Guardian Australia

Justin Stevens has resigned as ABC director of news after four years in the role, citing personal and professional reasons.

‌ABC managing director Hugh Marks said Stevens had made an “incredible commitment” to the ABC over 19 years, including ensuring ABC News is the number one digital news provider.

Marks said: “I am grateful to have seen the strength of Justin’s editorial instincts and to have observed his commitment to the ABC and audiences. I wish him every success in the future.”

📷: ABC News

Reporting by Amanda Meade. Read the full story. 🔗👉 www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/27/justin-steve…

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Former Australian prime minister Paul Keating has urged Labor to stick to its guns on controversial changes to capital gains tax, warning that exempting commercial assets from the changes would further “distort” the economy.

Small business and the startup sector are fighting the Albanese government over its plans to shift the 50% capital gains tax discount to an inflation-based model, part of a suite of tax reforms announced in this month’s federal budget.

In the lead-up to Labor introducing legislation for the changes to parliament on Thursday, Australia’s 24th prime minister said settings in place since 1999 had badly hurt the productive economy, as financial resources were diverted to housing, particularly established property.

Exclusive. Reporting by Tom McIlroy, political editor. Read the full story. 🔗👉 www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/27/lab…

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Former AFL player and coach Neale Daniher has died, 13 years after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease.

The 65-year-old’s family issued a statement on Monday confirming Daniher had passed away at home.

“From day one, Neale was a fighter,” the statement read. “His determination was unmatched – choosing every day to find opportunity where others might only see challenge, and taking the fight to the Beast with everything he had.”

Daniher played for Essendon and later coached Melbourne between 1998 and 2007. He also held coaching positions with Fremantle and West Coast.

📷: AFL Photos

Read more. 🔗👉 www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/may/25/neale-danihe…

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The Bondi terror attack was a ‘surprise attack’ to intelligence and law enforcement agencies, the royal commission has heard.

Counsel assisting, Richard Lancaster SC, outlined some of the information received by the commission from NSW police that can’t be addressed in public hearings, which he said provided ‘important matters of context’ in assessing their response.

’There is no evidence that any intelligence agency or law enforcement agency had any actual knowledge or specific information to suggest that there might be an armed attack on the Hanukkah celebration at Bondi on 14 December 2025. In that sense it was a surprise attack.‘

Lancaster said the evidence would indicate that CSG asked NSW Police for police presence for the ’entirety‘ of the Hanukkah events at Bondi Beach and Dover Heights.

He said NSW Police “decided not to provide a static presence for the duration of the Bondi event” and instead allocated mobile tasking – meaning officers were instructed to attend periodically.

’At the time the shooting began, there were four police officers at Archer Park … Within 29 seconds of the start of the shooting, eleven people were shot, tragically ten of them fatally … Within five minutes, there are eleven officers on the scene … The first shooter was shot and killed and the second shooter was shot and apprehended around seven minutes and 41 seconds after the start of the shooting.‘

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Bold and bright, Vivid Sydney transforms the city’s streets and parks with light installations, projections and digital art. It includes a 6.5km light walk from Barangaroo to Darling Harbour, along with live music, panel discussions and pop-up dining. The festival runs until 13 June.

1. The ethereal 3D projection Constellations from Studio Lemercier hovers above the waves of Nawi Cove. Photograph: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images

2. Time:Warped by Neon Dynamo is seen projected in the Argyle Cut at the Rocks. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

3. Mycelium Network by UK artist Stevie Thompson runs across the ground at Barrangaroo. Photograph: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images

4. The Fringe of Infinity by Spanish artist Javier Riera is projected on to the Customs House building at Circular Quay. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

5. Koro Loko by Steve Wong and Ian Nicolosi at Circular Quay. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

6. Circles of Rhythm, by Giles Westley, Anna Fraser and Julian Burgess, is projected on to a building at Campbells Cove. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

7. Invisible Cities by Atelier Sisu is a series of interconnected aluminium ribbons at First Fleet Park in the Rocks. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

8. Time:Warped by Neon Dynamo is a seven-minute ride through time projected in the Argyle Cut at the Rocks. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

9. Vaiola, by Sāmoan/Australian artist Angela Tiatia, projected on to the Museum of Contemporary Art for Vivid Sydney 2026. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

10. The celestial laser installation Molecule of Light by Chris Levine sits above Barangaroo Reserve. Photograph: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images

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Australia’s most famous koala-sniffing dog – who has helped save endangered koalas from fires and floods – has hung up his little red boots, with the search now on for his successor.

After a decade helping rescue koalas, 11-year-old detection dog Bear retired in March.

His exit left conservationists scrambling to find a new recruit capable of plugging gaps left by human spotters and infrared detection technologies.

The ideal candidate will be energetic, obsessed with fetching balls and have absolutely zero interest in chasing wildlife.

📷: Desley Whissen / Jimmy Malecki/IFAW

Applicants from all backgrounds accepted. Read the full story. 🔗👉 www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/20/aus…

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The unemployment rate climbed to 4.5% in April, from 4.3% in the month before, as the number of employed Australians dropped by 18,600.

The unexpected lift in the jobless rate threatens a lengthy period of extraordinary job market resilience, as economists predict the global oil crisis will drive a sharp slowdown in growth this year.

Full-time employment fell by 10,700 people, and part-time employment decreased by 7,900, the Australian Bureau of Statistics data showed.

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The Australian federal court has upheld a landmark decision that found a women-only social media app and its founder unlawfully discriminated against Roxanne Tickle after the transgender woman was denied access to the platform.

In their judgment on Friday, 15 May, justices Melissa Perry, Wendy Abraham and Geoffrey Kennett affirmed an August 2024 finding that Tickle was discriminated against on the basis of her gender identity, and also sided with Tickle’s cross-appeal, claiming she experienced two instances of direct discrimination by the Giggle for Girls app and its founder Sall Grover.

Read the full story. 🔗👉 www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/15/gig…

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“Perhaps somewhere down the line housing in Australia could be viewed as a human right, rather than a good investment.” – Gen Z Ima Caldwell.

Members of four different generations at Guardian Australia give their two cents on Jim Chalmers’ 2026 federal budget announcement. Read in full. 🔗 👉 www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/12/aus…

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Taxpayers and first home buyers are the winners in Labor’s 2026 budget, while rich families could be among the losers.

We’ve read hundreds of budget paper pages so you don’t have to. Find out more about who is better off and who is worse off in the budget, and why. 🔗 👉 www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/12/fed…

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