This is such a great piece from Mostafa Rachwani A day at the beach: ‘Underwater I felt free from the politics of my existence for the first time’ theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Thread: I've spoken with more than a dozen women who have had negative – sometimes terrifying – experiences after meeting captains through popular sailing websites. Their claims include sexual assault & harassment, while others were made to feel unsafe. theguardian.com/society/2023/j…

"Often when there are mass deaths, families struggle with their relative being reduced to a statistic. In China, few were even given that courtesy." ‘It was all for nothing’: Chinese count cost of Xi’s snap decision to let Covid rip Helen Davidson theguardian.com/world/2023/jan…

I'm off to have a baby. The Pacific Project will continue under the wonderful direction of the Guardian Aus foreign desk. Email them at [email protected] with ideas, tips and pitches.

“Australia is living with the legacy of these brutal policies: the broken lives of those detained, and an Australian population reckoning with this having been deliberately done, in their name and with their money.” from ⁦⁦Ben Doherty⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Poking my head up from maternity leave to give this extraordinary and very beautiful bit of journalism a plug. Photos and reporting by the unfailingly impressive ⁦Kalolaine Uechtritz Fainu⁩ Facing extinction, Tuvalu considers the digital clone of a country theguardian.com/world/2023/jun…

Time to become a republic

Another excellent overview of today's public gender pay gap reporting in Guardian Australia from Kate Lyons theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…

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New from me and Jenny Valentish theguardian.com/australia-news…

Taylor Auerbach arrives to give evidence at the Federal Court in Sydney.

Those who burn brightest, burn fastest. Liz Truss says in book Queen told her to ‘pace yourself’, admits she didn’t listen | theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Lisa Wilkinson addresses huge press pack outside the Federal Court following the finding in the Lehrmann defamation case today.

Mehreen Faruqi and her legal team celebrate outside the Federal Court after a judge found that a tweet about her by Pauline Hanson breached Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act

A pretty amazing first ever Parkrun - running and chatting with Professor Richard Scolyer AO and Katie Nicoll. Thank you for sharing your jog and your thoughts.