One of the many devastating things about making this video was that we had to update it about three times during the making to account for further killings of journalists, including (you'll see at the end) a special mention of the 6 Al Jazeera journalists targeted by Israel. Please watch to the end.

Preferences are more important than ever this election. See where Australian voters sent theirs last time In some seats, preferences will make all the difference – and it’s not as simple as left or right. Explore what happened in your area in 2022

Preferences, where do they go!!

Cool charts from @joshnicholas.com

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Dutton’s comments show we are back to punching down on Indigenous Australians for attention – and votes | Lorena Allam It is disingenuous for politicians to be shocked when people decide to turn words into action, even in the predawn hush of Anzac Day

Very good from Lorena Allam earlier this week

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‘A history of family violence’: in the NT, a mother’s loss and a police system in dire need of overhaul No crime scene was established after Mona’s daughter died. She speaks publicly about the death for the first time to ensure it is not forgotten and to urge action

Please take the time to read this piece. The mother who gave so much of her time to make it possible deserves it.

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How are politicians appealing to young people YouTube video by Guardian Australia

How are politicians trying to appeal to younger voters? Dan and Matilda are talking it through RIGHT NOW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka7w...

Police remove homophobic banners hung over Melbourne highway targeting Labor MP Julian Hill Exclusive: Police confirm report of two offensive signs targeting Bruce MP Julian Hill, who is gay, hung on overpass bridge

Police remove homophobic banners hung over Melbourne highway targeting Labor MP Julian Hill (story with @henrybelot.bsky.social ) www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

oh my god what could be causing this, so hard to explain

Could the Coalition’s spectacular backdown be the circuit breaker that Peter Dutton needs? Junking a signature policy to focus on his pet areas could help get his rocky campaign back on track

'This isn’t a minor political backtrack …This is a great honking about-face.'

Great analysis of the Coalition's mid-campaign mea culpa from @joshbutler.bsky.social

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Bullied, slut-shamed, overworked: why Australia could lose an ‘entire generation’ of school principals A new report details ‘really inappropriate’ student behaviour as educators point to an alarming cultural shift playing out in the classroom

A fantastic (and worrying) story from @caitlinecassidy.bsky.social :

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Tourists, watercolours and the sad, still Star: sketching the route 35 tram showed me a Melbourne I had never really noticed When you are in a city every day, you start to take things for granted. So, after three years in Melbourne, Josh Nicholas decided to be a tourist

I really love this, @joshnicholas.com !! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

We ( @joshnicholas.com and I ) have just finished a big re-design of our poll tracking page. The redesign had two goals 1) improve the clarity of the summary charts and 2) de-emphasise the mean, and add emphasis on the credibility range/uncertainty of the modelling...

More than 1% of Northern Territory population imprisoned as record jail numbers predicted to climb Watch houses repurposed as long-term prison cells as Country Liberal government claims ‘such is the nature of the mess we have inherited’

The principal lawyer at Territory Criminal Lawyers has told Ella Archibald-Binge conditions in NT police watch houses are “appalling”.

“That’s going to traumatise people … and it’s not going to make us any safer.”

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‘I knew I was going to die … why not get together beforehand and have a beautiful party?’ Facing terminal cancer, Annie Werner realised she didn’t want people saying ‘super nice’ things about her after she had died. She wanted to be there – so she held a living wake

Last week, Annie Werner told me about her living wake, and how normalising the processes around death 'makes it easier to face it, and to grieve'.

Her grace and generosity will stay with me for a long time, as will the joy of her 'Ultimate Celebration'.

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Five Great Reads: bed hogs, assassinations and diaries from Gaza Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

The weekend's edition of Five Great Reads featured a series of diaries from Gaza, which give one window on to what it's like to be there at the moment

(and, on a completely different note, a story about sleeping in seperate beds)

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little column a, little column b

Paradise Estate by Max Easton review – a layered, aching portrait of millennial malaise In this sequel of sorts to The Magpie Wing, a group of thirtysomethings share the rent in a Sydney, searching for solidarity and meaning in a sterile, gentrifying world

I once left a party to finish THE MAGPIE WING. Up now on the Guardian, I've reviewed PARADISE ESTATE, a sort-of sequel :

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Today’s five great reads has a scathing view of Netanyahu, advice for the ‘punctually challenged’, and a tour of the hotel that stands over Kabul ‘like a castle’ – a nerve centre for power in Afghanistan :

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(And some nice Thomas Boivin shots of Paris: )

(pics by Jessica Hromas)

I went for a walk with Charlotte Wood :

to have a conversation with such a writer about mortality, bodies and art was a real pleasure

The new interview series launches today on the Guardian >>

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Not mad about this, well done to all birds

‘Ballsy’, ‘very funny’, ‘read in one sitting’: the best Australian books out in October Each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

And have a shorter and v enthusiastic rec for it here: www.theguardian.com/books/2023/o...

Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko review – Miles Franklin winner slices open Australia’s past an... The latest novel from the author of Too Much Lip splits its time between the 1800s and 2024 and provides a masterclass in humour, flair and generosity

I reviewed Melissa Lucashenko's EDENGLASSIE for the Guardian : www.theguardian.com/books/2023/o...

Winner of #birdoftheyear announced at 12.30pm today - tune in at theguardian.com/au from 11.30pm for all the excitement. Also - get your own beautiful bird poster here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is now a #birdoftheyear account btw

Vote for the peregrine! Every day!! Do your duty !! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Vote vote (for the peregrine)

'I’m not rich. If I was rich, I wouldn’t have to rent my properties out.'

Wrote about my fave bird, fave book, and the language created by its author – ('instinctive, sudden and aerial', to take Robert's Macfarlane's gorgeous words)

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