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The Australian aerial photographer Andrew Vukosav takes his beautifully strange photographs of Australian landscapes while flying solo in his Cessna 182 on long journeys into remote terrain.

His plane, named Valerie, has a high-resolution camera fixed to its underbelly to capture landscapes that challenge cliches of the outback.

Vukosav has touched down in the US to showcase his series Longitude Latitude Solitude, which features photos taken over 10 years while logging 560 hours in the air.

📷: Andrew Vukosav

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After 13 years in senior leadership roles, including a decade as editor, Lenore Taylor has decided to leave Guardian Australia.

Lenore is one of Australia’s most respected journalists. She was a founding senior staff member of Guardian Australia when it launched in May 2013, and as political editor she played a crucial role in its early and ongoing success, bringing a quarter of a century of federal press gallery experience to the role.

Lenore says, ‘I’ve been musing on this decision for some time. But there’s always been another challenge, another big story or another reason to defer it. There’s always the next thing in a job that is so utterly exhilarating and all-consuming. But it is also utterly exhausting. Ten years is a long time to work at this pace. It leaves little time to care for yourself or for those you love. So, for many reasons, I have decided it’s time to pass the baton’

‘Leading Guardian Australia’s coverage and nurturing and building such a brilliant and dedicated editorial team over the past 10 years has been an honour, a challenge and a lot of fun. I am so very proud of what we have achieved and the service we have provided to our readers.’

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Police arrest and use pepper spray on people demonstrating against the visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog, who is in Australia until 12 February in response to the Bondi beach terrorist attack in December. The violent and chaotic scenes in Sydney came after thousands gathered lawfully near the Town Hall on Monday evening, before attempting to march to state parliament in defiance of a NSW law that effectively bans protesters from marching in designated areas.

1. Police detain a protester during the rally in Sydney. Photograph: Izhar Khan/Getty Images

2. Early on Monday evening, protesters gathered peacefully outside the Sydney Town Hall in the CBD. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

3. The protest in Sydney took place as Isaac Herzog addressed a major event about 650 metres away at the International Convention and Exhibition Centre in Sydney honouring the victims of the Bondi beach terror attack. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

4. Former Australian of the Year Grace Tame addresses the Town Hall crowd. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

5. The violent and chaotic scenes came after thousands gathered outside Sydney’s Town Hall. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

6. A protester is assisted after police deployed pepper spray to disperse demonstrators. Photograph: Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images

7. Jordan Ryan Hennessy has his eyes washed out after being pepper sprayed by police. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

8. A woman is detained by members of NSW police outside the Sydney Town Hall. Photograph: Darrian Traynor/Getty Images

9. Protesters create a protective circle around a young man as he receives assistance after being pepper sprayed in Sydney on Monday evening. Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images

10. Police said 27 people were arrested in Sydney. A number of protesters were treated after being pepper sprayed. According to police, 10 officers were assaulted, but none of those assaults were serious. Photograph: Flavio Brancaleone/AAP

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Jon Kudelka, the Australian political cartoonist, has died at the age of 53.

His wife, Margaret Kudelka, announced the news in a statement on Monday: 'We are sad to tell you that our beloved, brilliant Jon Kudelka died peacefully in South Hobart on Sunday afternoon, surrounded by his family and friends.'

Kudelka, whose work was published by the Australian, the Saturday Paper and the Hobart Mercury, was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour in 2024.

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Snowbanks reach shoulder height and tourists visit giant icy sculptures of baseball players as the northern half of the country is blanketed in white



1. A woman walks between waist-high banks of snow, near a bus terminal in Aomori city. Photograph: Philip Fong/AFP/Getty Images

2. A man walks through the snow with an umbrella in Aizuwakamatsu. Photograph: Nicolas Datiche/SIPA/Shutterstock

3. Tourists in traditional dress visit Kanazawa Castle in Ishikawa prefecture. Photograph: Philip Fong/AFP/Getty Images

4. A pedestrian walks outside a snow-covered train station building in Aomori city, Aomori prefecture. Photograph: Philip Fong/AFP/Getty Images

5. A woman on a snowy footpath in Aizuwakamatsu carries an umbrella. Photograph: Nicolas Datiche/SIPA/Shutterstock

6. Cars and pedestrians seen on the road as snow falls in Sapporo City. For the first time in 21 years, January snowfall in Sapporo has exceeded one metre. Photograph: Rodrigo Reyes Marin/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

7. Staff members shovel snow off rail tracks at Shin Aomori station in Aomori city. Local train services were suspended due to heavy snow in Aomori prefecture. Photograph: Philip Fong/AFP/Getty Images

8. Snow sculptures depicting Japanese baseball player Shohei Ohtani, right, who plays with the Los Angeles Dodgers in US Major League Baseball, and others are displayed at the Sapporo Snow Festival. Photograph: JIJI Press/AFP/Getty Images

9 & 10. Members of the Japan Ground Self-Defence Force’s 5th infantry regiment carrying out snow removal work in a town in Aomori prefecture. Photograph: Japan’s Ministry of Defense/AFP/Getty Images

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Police have charged a 31-year-old man with terrorism over the alleged attempted bombing of an Invasion Day protest in Perth.

In a joint press conference on Thursday, the Western Australian premier, Roger Cook, said it was the first time such charges had been laid in that state, but the incident must be condemned “in the strongest possible terms and we must call this for what it is”.

📷: Cole Baxter

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What is a cash rate? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvgVH...

The Reserve Bank has hiked rates for the first time in over two years, with mortgage holders to bear the brunt of dealing with an unexpected jump in inflation through the second half of 2025.

The RBA monetary policy board at the end of its two-day meeting announced the cash rate target would lift to 3.85%, from 3.6%. The widely anticipated decision marks the end of the shortest rate-cutting cycle in the RBA’s modern history, following three reductions in the cash rate target in February, May and August of last year.

The quarter of a percentage point increase will increase the interest cost on a $600,000 home loan by $90 a month, bringing the monthly repayment to $3782, according to Canstar.

Some experts leading into the decision warned that a rate hike would be an overreaction to the recent uptick in inflation, and that it risked derailing an economic recovery.

Reporting by Patrick Commins.

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Musicians stepped out in ruffles, lace and trains – and the red carpet saw the return of the ‘free the nipple’ movement.

1. Sabrina Carpenter sparkles in a Valentino gown with a beaded bodice and a frilled, layered skirt. She’s nominated for six Grammys, including record of the year, album of the year and song of the year. Photograph: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The Recording Academy

2. Chappell Roan says it with her whole chest. The musician arrived on the red carpet wearing a floor-length covering, before removing it to reveal her Mugler gown, which is held up with nipple rings. Photograph: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy

3. FKA twigs looks positively witchy in her custom Paolo Carzana gown. At the premiere ceremony, the artist claimed the Grammy for best dance/electronic album for her record Eusexua. Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters

4. Tyla on the Grammys red carpet. The South African singer-songwriter is nominated for best African music performance for her song Push 2 Start. Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters

5. Lola Young gets the work-life balance right in these Vivienne Westwood trackpants and jumper, layered over a collared shirt and oversized striped tie. Photograph: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The Recording Academy

6. Huntrix singers Rei Ami, Ejae, and Audrey Nuna show their sartorial range, from sensible to sculptural. Their trio are the vocalists behind the KPop Demon Hunters song Golden, which is nominated for song of the year. Photograph: Lester Cohen/Getty Images for The Recording Academy

7. British singer-songwriter Olivia Dean poses on the red carpet in a feathered and sequinned Chanel dress. Dean is nominated for best new artist. Photograph: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The Recording Academy

8. Doechii’s hazardous purple train is a cause for high anxiety – but will she overcome it by taking home the gong for record of the year? Photograph: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The Recording Academy

9. Global girl group Katseye make their Grammys Debut (it’s a song) in six different versions of the same design by Ludovic de Saint Sernin. The group is nominated for best new artist, and lost out in the best duo/group performance category to Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters

10. Yungblud and Sharon Osbourne mug for the cameras. The musician brought Osbourne onstage while accepting the Grammy for covering Black Sabbath’s song Changes. Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters

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Bushfires, marches and a summer of sport – Guardian Australia’s best photos from around the country this month.

1. Journalist Claire Keenan takes up ocean swimming for the first time. ‘I’ve swum and squealed alongside enormous blue gropers, tiny stingrays, silver and striped fish and even a Port Jackson shark,’ she writes. Photograph: Jessica Hromas /The Guardian

2. A ‘Shark sighted’ sign on North Steyne beach. Several Sydney northern beaches were closed to the public after multiple shark attacks along the NSW coast. Photograph: George Chan /Getty Images

3. Sheep run through a paddock as bushfire smoke rises on nearby hills at Longwood, Victoria. Across the region houses were reduced to warped steel, with brick chimneys often the only thing left standing. Photograph: Steve Womersley /The Guardian

4. Artist Nina Sanadze is working with the Sydney Jewish Museum to transform the floral tributes from the Bondi beach attack into an artwork. Bec Lorrimer /The Gaurdian

5. People take part in an Invasion Day march through Sydney on 26 January. Photograph: Jeremy Piper / Reuters

6. Steve Smith falls to avoid a short delivery on day three of the fifth Ashes Test between Australia and England at the SCG. Photograph: David Gray /AFP/Getty Images

7. A procession of the world’s largest monumental bronze sculpture of St Charbel’s face moves through the streets of Punchbowl to St Charbel’s Church, before being placed permanently on the monastery building in Sydney. Photograph: Christopher Khoury /APA/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

8. At 17, Niki vowed to give her newborn son, born blind and profoundly disabled, the best life she could. Thirty years on, she and Jimmy are travelling Australia in a Toyota Troopy, balancing hard-won freedom and constant care. Photograph: Brook Mitchell

9. Tristan Devers dunks the ball during an NBL match between the Brisbane Bullets and Adelaide 36ers at the Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre. Photograph: Matt Roberts /Getty images

10. Elvis fans gather to celebrate the king of rock’n’roll at the Parkes Elvis festival. The festival, which can triple the NSW town’s population, is marking its 33rd year with the theme of Love Me Tender. Photograph: Stephanie Gardiner /AAP

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A late attempt to add a public holiday to create an Anzac Day long weekend, falling into line with Western Australia and the ACT, is being considered by the New South Wales government.

The premier, Chris Minns, on Thursday said his government is in talks to create a new public holiday, accounting for Anzac Day falling on a Saturday.

Remembrance services will be held nationwide on 25 April but only people in Western Australia and the ACT will get an additional public holiday on the next Monday.

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