PAN wants sex with animals classified as crime; Party presents draft law, calling for jail terms of up to a year

We live in a world that documents everything. We don’t register a camera in someone’s hand anymore, but a camera on someone’s face? That’s another...

A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

Multiple acts participating in a comedy festival in Portugal, the inaugural MEO Commedia a La Carte Fest (Lisbon International Humour Festival), have announced that they are no longer participating.

The target is the Mina do Barroso, an open-pit lithium mine planned by London-listed mining developer Savannah Resources. It would be one of the largest in Western Europe.

RIP, the Guardian-Observer 1993-2025. It was not a natural death.

The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts.

New analysis has found Australia’s biggest industrial emitters received around $22 in Fuel Tax Credit rebates for every dollar they spent complying with the federal government’s emissions reduction po...

Capital One Financial Corp. said in a court filing late Friday that it closed accounts belonging to President Donald Trump’s sprawling real estate company in 2021 for legitimate reasons after an inter...

Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed

Activists in the region say politicians regard LGBTQ+ people as ‘the easiest scapegoats to maintain their power’ A growing number of west African countries are implementing or strengthening anti-LGBTQ+ laws, amid local political pressures and a global pushback against LGBTQ+ rights. In March, Senegal doubled the maximum prison sentence for gay sex to 10 years and criminalised the “promotion” of homosexuality. Niger criminalised “sexual relations with a person of the same sex” in February, the first time same-sex intimacy had been outlawed in the country. Continue reading...

Scientists and sky gazers will watch intently as rocket’s upper stage slams into lunar surface on Wednesday

The Albanese machine’s biggest wheeze this month was not framing Labor’s national conference as a success but the idea up to speed on AI

Australian mining doesn't delivers jobs, defunds healthcare and education, and sucks dry communities nationwide. Explore the facts and see the difference mining makes.

Berlin police have called off the LGBTQ+ pride parade in the German capital, hours after the event had begun, saying it was because several people had been injured.

One Nation leader labels family violence leave ‘ridiculous’ and decries ‘woke’ support of women’s rights in November podcast

Scientists recorded slower reduction over past 20 years, but study finds this was ‘temporary rather than sustained’

She was the young girl in that infamous photograph with Prince Andrew, and the best-known survivor of Jeffrey Epstein. As Virginia’s explosive posthumous memoir continues to reverberate, her brother S...

A brown huntsman is the quickest of more than 250 species analysed by scientists in the UK and Germany

I can’t be delighted by something produced with generative AI. Give me books written by complicated people, drawings by sweet idiots, songs by those who feel

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Several months ago I did a livestream with a fellow Substacker, and I wore Meta glasses during it.

Former St Kilda and Western Bulldogs player Nicky Winmar has been found guilty of assaulting a woman in Victoria.

Murujuga traditional custodian Raelene Cooper has just submitted a complaint to UNESCO about the Australian government’s conduct during Murujuga’s World Heritage listing, with a potential UN Human Rig...

Exclusive: Documents also show the Catholic order sought financial support from the Holy See months before it declared it lacked money to pay survivors

Israeli forces will remain in so-called security zones established in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, without any timeline for withdrawal, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday. In Qatar, an Ir...

A familiar face on TV and the stage, Keith was made a dame in 2014 for her services to the arts and charities

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Crocodile Dundee was held up by the One Nation leader as an exemplar of ‘Australian monoculture’. Hoges had other ideas

Human rights advocates have expressed disappointment after the Government declined any recommendations relating to LGBTIQ+ Australians

Pauline Hanson’s populist and mostly false declarations have changed little in 30 years. They are her personal grievances writ large for an audience hungry to attribute their own grievances to particular races and religions.