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Anthony Albanese and Labor have won in a landslide, while Dutton has lost his seat. Matilda Boseley explains where things stand as election night draws to a close. #australianelection #albanese #dutton #ausvotes2025

A small group of people booed and yelled throughout the welcome to country delivered by Bunurong elder Uncle Mark Brown at today’s Anzac Day dawn service in Melbourne. “This morning, I’m here to welcome everyone to my father’s country,” Brown said, speaking over the shouts. “We all gather in the spirit of respect and unity and this welcome is an opportunity … to honour and respect the deep cultural heritage of the Bunurong people of the Kulin nations.” “What about the Anzacs?” one man shouted, while others yelled: “It’s our country … We don’t have to be welcomed.” Others in the crowd shouted “always was, always will be” and clapped and cheered over the top of the hecklers. Police have interviewed a man in relation to the offensive behaviour.

When Paul Adam sees a long queue forming at the front of his patisserie in the northern suburbs of Sydney, “that’s when I know I’m going to start working hard,” he says. In the weeks since one of his cakes went viral across several Chinese social media platforms, every day has been a hard work day at Du Plessy Pralin & ​Otello in Pymble. The gluten-free hazelnut, meringue and chocolate mousse cake, with lorikeets stencilled in icing sugar on top, is by Adam’s estimation, “only a cake”, but it seems to mean much more to the customers queuing for it, some of whom travelled from interstate, or overseas to try it. Adam increased his production from around 100 cakes a week to 150 cakes a day in order to keep up with demand.

Video has emerged showing the moment Israeli troops opened five and killed 15 medics in Gaza. The video shot by one of the medics who was killed in Rafah on 23 March shows clearly marked ambulances using flashing emergency lights as they searched the area for colleagues who had gone missing. The Israeli military initially said its soldiers 'did not randomly attack' any ambulances, insisting they fired on 'terrorists' approaching them in 'suspicious vehicles', a claim put in doubt by the video. Now, Israel’s military has backtracked on its account of the killing of 15 Palestinian medics in Gaza last month after footage contradicted its claims that their vehicles did not have emergency signals on when Israeli troops opened fire. Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one UN employee, were killed in the incident in Rafah on 23 March, in which the UN said Israeli forces shot the men “one by one” and then buried them in a mass grave. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the incident was still under investigation. It added: “All claims, including the documentation circulated about the incident, will be thoroughly and deeply examined to understand the sequence of events and the handling of the situation.” According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha), the Palestine Red Crescent Society and civil defence workers were on a mission to rescue colleagues who had been shot at earlier in the day, when their clearly marked vehicles came under heavy Israeli fire in the Tel al-Sultan area of Rafah. A Red Crescent official in Gaza said there was evidence of at least one person being detained and killed, as the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied.

The ships were last spotted southeast of Perth. When the live-fire drills conducted by Chinese navy ships, there is fierce disagreement – and intense politicking – on who knew what and when. Australian authorities say they never received notice, and that they first heard of the potentially dangerous activity in the Tasman Sea from the pilot of a commercial flight over the area. China says they issued repeated safety notices in advance. Guardian Australia's Ben Doherty walks through what we know so far

The ABC has called the seat of Melbourne for Labor, meaning that Adam Bandt will almost certainly lose his seat. Labor leads the two-candidate preferred (TCP) count by 52.7% to the Greens’ 47.3%. The Greens' margin in the seat of Melbourne has declined compared with 2022 due to boundary redistributions, which resulted in the electorate losing some strong Greens-voting areas in the north of the seat, and gaining areas in South Yarra where the Liberal vote is higher. This redistribution is likely responsible for at least some of the swing against the Greens. #auspol #australianelection2025 #greens #labor #adambandt

In his first words from the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica in 2013, the newly elected Pope Francis, told the packed square below: “You all know that the duty of the conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my brother cardinals have come almost to the ends of the earth to get him.” The wry observation struck a winning self-deprecatory note. But the Argentinian pope’s allusion to his outsider status was telling: having been chosen by his peers, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio intended his to be a far more radical and reforming papacy than the conclave had bargained for. During his 12-year papacy, Francis – the first Jesuit pope – was a vocal champion of the world’s poor, dispossessed and disadvantaged, and a blunt critic of corporate greed and social and economic inequality. Within the Vatican, he criticised extravagance and privilege, calling on church leaders to show humility. His death is likely to exacerbate sharp divisions within the curia, with conservatives seeking to wrest control of the church away from reformers. And amid intense mourning over the coming days and weeks, manoeuvring within the Vatican will take place over who is to succeed Francis and become the 267th head of the Catholic church. Cardinals from around the world will head to Rome for a conclave, the secret, complex election ritual held in the Sistine Chapel and involving about 138 cardinals who are eligible to vote. The deliberations and final choice will determine whether Francis’s efforts to reform its institutions and to shift its emphasis towards the poor will be a durable legacy. 📸Getty/AFP/Alamy #pope #popefrancis #vatican #catholic #newpope #breakingnews

Hope you’re not planning to travel to Japan or Bali any time soon. Fears of a global recession dragged the Australian dollar sharply lower on Monday against the country’s major trade partners and to its lowest point against the Euro, pound and US dollar since 2020. Matilda Boseley explains what that means for you, your shopping and travel plans. Pictures: AAP/Getty/Reuters/REX #LearnOnTikTok #auspol #money #traveltips

The Queensland senator Larissa Waters has been elected unopposed as the new federal Greens leader. The minor party’s 11 senators and lone MP met in Melbourne on Thursday afternoon to agree on its fifth parliamentary leader after Adam Bandt was unexpectedly ousted from Melbourne at the May election. New South Wales senator Mehreen Faruqi has been re-elected as deputy leader. #auspol #greens #larissawaters #adambandt #auselection2025 #breakingnews

It's Australia's dorkiest election debate: should you vote above or below the line when filling out the Senate ballot paper? But what difference does how you vote actually make, and do you need to number every single box? In this episode of Voting 101, Guardian Australia's Matilda Boseley explains what to do when you're faced with that giant white ballot paper at the voting booth Reporter: Matilda Boseley Videographer: Pablo Barnes Editor: Lisa Favazzo Additional animation: Andrew Warwick Executive producer: Michael Kalenderian#LearnOnTikTok #news #auspol #election2025

The downturn in international travel to the US following Trump’s inauguration exceeded even the global tourism industry’s worst case predictions, according to travel analytics group Tourism Economics. So why is it happening and what does this mean for Aussies? 📸 Alamy/REX/AAP/PA #trump #usatravel #tourism #australia #travelhacks #LearnOnTikTok

At the National Press Club today, the co-founder and chief executive of Cheek Media, Hannah Ferguson, announced her intention to run at the next federal election for the Senate as an independent candidate. Ferguson was also asked about the controversy over content creators interviewing politicians during the election and whether they required authorisation on their posts. Ferguson said content creators should not be collaboratively posting with politicians. “I think that is an endorsement,” she said. “And even if we can say it’s clearly not, I think the public are fair to be confused by that when consuming Instagram content.”

Australia's 2025 federal election is coming up. But what are we actually voting for? Why are there two ballots? What is the senate? As part of Guardian Australia's Voting 101 series, Matilda Boseley walks you through how Australian federal elections are actually kind of two elections combined, and what each of your different ballots represents.

Aussie Oscar Piastri just became the first double race winner in the 2025 Formula 1 season. In fact he is just three points away from leading the world drivers championship - the first time an Australian would have done this in 15 years. But there’s still 20 ultra competitive races to go, where he must go wheel-to-wheel with his team mate (and fiercest rival) Lando Norris. So, could Piastri be Australia’s next sporting legend? #Forumula1 #f1 #oscarpiastri #landonorris #bahriangp #landoscar #australia

There’s nothing an Aussie politician loves more than brandishing an outlandish prop while on the floor of parliament. Which is why, when Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young pulled out a bag containing a “rotten, stinking extinction salmon”, people may have been shocked … but not surprised. So let's take a look back at some of the most infamous political prop performances in our parliamentary history. 📸AAP/Getty 📽️ParlView #auspol #parliament #australia #LearnOnTikTok #salmon

Anthony Albanese will continue as prime minister. It was soon clear there was no path to victory for the Coalition and Peter Dutton, with Dutton even losing his own seat of Dickson. Matilda Boseley is here for unexpectedly early update.

The 2025 Australian federal election will be held on Saturday 3 May. But wait… what does that actually mean? Haven’t we known about the election for months? Why did the prime minister visit the governor general's house? What is this parliamentary 'caretaker mode' everyone keeps going on about? Guardian Australia's Voting 101 video series is back for another federal election campaign, with reporter Matilda Boseley ready to explain everything you need to know. #voting101 #australian #auspol #auselection2025 #albo #dutton #LearnOnTikTok

Featuring a backflip, truck crash, head wound and dead salmon, the five-week campaign was one for the history books.

Sussan Ley has become Australia’s first female opposition leader, beating Angus Taylor in the race for the Liberal leadership. Liberal MPs met Tuesday at Parliament House to elect a new leadership team, without former leader Peter Dutton, who lost his seat in the historic drubbing that was this year's federal election. Now the most senior woman in the party’s 80-year history, Ley was elected 29 votes to 25 votes over the former shadow treasurer. Her deputy will be Ted O’Brien, the former energy spokesperson. #auspol #liberals #sussanley #dutton #peterdutton #tedobrien