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From battlers to basket weavers: a guide to Australian voters.

From battlers to basket weavers: A guide to Australia’s voter types

A rich vocabulary has emerged to describe different voter groups in increasingly complex electorates.

  • Matt Wade

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Scientist Hugh Goold has completed the final stage of an international effort to create a synthetic yeast genome.

Hugh once delivered cheese to the Queen. Now he’s built the key to synthetic life

The first-ever synthetic multicellular organism is ready to come to life after a Sydney breakthrough 10 years in the making.

  • Angus Dalton
On the first week on the campaign trail, the leaders focused on different things.

‘He’s match fit’: Albanese takes out first week of race, but many voters probably didn’t notice

The prime minister has been disciplined while Dutton’s supporters are looking for him to improve.

  • Matthew Knott and Paul Sakkal
Flemington

How housing, hope and, yes, even horses have shaped this suburb

It’s home to Australia’s most famous racecourse, but there is so much more to Flemington.

  • Sophie Aubrey
Owen Cooper stars as 13-year-old Jamie Miller in Adolescence. The series illustrates how vulnerable young boys can be when they fall under the influence of toxic masculinity.

After ‘Adolescence’: How a TV show made Britain confront its problem with lost boys

Boys are falling into a dangerous world full of anger and entitlement, experts say, and it shouldn’t take a TV show to stop it.

  • Rob Harris
Tony Mokbel leaves the Court of Appeal on Friday.

Mokbel: The last chapter is yet to be written

The judicial process around Tony Mokbel makes the Suburban Rail Loop look like a frugal investment and the CFMEU a benevolent organisation.

  • John Silvester
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US President Donald Trump, left, and Howard Lutnick, US commerce secretary last month.

New world order: Trump’s tariff attack sparks global recession fears

His trade secretary says a recession would be “worth it” to restructure the US economy, while Trump plays it down but admits there could be bumps.

  • Michael Koziol
Concorde planes in Australia.

One April day, when a crazy dream got two cities flying high

Con artists, scammers and the cynical know how to make the gullible suffer. But on April Fool’s Day, innocence can turn into shared mirth.

  • Tony Wright
Lynne McGranger has decided that after 33 years it’s time to step back from Home and Away.

‘A real level up’: The confronting encounter that gave Lynne McGranger an insight about on-screen survival

As she prepares to say goodnight, Irene, the Home and Away stalwart, has marked up a rare TV achievement. Just don’t call her a celebrity.

  • Louise Rugendyke

‘The outsiders’: Who’s who in Trump’s new White House

Some are predictable picks for their roles, most are not. Meet the people you’ll be seeing a lot in the next three years.

  • Angus Holland

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