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Lidia Thorpe: “The country doesn’t see the really generous, kind and caring person she is,” says Thorpe’s friend, Sissy Austin.

‘When someone says something nice to me, I just burst into tears’: Inside the mind of Lidia Thorpe

The independent MP knows she’s both loved and loathed, including within her own community – but wants to make it clear she’s more than “an angry black woman”.

  • Melissa Fyfe

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Defence contractor under police investigation over threat to bomb Burgertory outlet

A social media post under the profile of an army veteran-turned-defence industry expert suggested parking bombs outside a restaurant owned by prominent Palestinian activist Hash Tayeh.

  • Chris Vedelago
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen speaks in Paris on Sunday.

Marine Le Pen evokes Martin Luther King Jr as Trump criticises ‘witch hunt’

Before thousands of supporters in Paris, the far-right leader likened her battle against a court ruling to America’s struggle for civil rights.

  • Rob Harris
Protesters on the National Mall in Washington, DC, rally against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Angry protesters from New York to Alaska assail Trump and Musk in ‘Hands Off!’ rallies

The day of demonstrations is the biggest yet by an opposition movement trying to regain its momentum after the shock of Trump’s first weeks in office.

  • Dave Collins
Destroyed Teslas after a fire at a company’s dealership in Rome, Italy, on Monday.

Teslas burn in Rome, Stockholm as protests escalate

The cars have become targets for vandalism across several countries in response to Elon Musk’s right-wing activism and his influence on Donald Trump.

  • Paolo Chiriatti and Philippe Leroy Beaulieu
An anti-Woolworths development demonstrator confronts a YIMBY heckler at a community rally in Elsternwick.

Elsternwick erupts: NIMBYs v YIMBYs as VCAT bypass fuels local fury

Woolworths has sought to overturn a VCAT judgment and applied to Victoria’s planning minister to approve a 148-apartment housing proposal in Elsternwick.

  • Adam Carey
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Just Stop Oil protesters threw tinned soup at Vincent Van Gogh’s famous 1888 work Sunflowers, then glued themselves to the wall at the National Gallery in London in 2022.

After throwing soup at Van Gogh and painting Stonehenge, agents of chaos say they’re done

The group of protesters, which included women in their 80s, grabbed the headlines with disruptive stunts that saw them arrested 3300 times in three years.

  • Rob Harris
Palestinians attend a rally calling for an end to the war, in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip.

‘We’ve had enough’: Rare show of dissent against Hamas in Gaza

Palestinians tend to blame Israel for the death, destruction and hunger that the war in Gaza has inflicted. But some blame Hamas, too, for starting it in the first place.

  • Iyad Abuheweila, Abu Bakr Bashir, Aaron Boxerman and Malachy Browne
Businessman and pro-Palestinian activist Hash Tayeh, of the Burgertory chain, at a protest in Melbourne.

Insults and arson: How one man’s chants could define free speech

A fight over a restaurant owner’s “insulting” chant in the streets could go all the way to the High Court.

  • Michael Bachelard
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio

‘Violation of civil rights’: Emboldened by Trump, US Capitol rioters seek retribution

Not content with being released from prison, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and others charged over the January 6 riots are determined to prove they are the victims.

  • Amelia Adams and Garry McNab

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