Taliban used discarded British kit to track down Afghans who worked with west, inquiry hears

  4. Canada
    Quebec to ban public prayer in sweeping new secularism law

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Culture

  • Ethan Hawke, left, who will play songwriter Lorenz Hart in the film Blue Moon, with director Richard Linklater. Shot at the Soho Hotel, London, October 2025.

    Film
    ‘It felt dangerous. You got naggy’: Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater on power, combovers and Blue Moon

  • Illustration of picture book images

    Australia's best picture book
    Nominate your favourite Australian children’s picture book of all time

What to watch

  1. Thelma and louise film montage

    My cultural awakening
    Thelma & Louise made me realise I was stuck in an unhappy marriage

  2. Voisin on a beach, shot in black and white, about to climb up some stairs

    Film
    New film adaptation of Camus’s L’Étranger opens old colonial wounds

  3. a samurai-like drifter with webbed feet

    Ranked
    You’re gonna need a bigger boat: the 20 best films set on water

  4. South Park residents put on their annual Turkey Trot festival.

    Television
    The US government ruins Thanksgiving: it’s a South Park holiday special

What to listen to

  1. Pharoah Sanders, left, and Sonny Sharrock performing in Berlin, 1968.

    Music
    ‘I almost always play it in hiding, alone’: can anyone get into free jazz, history’s most maligned music?

  2. Brian Eno.

    Music
    Neneh Cherry, Celeste, Nadine Shah and Brian Eno join Christmas No 1 race with Palestine charity single

  3. Full Story podcast
    Newsroom edition: unpacking Pauline Hanson’s burqa stunt

    Podcast24:15
  4. Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

    Review
    Beethoven & Brahms: Violin Concertos – as supple and coherent as ever as the ACO celebrates 50

What to read

  1. Tom Gauld cartoon

    Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons
    Ordering books online

  2. Evelyn Araluen.

    Australian book reviews
    The Rot by Evelyn Araluen – headlong language and bitter truths imbued with tenderness

  3. a person looks at an artwork that says 'I shop therefore I am'

    Books
    ‘Adults think with their mouths open’: five modern aphorisms to help us make sense of 2025

  4. a woman leans on a skull with flowers in its eye sockets

    Books
    ‘Stay tuned’: new Anne Rice film could foretell release of unpublished work by late author

What to play

  1. A screenshot from The Outer Worlds 2 game

    Games
    My family’s excitement about Outer Worlds 2 was short-lived – but at least we bonded over the disappointment

  2. Kirby Air Riders screenshot

    Review
    Kirby Air Riders review – cute pink squishball challenges Mario for Nintendo racing supremacy

  3. Arc Raiders.

    Pushing Buttons
    How generative AI in Arc Raiders started a scrap over the gaming industry’s future

    Newsletter
  4. An unapologetic games machine … Sega Master System.

    Games
    Master System at 40: the truth about Sega’s most underrated console

More culture

  1. A sandy beach with a cast-iron sculpture of a naked man and a small white dog captured mid-run in mid-air

    Smart shot
    ‘When I saw what I captured I felt a Muybridge-like joy’: Roger Tooth’s best phone picture

  2. Skyhooks in 1976. From left: Freddie Strauks, Graeme Strachan, Red Symons and Bob Starkie

    Music
    Skyhooks guitarist Bob ‘Bongo’ Starkie dies aged 73

  3. Fiona Katauskas, The Guardian

    In pictures
    Fearless in fine detail: Australia’s best political cartoons of 2025

    Gallery10
  4. Australian actor and writer Bryan Brown in Mort Bay Park in Sydney’s inner west.

    Walk with ...
    Bryan Brown: ‘I found rejection quite easy because I’d been a salesman’

Lifestyle

Food

  1. Matthew Ryle's chapon rôti, chestnuts, pommes anna, is roast capon, potatoes.

    French food
    Matthew Ryle’s Christmas roast capon with chestnuts, buttery pommes Anna, and twice-baked cheese souffle – recipe

  2. A turkey on a table with vegetables, plates, cutlery and a bottle of wine

    Feast
    Yes, there are reasons to be cynical about Thanksgiving. But there’s also turkey …

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  3. Brightly coloured cereal being poured into a

    Exclusive
    Australian diet set to worsen as national food policy is drawn up by profit-driven industry, experts warn

  4. Left to right - Wen Li, Tina Wang, April Li and Eric Zhang at Chinese Noodle House. Chinese Noodle House, an iconic restaurant in Sydney's China town, is slated to close due to landlords not extending the lease to the tenants.

    Sydney
    Goodbye Chinese Noodle House, hello ... Chinese Noodle Houses? City favourite to become two identically named – and competing – diners

Wellbeing

  1. A mother applying sun cream on daughter's back

    Exclusive
    ‘Mineral’ sunscreens contain almost identical chemicals as others, testing shows

  2. Vitamins and supplements

    Explainer
    Vitamin supplements with high levels of B6 will be removed from general sale in Australia – here’s what you need to know

  3. Susan in a black bodysuit lying across a cream chair

    Intimate portraits
    ‘It was no longer a gift for my husband. It was all for me’: four women on how boudoir photography changed their lives

  4. We need to be proactive and flexible about our interactions.

    Well actually
    Feeling lonely? Six ways to connect with friends – even when busy

Advice

  1. Painting: Susanna and the Elders by Artemisia Gentileschi (1652).

    Leading questions
    How do I respond to someone who says ‘I’m not racist, but ... ’?

  2. Illustration of moka pot steaming and someone appearing alarmed in background through doorway

    You be the judge
    Should my partner stop compressing the coffee in the moka pot?

  3. A hand sifting through vintage clothes

    Op shops
    $10 for a pair of used tongs? When secondhand prices are higher than new

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    Christmas
    How to be a good party host (or guest)

Fashion & beauty

  1. Jacqueline Bisset wearing a long sheer skirt with a long black blazer

    Fashion
    ‘Sexy and a little daring, but never too much’: sheer skirts hit the sweet spot

  2. Lady Gaga on stage in a giant red gown

    Fashion
    ‘An engineering feat’: the 26-year-old Australian making costumes for Lady Gaga

  3. Josh Toussaint-Strauss digs into the long history behind the practice of skin lightening, and how the beauty industry has used messaging rooted in classism and colonialism to sell its products, as well as investigating what unregulated products are doing to the skin

    Health
    How the beauty industry still profits from colonialism – video

    Video6:52
  4. Luke Turner in workwear jacket in forest

    Fashion
    ‘It’s an acceptance of where my body is now’ – the modern-day appeal of workwear

Travel

  • Linda Murphy sat at a table in the pie shop wearing a broad brim hat covered in red and black feathery material and her pearly queen outfit

    The Guardian picture essay
    Pearly kings and queens of London in their 150th year

  • Mountainous Monchique, Algarve.

    Portugal holidays
    Authentic Algarve: exploring Portugal beyond the beach

Relationships

  1. Rebecca Shaw

    I’m always on my phone, my girlfriend would rather communicate via woodland creatures. Somehow we make it work

    Rebecca Shaw
  2. Emily Bratt standing on a cliff with the sea in the background

    Friendship
    The loneliness fix: I wanted to find new friends in my 30s – and it was easier than I imagined

  3. Illustration of giant boot with a naked couple in it

    This is how we do it
    I’ll have to tell my wife what’s going on soon

  4. Lynda and David on their wedding day in 2024.

    The moment I knew
    He presented me with my hearing aids like they were a little gift

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    Architecture
    Two Australian homes win top places in international 2025 Dezeen awards

  2. Skye Gyngell at the Petersham Nurseries Café in 2011, the year it earned a Michelin star.

    Skye Gyngell obituary
    First Australian woman to win a Michelin star

  3. Jair Bolsonaro, wearing a black T-shirt, crosses his arms

    Brazil
    ‘Foam that’s washed away’: support dissolves as Bolsonaro starts 27-year jail term

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