An Australian man, 45-year-old Simon Peter Carman, was charged over the weekend with the alleged murder of Thunchanok Donhomla. His body was found early Saturday in a suitcase near railway tracks in Pattaya on Thailand’s eastern Gulf coast. Carman has denied the allegations. guardian correspondent in natasha talks to matilda bosley From Pattaya about the
This week, Labor secured a deal with the Greens to pass its reforms to capital gains tax exemptions and negative gearing. The Greens were unable to negotiate a more ambitious proposal to remove grandfathering or limit the number of negatively affected properties, but the party’s leader, Larissa Waters, says the deal was the best they
This week, Anthony Albanese’s UK counterpart, Keir Starmer, resigned as prime minister, bowing to mounting pressure. Many comparisons have been made between the pair, with the latter falling in the polls after landslide election victories, while insurgent right-wing parties have gained ground. Josephine Tovey talks to mike teacher,gabrielle jackson And International editor of Guardian Australia,
For most of the last decade, Australian menswear was ignored by you. Our womenswear went global, the world bought our designers and treated them like a serious export. Meanwhile, guys got tees and business shirts and a vaguely cultural shrug. You can see it in who won. Brands built on the lowest common denominator of
A Sydney author – I’ll call her Rebecca – vowed never to write another book after the maddening experience of publishing her first book. She is using a pseudonym because one day she may change her mind; The notoriously small Australian publishing industry does not view complaining authors with favour. When Rebecca was proofreading her
For the first time in her 30-year political career, Pauline Hanson led the National Press Club this week. It was a bombastic address, and a combative question-and-answer session with reporters – in which Hanson attacked multiculturalism, the climate crisis, transgender rights, Indigenous policy, paid parental leave, and the two public broadcasters. Longtime journalist Margo Kingston