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YouTube star Ms Rachel has said she is matching rapper Macklemore’s $1m donation to organisations supporting Palestinians, calling on other public figures to follow suit. Macklemore, who was fired as the opening act on Ed Sheeran’s tour, pledged to donate the entirety of his earnings from the tour to several organisations focused on the Palestinian people.

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American troops need to prepare for combat not only in Earth’s orbit but around the moon, Donald Trump’s top military adviser said on Wednesday, looking ahead to a new frontier in warfare after the US revealed for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space.

Read the full story: www.theguardian.com/science/2026/sep/16/us-space-m…

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Guardian Australia

Peering down into a giant stainless steel flask in a shed in rural Australia, three smaller containers can be seen through a haze of liquid nitrogen vapour. Inside are the frozen bodies of people who, before their death, paid handsomely to be cryogenically frozen in the hope of one day being brought back to life. ⁠
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The company is selling people “a chance of life extension”, and their seven "patients" are suspended head-down in liquid nitrogen at -196C (-321F). The gamble costs more than $200,000. Experts say there’s no way it will work.⁠
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Guardian Australia

"The horror warnings about Australia’s 'collapsing' housing market really are quite stupid – and very much in bad faith," writes Greg Jericho. "In every single state the average dwelling price was higher in June this year than a year ago … in Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane, the median price of houses has more than doubled in six years.

"Whenever we hear anyone, whether they be an economist seeking an AFR column or a wannabe comedy-influencer seeking a spot on Sky After Dark, talking about the fall in house prices and the end of time, we really do need to calm the hell down. … the 'scary' projections about how far house prices would fall would take prices in Sydney merely back to 2023 levels. In Brisbane the projected fall wouldn’t even get you back to the price they were at the end of last year!

"The changes in the budget are working as expected and desired. And if anyone thinks they are about to destroy the wealth of Australians, they should think back to 2021 and remember that no one thought housing was cheap then."

Read the full piece and see all of Greg's graphs: www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2026/sep/…

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EXCLUSIVE: The US now has access to more than 100 of Australia’s military bases – could it drag the country unwillingly into war? ► www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/…

Research by the Nautilus Institute has revealed what some analysts have labelled a 'colonisation' of Australia by the United States – more than half of the military bases in Australia have either US military or military corporate access.

See a map of all the US military bases in Australia, including Pine Gap in the Northern Territory, the highly secretive joint Australian-US satellite communications and signals intelligence surveillance base established by the CIA in 1966.

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Elon Musk is sowing 'deliberate division' via his social media platform X that will be catastrophic unless regulated, the mother of one of the 14 confirmed children fathered by the world’s richest man has warned.

In Musk, a new documentary by veteran film-maker Alex Gibney, former Maga influencer Ashley St Clair says Musk told her in a text message he wanted to have a child with her because he needed to have 'a legion of children before the civil war'.

The couple had a son in 2024 but have since separated. St Clair says Musk’s team offered her a $40m lump-sum payment and a monthly stipend of $100,000 in return for her signing a non-disclosure agreement but withdrew the offer after she refused to sign it.

Read the full story about Ashley St Clair and Elon Musk: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/08/elon-musk-ash…

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Guardian Australia

Blanche d’Alpuget, Australian writer and widow of former prime minister Bob Hawke, has died at the age of 82.

D’Alpuget was an acclaimed writer, whose work includes the highly regarded biography of Hawke which won the New South Wales Premier’s Award.

Her final statement was shared with the ABC by her family.

“Our highest calling and greatest achievement is love, the rule of life. Love one another.”

Read more: www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/09/bla…

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Guardian Australia

'Teaching about respectful relationships in schools? How dare women! Matt Canavan reckons feminism and woke genderism push young men toward the manosphere', writes First Dog on the Moon

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A woman has been buried in a coffin made from mushrooms in an eco-friendly first for Australia. The casket, grown from mycelium and hemp fibres, is grown in mould in a climate-controlled room, taking just a week to fully form. Once buried, it takes just 45 days to break down, enriching the soil in the process.

Read the full story: www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/07/aus…

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Exclusive: US-controlled weapons corporations and forces have control or access to more than 100 facilities across the continent, which some analysts describe as a ‘colonisation’ of Australia’s military.
Watch our video report ▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkia6...

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