Police called to tumultuous meeting of Royal Australasian College of Physicians, where rival leaders are locked in a battle for control. Exasperated doctors say the turmoil is a symptom of a deeper pr...

The long read: His novel was praised for giving a voice to the victims of Algeria’s brutal civil war. But one woman has accused Kamel Daoud of having stolen her story – and the ensuing legal battle ha...

The doyenne of Australian picture books talks about her creative process, the ‘wild and woolly’ place that inspired Magic Beach – and how a favourite idea was sketched on an aeroplane sick bag

Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation

Parents now have something else to consider when deciding to have a baby – what the future holds as global temperatures rise. The climate, environment and science assistant editor, Donna Lu, speaks to...

Dashcam footage shows the moment Boris Gurman tackles shooter Sajid Akram and wrests a gun from him

Social media is driving a boom in the use of peptides to improve appearance and physical performance. Many are experimental and come with risk of serious side effects

Destruction wrought by swine-borne disease is thinning the canopy of bunya pine forests and the problem is getting worse, experts say

Fossil fuel company plans to expand exploration in Beetaloo basin

The deal to re-write the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act marks an end to a five-year struggle to fix the broken system

The fabric dye is popular in wellness circles, with a laundry list of claimed benefits – but it also carries serious risks

More than a third of Coalition voters believe temperatures will not rise at all, poll shows

Robert Beattie, 82, has found specimens of a 151m-year-old midge that challenge what we know about how the insects evolved

Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

Oils, creams and lotions with names like ‘mummy’s tummy’, ‘bump love’ and ‘belly butter’ abound * Read more in the Antiviral series Pregnancy can be a trying time: you can’t tell whether you’re nauseous or hungry, your body is working at close to the sustainable limit of human endurance, your organs are rearranging to make space for a growing alien. There are myriad indignities: nosebleeds, swelling feet, back pain, and, if you’re unlucky, ceaseless vomiting that goes “full Tarantino”. Continue reading...

After nearly 2 years of war and severe restrictions in humanitarian aid, tens of thousands of preschool-aged children in the Gaza Strip are suffering from preventable acute malnutrition and facing an ...

Wash Your Face in Orange Juice, Newspaper Mama, Toffee Apple … the children’s entertainer who has sold more than 1m albums and DVDs reflects on his 40-year career, childhood and speaking up

Victorian jury convicts 50-year-old who poisoned her in-laws with death cap mushrooms, killing three

No longer must we wince through a jarring Cockney-Kiwi mix: Hollywood has finally cracked Aussie dialects. Is it the teaching, the spread of Bluey, AI – or something else?

No longer must we wince through a jarring Cockney-Kiwi mix: Hollywood has finally cracked Aussie dialects. Is it the teaching, the spread of Bluey, AI – or something else?

Is Anthony Albanese charismatic? Peter Dutton? Charisma has been linked to electoral victory (just ask Bob Hawke), but defining it can be difficult

The all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday broke boundaries and set records in the spouting of girlboss gibberish, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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Plan to cut most standalone positions in favour of shorter fellowships will hurt international recruitment, critics say

Research finds people with self-declared gluten sensitivity experienced symptoms whether or not they ate gluten * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast People who report being gluten intolerant but do not have coeliac disease may be experiencing gut symptoms unrelated to gluten intake, new research suggests. A study involving individuals with self-reported gluten sensitivity has found that they experienced gut symptoms such as bloating and abdominal pain regardless of whether or not they consumed gluten. Continue reading...

We absolutely won’t tolerate leaks, they said before looping in a journalist to top secret war plans. Feel safe? Me neither, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

It’s time to open up your big fat mouths and push back against fatphobia

Australian meteorologists and scientists will be affected by mass firings at Noaa, experts warn

Australian meteorologists and scientists will be affected by mass firings at Noaa, experts warn

Reged Ahmad speaks to Sarah Martin, senior correspondent and the host of our new podcast series, Gina, about who Gina Rinehart is and what she wants

Swings between drought and floods striking from Dallas to Shanghai, while Madrid and Cairo are among cities whose climate has flipped

Category-four Larry crossed the coast near Innisfail on 20 March 2006. It blew hurricane-force winds over 200km/hour and we had the eye pass directly over us

Men do an average of 12.8 hours a week, while women do 18.4 hours, Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (Hilda) report finds

Self-distributed film about Israeli displacement of a Palestinian community beat out Porcelain War and Sugarcane

The president has trashed the longstanding principle of collective security with Nato. How can we be confident the US will continue to be our defensive shield?

In this adapted extract from What’s the Big Idea? Louise Adler looks at the failure of Australian cultural leaders shying from risk and artistic vision – and letting the tail wag the dog

Exclusive: Pacific Indigenous art collective claims NGA cited ‘high level’ security risk in direction to remove Palestinian flag from tapestry

Experts say the few scientific papers published about grounding – which can include walking barefoot outdoors or lying on the ground – lack scientific rigour

A young couple encounter catastrophic fires and ruined rivers on a California road trip, searching for art and hope in a darkening world

The Lebanese Australian artist, and curator Michael Dagostino say they are ‘extremely hurt’ by Creative Australia’s decision

Conservationists call for urgent government action as prolonged heatwave affects renowned reef, including Turquoise Bay, Tantabiddi and Bundegi

Memories emerge earlier in some cultures than others, but researchers have long puzzled over our inability to recall events before two or three years of age