1. Dutton blames Labor for poll decline Dutton’s campaign has been plagued by stumbles, policy backflips and mixed messaging, which have coincided with a dramatic collapse in the opinion polls. Asked to rate his campaign performance so far, Dutton offered a muted acknowledgment of the decline. But the opposition leader wasn’t fessing up to any…
A populist party in New Zealand’s governing coalition has introduced a bill to parliament that if enacted would define women and men by their biology, preventing trans women and men being recognised by law. The New Zealand First member’s bill is a long shot to become law as it has to be selected at random…
Before he left Argentina and moved to Italy to become pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio would visit the country’s villas miserias, not in a car flanked by security guards, but by bus – and this is what his people remember. “He would come here, kiss our feet, the feet of the people,” said Aida Bogarin, aged…
On a sunny morning in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where fighting between the M23 rebel group and the Congolese army raged earlier this year, men and women rushed towards a line of chairs outside a medical facility. Since 24 March, the Saint Vincent de Paul neuropsychiatric hospital, a…
More than 100 presidents of US colleges and universities have signed a statement denouncing the Trump administration’s “unprecedented government overreach and political interference” with higher education – the strongest sign yet that US educational institutions are forming a unified front against the government’s extraordinary attack on their independence. The statement, published early on Tuesday by…
The number of British households stealing about £1.5bn of gas and electricity every year is expected to rise as energy bill bad debts continue to set new records, according to fuel poverty campaigners. The energy industry has warned that “desperate” households who are unable to pay their bills are increasingly resorting to tampering with their…