Zoe Daniel has requested the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) conduct a recount in the seat of Goldstein after Liberal Tim Wilson emerged 260 votes ahead after the final distribution of preferences. The AEC automatically recounts votes if the margin is less than 100, but candidates can also request one if they believe they have sufficient…
Scarlett on Issy What were you hoping for?A dandy evening with a lovely lady. First impressions?Cool, calm and collected. We met accidentally in the foyer of the Guardian offices before the date – I don’t think either of us was quite prepared for that, but she carried it off. What did you talk about?What didn’t…
Defense secretary Pete Hegseth moved on Friday to dramatically curtail press access inside the Pentagon, seemingly punishing the news media for reporting on leaks of classified and unclassified information in recent weeks. The changes, announced in a two-page memo issued by Hegseth, effectively boxed credentialed reporters into one corner on one floor of the building…
I look back at the last day of our old life with a kind of wonder now: the million summer freedoms, the complacency of our ease. I watched the cricket with Max on my knee. Friends came to visit, and Ruth fed Max while we talked about our new neighbourhood among piles of books and…
Polish presidential candidates offered different visions of Poland and its relations with Ukraine in a televised debate ahead of next week’s run-off, which remains on a knife-edge. During a head-to-head debate lasting two hours, the centrist Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, from prime minister Donald Tusk’s governing pro-European coalition, faced the Eurosceptic historian Karol Nawrocki, backed…
