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| | | | 09/06/2025 Trump sends armed troops into LA; how data brokers get your number; Alcaraz wins epic French Open final |
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| | | Good morning. There are fears over rising authoritarianism in the US after Donald Trump deployed armed national guard troops on the streets of Los Angeles against protests over immigration raids. Meanwhile, Victorian Labor MP Emma Vulin tells us why being diagnosed with motor neurone disease isn’t going to derail her drive to see the state’s voluntary assisted dying laws changed. Carlos Alcaraz has emerged triumphant against Jannik Sinner after a men’s French Open final clash for the ages at Roland-Garros. Plus: the King’s birthday honours list has been revealed, and there’s an ex-PM on it. |
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| ‘I’m not done’ | Diagnosed with motor neurone disease, Victorian MP Emma Vulin still has a lot to achieve. She tells Benita Kolovos about how she wants to help usher in changes to the state’s voluntary assisted dying laws. | Analysis | A year and a half out from its opening, Western Sydney International is looking more and more like an airport. As it nears takeoff, Elias Visontay asks: will the airlines and people come? | King’s birthday honours | Longtime ABC radio host Phillip Adams joins Scott Morrison, movie-makers Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin, and former Women’s Weekly editor Deborah Hutton among award recipients. | Tech geopolitics | The US cutting academic research and targeting international students is a “great gift” to China in the global artificial intelligence race, says Australian former OpenAI board member Helen Toner. | WFH ban | The Coalition won’t revisit Peter Dutton’s controversial policy to ban working from home – dumped during the election campaign – because “happy workers tend to be more productive”. |
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| Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode 1 Three years ago, British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous defender Bruno Pereira vanished while on a reporting trip near Brazil’s remote Javari valley. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, investigates what happened to them in the first episode of a new six-part investigative podcast series. | | |
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| Millions of Australian voters have endured a flood of political spam emails and text messages. Political parties have no obligation to reveal how they find your data, and there is no way to opt out. Josh Taylor looks at the shadowy world of data brokers – and one woman’s mission to sift through the labyrinthine web of companies buying and selling information on the public. |
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| An international club where dull people meet online to share the tedium of everyday lives is immensely popular. The Dull Men’s Club is a place to celebrate the mundane, the quotidian. It is a gentle antidote to pouting influencers and the often toxic internet; a bastion of civility; a polite clarion call to reclaim the ordinary. And, as Susan Chenery discovers, for one Australian man it’s also a place of poignant connection. |
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What’s happening today | King’s birthday | It is a public holiday in NSW, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Northern Territory and ACT. | Tony awards | Six Australians are nominated in the 2025 Tony awards being held in New York today, including the actor Sarah Snook. |
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Brain teaser | And finally, here are the Guardian’s crosswords to keep you entertained throughout the day. Until tomorrow. | |
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