As council workers collect up to 200kg of dead marine life a day, experts warn the disaster could take a mental toll on the community Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The circling, squawking gulls show where the bodies are buried. Early on a cold winter’s day, mucky foam and seaweed cover the sand at Grange beach – and the dead fish and leafy sea dragons. Continue reading...

• Guardian Australia
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Have you been left out of pocket by soaring charges from your specialist? Share your experience with us If you’ve visited a specialist recently, you may have felt the hit to your hip pocket. Patients are paying hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars out of pocket for healthcare as some doctors charge not just double, but triple, the Medicare rebate. While GPs face pressure to bulk bill, there is no similar conversation about non-GP specialists, despite the fact they are also trained in the public system and remunerated through Medicare, experts told Guardian Australia when we recently wrote about this issue . Continue reading...

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Well-meaning people might say you need closure, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith . But this isn’t always necessary – or possible – for moving on Read more Leading questions I struggle with letting go of things. Distressing situations, that occurred 40 years ago and more, still regularly pop into my mind and stress me out. I don’t seem to be able to move past them and forget them. Even small irrelevant things annoy me and get me worked up. How can I either forget them or stop them raising my blood pressure? I seem to continually be stressing about insignificant things that I can’t change anyway. Can you suggest some techniques to move on and lead a calmer life? Eleanor says: Since you said a lot of these are small or insignificant upon reflection, I’ll assume we’re not talking about big traumas, or the kinds of insults a person shouldn’t aspire to forget. I assume they’re the kinds of sour memories we all have: bad luck, bad slights. Being yanked backwards through time to those hurtful memories can be so unpleasant. Not just for us, but for the people around us; it can keep us psychically stuck in old distress, each new event seen as a trace outline of the past. Continue reading...

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Event will be biggest country has seen as 35,000 marathon runners share the roads with superstars Eliud Kipchoge and Sifan Hassan Marathons are selling out like Taylor Swift tickets. Running is in vogue, and many newer runners are seeking the shortest route from couch to marathon – a distance once considered superhuman. Now, amid the proliferation of training shared online, and the Ned Brockman mentality that extreme equals better , running 42.2km has never felt so achievable. As Sydney Marathon gears up for its Abbott World Marathon Major debut on 31 August, it has the running world at its feet – everyone from “runfluencers” and run crews, to rusted-on runners keen to tick off their next, or first, major. Sydney has introduced a ballot system like the other major marathons, which are increasingly hard to get into. A staggering 1.1 million people applied for a spot on the start line at the 2026 London marathon. Other Australian races are adapting to the running boom too – Melbourne, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast have fine-tuned their courses to expand capacity amid record-breaking sign-ups. Continue reading...

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Loretta Quinn took out a personal safety intervention order against Dezi Freeman after a disagreement about him accessing her property Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A former neighbour of the suspected Porepunkah gunman said he used to hunt for deer nearby, had an intimate knowledge of Mount Buffalo and used to spy on her, including with drones. Loretta Quinn lived next to Dezi Freeman in Myrtleford, on the opposite side of Mount Buffalo to the site of the fatal shooting, between 2017 and 2019. Continue reading...

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The joy of procedural dramas such as Elementary, Castle and Bones lies in their gentle, soothing predictability Like many people living through the current state of the world, I’ve been searching for ways to settle my brain. Something to offer even a brief (privileged) reprieve from the horrors, the headlines, the general sense of doom. My anxiety’s high, my brain’s short-circuiting and I’ve had to find new coping mechanisms to help soothe the agitated static inside my head. It needs to be something that gives my brain a short break, engaging enough that it distracts me but doesn’t get me spiralling or thinking (yuck). Over the past few months, I’ve found something that works perfectly. I’ve fallen into the arms of procedural dramas. I am a known TV lover, so it’s not that surprising, but I have never really gotten deep into these kinds of shows. You know the ones, a crime or legal case or something occurs at the beginning of the episode and within 45 minutes it has been investigated and resolved. Continue reading...

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US stocks have opened lower as investors digest economic data and monitor comments from members of the Federal Reserve.

• The West Australian
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US stocks have opened lower as investors digest economic data and monitor comments from members of the Federal Reserve.

• PerthNow
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Move by trio of European powers gives Tehran 30 days to improve access for inspection of its nuclear sites The UK, France and Germany have formally notified the UN that they have triggered the restoration of sweeping UN sanctions against Iran, giving Tehran 30 days to make concessions on access to its nuclear sites or face deeper worldwide economic isolation. UK officials said the decision had not been taken lightly and there had been intensive diplomacy to try to avert this step. The officials stressed there was still room for some last-ditch diplomacy before the sanctions “snapback” comes into force in 30 days’ time. The annual high-level UN general assembly in September is likely to host more intensive diplomacy over the situation with Iran. Continue reading...

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Actor says she agrees with astronomer Carl Sagan that it is narcissistic to think there is no other life in universe The actor Emma Stone has declared that she believes in the existence of aliens, saying she agrees with the astronomer Carl Sagan, who said it would be “pretty narcissistic” to think otherwise. In her new film Bugonia, Stone plays a chief executive of a major company who is kidnapped by a pair of conspiracy theorists who believe she is an alien intent on destroying the planet. Continue reading...

• Guardian Australia
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There are calls to fast-track the national firearm register, but one expert says a far more pressing issue should be discussed instead.

• 9News Australia
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Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook has sued US President Donald Trump's administration to block her attempted firing.

• PerthNow
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Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook has sued US President Donald Trump's administration to block her attempted firing.

• The West Sport
• 2 gün, 13 saat

Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook has filed a lawsuit claiming US President Donald Trump has no power to remove her from office, setting up a legal battle that could reset long-established norms for the country’s central bank.  Cook’s lawsuit said Trump, a Republican, violated a federal law allowing the president to remove a Fed governor […]

• Michael West
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As the punk poet prepares to tour and reissue Horses for its 50th anniversary, we count down the best of her rich, rabble-rousing work Not all the politicking on Gung Ho landed right – Stange Messengers is unbearably clumsy – but Glitter in Their Eyes’ plea for a younger generation not to get hooked on materialism is impressively punchy and potent, abetted by the presence on guitar of her old sparring partner, Television’s Tom Verlaine. Continue reading...

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Super-svelte body, fast chip, high capacity battery and big camera make it some of the best phone-tablet hardware Honor’s latest foldable phone-tablet attempts to usurp Samsung as the leader of the pack with a super-thin body, massive battery and a ginormous camera lump on the back. The Magic V5 is an impressively thin piece of engineering, slimmed down to about 8.9mm thick when shut, with each half about the same thickness as a USB-C port. It feels very similar to a standard slab phone in the hand, but one you can open up like a book for a mini-tablet on the go. Main screen: 7.95in (403ppi) 120Hz OLED flexible display Cover screen: 6.43in (405ppi) 120Hz OLED Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite RAM: 16GB Storage: 512GB Operating system: MagicOS 9.0.1 (Android 15) Camera: 50MP + 50MP ultrawide + 64MP 3x tele; 2x 20MP selfie Connectivity: 5G, dual sim + esim, USB-C, wifi 7, NFC, Bluetooth 6, GNSS Water resistance: IP58 and IP59 (immersion and high pressure jets) Dimensions folded: 156.8 x 74.3 x 8.88-9mm Dimensions unfolded: 156.8 x 145.9 x 4.1-4.2mm Weight: 217-222g Continue reading...

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