Taylor’s hardline immigration plan drags Australian politics further to the right – and it’s all upside for One Nation 06. October 2026 (09:26) Coalition leader’s proposal goes further than Peter Dutton’s 2025 election promise and beyond even Pauline Hanson’s bottom lineGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastWith Angus Taylor’s hardline immigration policy unveiled on Tuesday, voters have a new measure of Pauline Hanson’s success in dragging politics further to the right.Taylor’s plan will cut 60,000 more people from net overseas migration (Nom) than the reductions proposed by Peter Dutton just before the last election. Dutton wanted to take Nom down to about 160,000 people a year, while Taylor’s plan goes far further, beyond even Hanson’s bottom line of 130,000 people. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Israeli ambassador to Australia says he hopes for return to ‘traditional friendship’ on October 7 anniversary eve 06. October 2026 (09:00) Relations have soured between the two countries over a number of issues since 2023, but Hillel Newman says a ‘reset’ is possibleGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastIsrael’s ambassador to Australia says the third anniversary of October 7 is an opportunity for both countries to return to “traditional friendship”.But, in the lead-up to commemorations on Wednesday marking Hamas’ terror attack, leaders of Australia’s Palestinian community say the federal government should do more to help the diaspora suffering since the war on Gaza.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s Politics, really newsletter here Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Keeping up with the Bolsonaros: Flávio’s surprise first-round election win heralds rise of a political dynasty 06. October 2026 (09:00) Four members of disgraced ex-president Jair Bolsonaro’s family have been elected to office, most notably his wife and son Flávio, who won the first round of voting to be Brazil’s new presidentThe weekend’s elections in Brazil not only put Jair Bolsonaro’s eldest son, Flávio Bolsonaro, in the lead in the presidential race, but also underscored how far the former president has come in building a political dynasty.As his far-right senator son heads into a runoff against the leftist incumbent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a sweeping far-right victory in congressional races also secured seats for Jair Bolsonaro’s wife, two of his sons and one of his brothers. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
A medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time? 06. October 2026 (09:00) Researchers argue incorrect binding of Voynich manuscript radically changes ideas about its drawings and indecipherable textIt has been called the world’s most mysterious manuscript: a medieval set of pages filled with botanical drawings, astronomical diagrams, pictures of nude women and indecipherable text. Claimed at various times to be a book in a lost language, a musical score, an instruction manual or just an elaborate hoax, the so-called Voynich manuscript’s true meaning has defied cryptographers and codebreakers for centuries.Now, new research offers an explanation for why a scholarly consensus over this enduring puzzle has been so hard to come by: not only because its truth is so profoundly mysterious – but because everyone has been reading its pages in the wrong order. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Badenoch calls for UK ‘Iron Dome’ missile defence system - UK politics live 06. October 2026 (08:59) Conservatives plan ‘new integrated air and missile defence system to protect Britain from attack – in essence, a British “Iron Dome”’Q: You say your Iron Dome will protect the whole of the UK, and bases abroad. But Sir Richard Barrons, the former general, has said that a proper air defence like this would cost up to £100bn.Badenoch says Barrons is referring to an Israel-style Iron Dome.It’s not going to be exactly like the Irone Dome. We haven’t called it an Iron Dome. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
