‘Unprecedented’ global effort gives new name to polycystic ovary syndrome – and new hope to millions of women

Decades-long campaign powered by patient perspectives results in switch from PCOS – a name that caused confusion and undue suffering – to PMOS

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‘It’s fired people up’: support grows, including within Labor, for new gas tax to curb wartime profits

Government, industry and opposition see growing public support for a new gas tax but the industry is fighting back

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The first children born after Australia pledged to close the gap for First Nations people are now entering adulthood. What has changed?

Just four of the 17 Closing the Gap targets are on track – but in the Dates-Dungay family, it’s a different story

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Self-publish and be scammed: Jon’s tale of heartbreak highlights boom in fraudsters using AI to supercharge book swindles

New wave of publishing fraud mimics lonely hearts swindles of old – swapping promises of true love for the fantasy of literary acclaim. And the wooing process is now fully automated

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Invasion Day is about Indigenous people’s survival, our resilience. To strike at the heart of that is a hate crime | Lorena Allam

It’s past time for governments to help stop the ongoing racist violence directed at our communities

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Pauline Hanson thinks she speaks for the mainstream but her burqa stunt shows she is a bit player with bad instincts | Tom McIlroy

While banning the burqa might play with the Sky After Dark audience, it is miles from a broad concern among punters

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Australian bird of the year 2025 winner announcement – live

Follow live as we announce the winner of the 2025 Australian bird of the year

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Watching from Australia while Donald Trump targets my home of Chicago with armed troops prompts deep questions | Miles Herbert

I never again want to have to look back and wonder, could I have done more?

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I used to think birds made life worth living only for those of us obsessed with them. Now I know the truth

It wasn’t until I was in my 20s that I realised birds could have a powerful significance even for people who weren’t bird-nerds like me

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Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll

From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

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‘So tiny and so vulnerable’: what chance will one of Australia’s smallest birds have against a rocket launchpad?

When South Australia gave the go-ahead for a launch facility to be built at a site that’s home to the endangered southern emu-wren, conservationists were astounded

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‘We are horrified’: proposed lead mine in NSW wine region has community living in fear for children’s health

Following revelations the environment watchdog buried a report on lead mining, parents wonder if they can ‘trust that our children’s safety is coming first’ over mining interests

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In the days after my mum died, a blackbird lingered like a messenger of solace | Mark Saunokonoko

Some Māori believe that when they die, their spirit travels up New Zealand to the tip of the North Island – souls flying like birds

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Australian bird of the year 2025: nominate your favourite now

We want to hear which Australian birds you think should be shortlisted for the Guardian/Birdlife Australia bird of the year poll next month

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Community fights lead mine near primary school as report highlights Australia’s failure to protect children

Report commissioned by Mudgee health alliance suggests mine’s health and environmental assessments accepted by NSW government contain errors and outdated evidence

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Australian War Memorial defers military history prize after judging panel awards it to book on Ben Roberts-Smith

Exclusive: Governing council ‘retrospectively’ decides the Les Carlyon literary award should go only to first-time authors, ruling out Chris Masters’ book

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The rules of political gravity may have set in for Jacinta Nampijinpa Price – but the Coalition is still in a dangerous limbo

Price’s refusal to endorse Sussan Ley’s leadership on Wednesday was a deliberate provocation that left the opposition leader no choice * Report: Ley dumps Nampijinpa Price from shadow ministry over refusal to back leadership or apologise over migrants comments * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast For much of her short career in Canberra, the usual rules of political gravity have appeared not to apply to Jacinta Nampijinpa Price. A firebrand, outspoken and unapologetic about almost everything, she went from a first-term backbencher from the Northern Territory to a member of the shadow cabinet in less than a term. Easily the most prominent opponent of the Indigenous voice to parliament, Price used the referendum campaign to build her political brand exponentially. Tom McIlroy is Guardian Australia’s chief political correspondent. Continue reading...

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The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich

Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians

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Should Australia worry about RFK Jr’s shock flu vaccine move?

A US panel’s decision not to recommend the preservative thiomersal won’t affect vaccine availability in Australia, say experts. But it will stoke dangerous anti-vax sentiment

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Revealed: the astonishing greenhouse gas emissions that will result from the North West Shelf project

The annual total dwarfs CO2-e from many other sources – including whole countries

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The warmongers were wrong about Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Now watch them make the same mistake about Iran | Owen Jones

Israel is the main source of terror and instability in the Middle East. But the west continually turns away from this reality, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Peter Dutton has 'been very clear about that' many, many times during election campaign – video

From his plans for civil service jobs to healthcare to combating Trump's tariffs, the opposition leader says he has 'been very clear about that'

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