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Auditor general says state agencies forked out close to $200m on faulty imported masks and ventilatorsGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe New South Wales government underspent on personal protective equipment and mental health services and forked out close to $200m on faulty imported masks and ventilators as part of the state’s $7.5bn pandemic expenditure, a review has found.The auditor general...

Condition of rodents with spinal cord damage improved after they had lung disease drug, say researchersMice with spinal cord injuries have shown remarkable recovery after being given a drug initially developed for people with lung disease, researchers have revealed, saying the treatment could soon be tested on humans.It is thought there are around 2,500 new spinal cord injuries in the UK every year, with...

Billionaire says report is ‘utterly untrue’ after allegation he paid $250k in 2018 to settle claimElon Musk has denounced as “utterly untrue” claims in a news report that he sexually harassed a flight attendant on a private jet in 2016.Business Insider reported earlier on Thursday that the billionaire’s SpaceX paid $250,000 (£200,000) in 2018 to settle a sexual harassment claim from an unnamed private...

Roy Morgan poll puts Labor ahead; Greens hopeful of picking up Senate seats; eligibility for telephone voting formally changed; health authorities give monkeypox update ; Julia Gillard says Labor would be ‘a government for women’; at least 52 Covid deaths recorded. Follow all the day’s developmentsWho will win? The seats Labor and the Coalition need for victory in Australia’s 2022 federal electionAustralia’s first probable...

President accuses Russia of ‘deliberate attempt to kill as many Ukrainians as possible’; government websites attacked by pro-Russian hackers, Italian police sayPutin’s daughter flew to Munich ‘more than 50 times’ in two yearsRussia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 86 of the invasionUS accuses Russia of holding global food supplies ‘hostage’Pete Buttigieg says US backs new Marshall plan to rebuild UkraineSerhiy Gaidai, Ukraine’s governor...

Push for petition that would mandate safety protections, limit workloads, set wage standards, and extend worker retention rulesSonia Molina Sanchez, worked as housekeeper at the celebrity hotspot hotel Chateau Marmont for 10 years. She will never forget the night she was sexually harassed by a guest.“I knocked on a guest’s door and went inside, and as soon as I went inside something didn’t feel...

Doug Mastriano promoted Trump’s voter fraud myth – if he becomes governor, could he block a result he doesn’t like?As Donald Trump tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election, there were few officials more willing to help than Doug Mastriano, then a little-known Pennsylvania state senator.Mastriano, a retired army colonel first elected in 2019, regularly communicated with Trump in the weeks after...

Ad agency agrees deal after rejecting four offers by deputy chair Vin Murria’s investment vehicleDigital marketing group Next Fifteen has struck a £310m deal to buy M&C Saatchi, gazumping tech entrepreneur Vin Murria’s attempt to buy the ad agency.London-listed Next Fifteen, which has a £1.2bn market valuation, has tabled a cash and share offer for M&C Saatchi that it aims to seal through a...

Plant will begin operating a year later than planned because of impact of Covid-19The new nuclear power station being built at Hinkley Point in Somerset will start operating a year later than planned and will cost an extra £3bn, it has been announced.The French energy company EDF published the findings of a review into the cost and schedule of the power station taking account...

Deputy PM says there should be transparency about who breached Covid rules in civil servant’s reportToday’s politics news – live updatesThe UK deputy prime minister, Dominic Raab, has called for ministers who were fined for breaching Covid regulations to be named by the senior civil servant tasked with investigating the Partygate scandal.Scotland Yard’s inquiries were closed on Thursday with a total of 126 fixed...

Part of April increase may be down to people staying in to save money, says ONSConsumers in Great Britain carried on spending last month despite the highest inflation rate in 40 years, providing high street and online retailers with a surprise boost.The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said there was a 1.4% monthly jump in retail sales in April but said the trend was...

Woman known as JC told Dawson’s murder trial she felt obliged to move in with him and had wanted to return to her life as a 17-year-oldFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingChris Dawson’s former student and babysitter has admitted working on a book titled The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and His Wife,...

Nine-strong team led by close Biden ally will visit Brussels, Dublin and London in significant intervention on division over NI protocolOne of Joe Biden’s closest allies is due to arrive in London on Saturday as part of an influential US congressional delegation seeking to calm tensions over Northern Ireland.The nine-strong delegation includes Democratic and Republican delegates from the House of Representatives and Senate including...

Michael German, who infiltrated white supremacist groups in the 1990s, says the FBI continues to underplay the scope of the threatThe Federal Bureau of Investigation is failing to address the rising scourge of white supremacist violence despite stark warnings that such attacks pose the greatest domestic terrorism threat in the US, a leading authority on law enforcement has told the Guardian.Michael German, a former...

Nimco Ali says call for public sexual harassment of women to be made a crime has received ‘pushback’The UK government’s independent adviser on tackling violence against women and girls has suggested her calls for street harassment to be made a crime are being blocked.Nimco Ali, a close friend of Boris and Carrie Johnson, told the BBC’s Political Thinking with Nick Robinson that her proposal...

So far we’ve had a dugong, a crocodile, a turtle, betting agencies and multiple polls try to predict the result of the 2022 election. Now it’s your turn to tell us who will winFollow our Australian election live blog for the latest updatesRead our latest election briefing and listen to today’s campaign catchup podcastDugong sees red: Pig the sea cow predicts Labor will win...

Failures in triple-zero system blamed for 18 of the deaths, Ambulance Victoria chief tells budget estimates hearingGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingTwenty-one Victorians have died waiting for an ambulance over the past six months, a budget estimates hearing has been told.Failures in the triple-zero system have been blamed for 18 of the deaths with three attributed to paramedics not getting...

Robbie McEwen, the former cyclist and now commentator, says he’s ‘genuinely sorry’ for using a homophobic slur during a broadcast, which he says was ‘unintentional’Robbie McEwen, the former cyclist and now commentator, has apologised for using a homophobic slur during a broadcast of stage 10 of the Giro d’Italia.The Australian three-time Tour de France points classification winner, who retired from professional cycling in 2012,...

Hungarian leader also tells Republicans at Budapest conference that shows like Tucker Carlson’s should be broadcast ‘24/7’The Hungarian leader, Viktor Orbán, has told a conference of US conservatives that the path to power required having their own media outlets, calling for shows like Tucker Carlson’s to be broadcast “24/7”.Orbán, recently elected to a fourth term, laid out a 12-point blueprint to achieving and consolidating...

Stanley in Falkland Islands also becomes city after contest marking Queen’s platinum jubilee yearDoncaster, Milton Keynes and Stanley in the Falkland Islands have been awarded city status, approved by the Queen, in a competition being held as part of the platinum jubilee celebrations, the Cabinet Office has announced.The eight winners of the 2022 Platinum Jubilee Civic Honours competition, also included Bangor in Northern Ireland,...

Blinken calls on Moscow to end blockade of Ukraine ports as Medvedev says Russia is ready to allow the flow of food when sanctions liftSee all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageWhat we know on day 86 of the invasionThe United States has accused Russia of holding the world’s food supply hostage amid growing fears of famine in developing countries, as a former Russian president warned...

Emails reveal the ‘extent’ which Carlson was willing to turn on Biden’s son since the 2020 election, Washington Post saysAs Tucker Carlson asked Hunter Biden for help getting his son into an elite Washington university in 2014, the Fox News host’s wife, Susie, reportedly wrote in an email: “Tucker and I have the greatest respect and admiration for you. Always!”Since the 2020 election, however,...

High winds have hampered operations as crews fight blazes in Texas, Colorado and New MexicoMore than 5,000 firefighters have battled multiple wildland blazes in dry, windy weather across the south-west, including a fire that has destroyed dozens of structures in west Texas and another picking up steam again in New Mexico.Evacuation orders remained in place on Thursday for residents near the wildfires in Texas,...

Exclusive: Transportation secretary says there is global support for reconstruction effort to help recovery from Russian invasionRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesA leading figure in the Biden administration has backed a recovery programme for Ukraine in the style of the Marshall plan, which helped rebuild Europe after the second world war.Pete Buttigieg, the US transportation secretary, said there was plenty of political will at home and...