Business leaders and decarbonisation experts say a high level of collaboration and coordination is needed for transition

The regional powerhouses of Australia’s industrial economy could slash their greenhouse gas emissions by more than 80% and become centres for multibillion-dollar investments in renewable energy, according to a report backed by some of the country’s biggest companies.

Bringing down emissions from producing iron, steel, aluminium, chemicals and liquefied natural gas is seen as one of the most challenging parts of Australia’s efforts to reach net zero.

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Exclusive: Anthony Albanese committed Labor to signing the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons while in opposition

Australia will attend – as an observer – a UN meeting of countries that have outlawed nuclear weapons; parties to a treaty Anthony Albanese championed in opposition and committed Labor to ratifying in government.

Government backbencher Susan Templeman’s attendance at the meeting in Vienna on Monday comes as a group of 55 former Australian ambassadors and high commissioners have written an open letter to the prime minister urging the government to sign up to the treaty, which outright prohibits the development, testing, production and use of nuclear weapons.

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Labor was more popular with women, ANU study finds, but difference ‘mostly due to a higher vote for the Greens’

Labor was propelled to victory over Scott Morrison by women, under-55s and those with higher levels of education, with people in the latter two groups most likely to have abandoned the Coalition since the 2019 election.

Those are the findings of a survey of 3,500 voters by the Australian National University and researchers at the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, released on Monday.

Exclusive: state budget funds to go towards boosting number of charging points in apartment blocks and on streets

The New South Wales government will invest $38m to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles by building more charging sites, including for apartment buildings and roadsides.

The extra funds, to be unveiled in Tuesday’s budget, will bring to $633m the money being spent on NSW’s strategy aimed at ensuring half of all car sales by 2030-31 are electric.

Energy Security Board says fossil fuel generators might need to be paid to stay in business to retain capacity

Coal- and gas-fired power plants could be paid to stay in business to bolster the stability of the main electricity grid and attract enough investment to build the equivalent of 50 times the original Snowy Hydro scheme by 2050, according to a high-level design paper released by the Energy Security Board.

The fossil fuel generators would be required even as Australia continues to decarbonise the electricity sector, the paper released on Monday said.

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Adviser to interior minister gives warning after Amnesty accused Russia of war crimes in country’s second largest city

Ukraine is losing territories and struggling to regain them since Russia began concentrating its military attacks on the country’s east, Ukrainian MP Ivanna Klympush-Tsintzadze has said.

Klympush-Tsintzadze told Sky News that she hopes the military situation in eastern Ukraine will change soon. “Unfortunately, at this particular moment, Russia has gathered all this military capacity in the in the east of the country.

Live updates from Amstelveen (delay to 10am BST start)Barney Ronay: time to give English cricket future it deservesGet in touch! You can email Daniel here or tweet him

We should be good to get our match eventually, but.

Liam Livingstone, then. His 66 off 22 the other day gave him a strike-rate of 300.00, better even that Jos Buttler’s paltry 231.43. There’s a part of me that wonders if he might be worth a Test-match punt at some point (because yes, England are in dire need of some lower-middle order biffing).

As interest grows with TV shows, books and now a major a new exhibition in London, the idea of repairing beloved items is about more than cash

Early in 2020 Claire Catterall, senior curator at London’s Somerset House, began exploring the potential of an exhibition about mending. Inspired by the proliferation of social media hashtags #visiblemending and #mendingmatters, and pop-up repair cafes, she observed a new generation of thrifty fashionistas wanting to preserve clothing using traditional methods and contemporary creativity.

“There was growing interest in the craft of repair,” recalls Catterall. “Artists such as Celia Pym and Bridget Harvey spearheaded an artistic approach to the process, and mending felt relevant to all the conversations about sustainability.”

Josep Maria García got the shock of his life when he found his image with an article that went on to clock up two billion hits

Soon after the pandemic plunged Spain into confinement, Josep Maria García received a panicked call from his brother-in-law.

“He told me not to worry, but that I should google the phrase ‘the worst person you know’,” said García. “I put it in and there I was, everywhere. I scrolled down and it was my face, my face, my face. I thought what is going on?”

The British actor on getting texts from Winona Ryder, researching his character Eddie Munson through the medium of thrash metal and the show’s ‘monster’ final episode

“This year is my year. I can feel it.” This line was said by the character Eddie Munson in the first episode of season four of Netflix’s monster-hit show Stranger Things, but it could easily have been uttered by actor Joseph Quinn.

It takes talent to join a much-loved TV cast in their fourth season and become a fan favourite. This series of Stranger Things has set Netflix records by hitting No 1 in 83 countries and is more watched than Bridgerton. But as the charismatic but vulnerable Munson, 28-year-old Quinn has made a splash. He only joined Instagram in May and already has more than 1.6 million followers.

Police say group was planning ‘extreme forms’ of protest, activists say police actions were ‘insane overreach’

New South Wales police have defended their raid on a group of climate protesters in north-west Sydney on Sunday, alleging that the group was planning “extreme forms” of protest and acted aggressively towards officers.

On Sunday morning, police deployed in significant numbers to a property at Colo, in Sydney’s north-west, after a confrontation with Blockade Australia, a group that caused blockades at Port Botany, the city’s major port, in March.

The libel claim brought by the Brexit campaigner took its toll. But the judgment offered personal relief and hope for public interest journalism

Last week, after a nearly six-month wait, I learned that I’d won the libel claim brought against me by Arron Banks, the main funder of the Leave.EU campaign. It has been a long, brutal haul and the stress over the three years since it began has been extreme. I’m not so much relieved as completely numb.

I had been braced to lose and I knew exactly what would happen if I had. The headlines I would face, the accusation that I was – what my detractors have always claimed – a “conspiracist”, the social media shitstorm that would ensue. I had no doubt about how devastating it would be because every step of this litigation has felt as if it was aimed at trying to crush me. In large part, it’s succeeded.

The socialite’s defense team seek a reduced sentence by depicting a woman made vulnerable to Epstein’s by a domineering father

When Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial neared its end, the British socialite’s lawyers had their work cut out for them. For weeks, prosecutors had painted Maxwell as a member of the elite who carried out unspeakable acts to maintain her charmed life with the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.

They presented abundant evidence that Maxwell lured girls, some just 14 years old, into Epstein’s orbit for him to sexually abuse – while carrying herself as an untouchable “lady of the house”. In the prosecution’s telling, Maxwell didn’t just do bad things: she was gleefully committed to doing them.

The fuss about a bot’s ‘consciousness’ obscures far more troubling concerns

‘I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person.” So claimed a Google software program, creating a bizarre controversy over the past week in AI circles and beyond.

The programme is called LaMDA, an acronym for Language Model for Dialogue Applications, a project run by Google. The human to whom it declared itself a person was Blake Lemoine, a senior software engineer at Google. He believes that LaMDA is sentient and should be accorded the same rights and courtesies as any other sentient being. It even has preferred pronouns (it/its if you must know). When Google rejected his claims, he published his conversations with LaMDA (or, at least, edited highlights of some conversations) on his blog. At which point, Google suspended him for having made public company secrets and the whole affair became an international cause célèbre.

Seven wounded after motorists protest petrol shortage as government declares two-week school shutdown to conserve fuel

Sri Lanka’s military have opened fire to quell rioting at a fuel station, officials say, as unprecedented queues for petrol and diesel were seen across the bankrupt country.

Troops fired in Visuvamadu, 365km (228 miles) north of Colombo on Saturday night as their guard point was pelted with stones, army spokesperson Nilantha Premaratne said.

Tony Burke aims to make scheme ‘logical’, despite unemployment advocates’ calls for halt to controversial program

The employment minister, Tony Burke, says it is too late to scrap a controversial points-based mutual obligation system for jobseekers, insisting the concept is “right”, but needs tweaking.

Advocates have been calling on the new Albanese government to scrap, or at least pause, the the “points-based activation system” (Pbas), which requires jobseekers to earn 100 “points” through job search or other activities including study, training, hours of employment or work for the dole.

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State government to fund 40% of purchase for single parents, older singles, nurses, police and teachers

The New South Wales government has announced a shared equity trial to help single parents, older singles, nurses, police and teachers to buy their first home.

The $780m shared equity scheme was announced by the state government on Sunday ahead of its state budget on Tuesday, which will include a broader $2.8bn package to address the housing crisis.

Labor government urged to do more to stop Australian WikiLeaks co-founder’s extradition to US from UK

The Albanese government insists it will not conduct “diplomacy by megaphone” as it faces calls to do more to prevent the extradition of WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange to the US.

On Saturday, the British home secretary, Priti Patel, approved the extradition of Assange to the US, where he is charged with breaching the US Espionage Act and faces up to 175 years in jail if convicted. He has 14 days to appeal the decision.

Beterbiev stops Smith in two rounds to unify three belts at 175lbsChechen-born star keeps knockout streak alive with early winESPN reports Beterbiev will fight England’s Anthony Yarde next

World light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev knocked out American rival Joe Smith Jr inside two rounds on Saturday to add the WBO title to his WBC and IBF belts.

The unbeaten 37-year-old Canada-based Russian scored three knockdowns and had Smith in deep trouble with just under a minute remaining in round two before the fight was stopped.

Bol broke the 800-metre Australian record for the third time in ParisThe brilliant Perth-based half-miler ran 44.00 at Diamond League race

Peter Bol has lowered the Australian 800 metres for the third time and thought for a moment he’d earned a perfect early birthday present for his coach at the Paris Diamond League meeting.

The brilliant half-miler was outpaced for victory on Saturday night by an inspired but controversial finish from home favourite Benjamin Robert, with Bol’s handsome consolation being a new Oceanian landmark of one minute 44.00 seconds for the two-lap event.

Warlpiri delegation from Yuendumu, north-west of Alice Springs, has collected the seven objects from University of Virginia

Seven sacred Indigenous objects have been returned to central Australia from an American university.

A delegation of Warlpiri men from Yuendumu, north-west of Alice Springs, collected the objects after they were repatriated from the University of Virginia last week.

Government announces concessions to scheme as police arrest at least 260 people and hundreds of train services cancelled due to unrest

Protesters in India’s eastern state of Bihar have damaged public property and ransacked offices in a railway station, expressing outrage at a new military recruitment plan and demanding the government reverse course.

The government of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, has introduced a scheme called Agnipath, or “path of fire”, designed to bring more people into the military on four-year contracts to lower the average age of India’s 1.38 million-strong armed forces.

Liberal leader says Coalition made ‘huge investments’ in renewables when in power and blames states for locking up gas reserves

The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has sought to deflect blame for the national energy crisis, saying there is “fault all round”, while blaming states for locking up gas reserves.

In a wide-ranging interview on the ABC on Sunday, the former defence minister also rejected suggestions he had relied on classified information to claim Australia could access two new Virginia-class submarines from the US by 2030, and held back support for an Indigenous voice to parliament.

Elijah Winnington claims 400m freestyle gold in Budapest finalWomen’s relay win 4x100m gold with fifth-fastest time in history

Elijah Winnington has powered to his first global gold while the all-conquering 4x100m relay women won again to give Australia the perfect flying start to the world swimming championships.

Winnington earned redemption after his Olympic disappointment, speeding to an emphatic victory in the 400m freestyle, the first final of the entire week-long programme in Budapest, on Saturday.

Australian wildcard beaten 4-6 7-6 (7-2) 7-6 (7-4) by Hubert HurkaczKyrgios pounded down 30 aces but was narrowly beaten by world No 12

Nick Kyrgios was upstaged in a battle of the monster servers as Hubert Hurkacz ruined the Australian wildcard’s hopes of reaching a first grass-court final in Halle.

Kyrgios, in such brilliant form all week at the German event that he fancied his maiden final on the green stuff was firmly on the cards, met his match in an almost inevitable tiebreak decider in Saturday’s semi-final, losing 4-6 7-6 (7-2) 7-6 (7-4) to the Pole.

Jon Rahm’s double bogey at the last leaves him one off leadersRory McIlroy three shots off lead after brutal day at Brookline

By Monday morning, there could be plans for a Matt Fitzpatrick statue in Brookline. Success in both the US Amateur Championship and the US Open at the Country Club, which is now within Fitzpatrick’s grasp, would be quite the feat.

Fitzpatrick, who endured a turbulent Sunday at last month’s US PGA Championship, is hot in pursuit of glory on his next major start. The Yorkshireman, whose amateur win came at this illustrious venue in 2013, will start day four in a tie for the lead. At four under par, Fitzpatrick has Will Zalatoris for company. History favours Fitzpatrick.

‘Without a local government voice’ in national cabinet ‘our communities risk being left behind’, Linda Scott says

Local councils will continue to push to be made full members of national cabinet, warning that being invited to one meeting a year falls short of Labor’s commitment.

Linda Scott, president of the Australian Local Government Association, welcomed the foot in the door given to the third tier of government at Friday’s national cabinet meeting, but she said it “will not consider [Labor’s] commitment to have been delivered until ALGA is a full voting member at all national cabinet meetings”.

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A neural network that can transform a text phrase into an artwork is transforming our understanding of creative thinking, but it opens new issues

Want to see a picture of Jesus Christ laughing at a meme on his phone, Donald Trump as the Nevermind baby, or Karl Marx being slimed at the Nikelodeon Kid’s Choice awards?

If you’ve been on Twitter or Instagram in the past couple of weeks, it’s been hard to miss odd-looking formulations of these kinds of scenarios in the form of AI art.

Embedded networks are common in apartment buildings, but leave tenants without the usual consumer protections

Reuben Acciano wasn’t told he’d have to sign up to his new apartment’s embedded power and gas network until the day he signed the lease.

“I was really angry … it wasn’t in the ‘for lease’ ads, [it wasn’t] mentioned by the manager during the walk through,” the Melbourne renter says.

NSW treasurer hopes ambitious reforms and spending will show voters ‘generational change’ in a 12-year-old government

Matt Kean wants to talk about women.

In the week leading up to his first budget as New South Wales treasurer, Kean, who perhaps more than any other figure has come to represent the struggle over the Liberal party’s ideological future, has set his sights on winning over the voters who abandoned the Coalition at last month’s federal election.

Exclusive: Financial services minister Stephen Jones wants complex funds to provide the same data already required of simpler funds

The Albanese government will move to close an eight-year loophole that means seven million people do not have clear information about how their retirement savings are faring.

The minister for financial services, Stephen Jones, says he wants to ensure that complex superannuation funds, which are primarily managed by private companies, are required to provide the same performance data as simple funds.

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After losing 20 years of collected material in Lismore’s floods, the Quandamooka artist reflects on the climate crisis, colonialism and catharsis

The most significant venue of her career was about to host her most important work yet, but Quandamooka artist Megan Cope almost didn’t board the plane to attend its opening night in Paris.

Cope couldn’t find her passport. But that wasn’t the main reason she was on the brink of choosing to stay in her Lismore studio rather than fly off to join a handful of selected artists from around the world displaying their work in the Palais de Tokyo’s Reclaim the Earth exhibition.

Live-action role play can make an ordinary life extraordinary for a couple of hours or days but reintegration is not always easy

For 52 hours, Davide Orazi didn’t break character, not even when retiring to his bunk. In this live-action role play (Larp) called Conscience, based on HBO’s Westworld, he’d been assigned the role of a guest, the type that gets to flaunt their power over the host robots of the amusement park, without consequence.

Ultimately, Orazi found a path of redemption for his man in black, but an added complication came in the form of a romance with another character within the plot – when both he and they were married to other people in real life. “Which is problematic, because your brain doesn’t know,” Orazi tells Guardian Australia. “Now my brain is full of endorphins and I’m basically falling in love with a person that does not exist.”

Solar Victoria fielded 50% higher than usual number of inquiries into power storage amid cold snap across eastern states

Demand for batteries linked to rooftop solar panels has soared in the past month amid energy price rices and the coldest start to winter in decades.

According to Solar Victoria chief executive, Stan Krpan, inquiries into battery rebates in Victoria have spiked in the past two weeks.

Datablog: experts say an increase in testing means high cases have not translated into high hospitalisations

Australia is experiencing some of the highest levels of confirmed influenza cases, fever and cough in the last five years, but this hasn’t translated to an “unprecedented” number of hospitalisations.

Experts say one reason cases increase year-to-year is because testing is becoming more accessible. This is especially so now, after two years of Covid lockdowns and isolation.

A youth justice debate reignited by a tragic hit-and-run weighs harsher punishment against community intervention

Standing at the intersection where their son and his pregnant partner were killed by a drunk driver last year, Russell and Ann Field spoke to the youth justice debate sparked by their deaths.

“Everybody in the community knows that this sentence is inadequate,” Russell Field told reporters on Friday.

Commercial accommodation in parks promotes advocacy for the land, say tour companies, but critics argue it puts wilderness at risk

Mick Ripon has fished from the rugged coastline of NSW’s Ben Boyd national park for the past 45 years. Off the remote rocks of Green Cape, Ripon reeled in his biggest catch, a 68kg (150lb) yellowfin tuna, and even proposed to his wife.

Now he’s racing to stop the construction of multiple huts at Mowarry Point and Hegartys Bay that he says will rob the park of its wilderness appeal.

Peak body for community housing says economic insecurity of some women make them vulnerable to homelessness

As actor Funda Sirinkal beamed on Turkish TV, she was a world away, sleeping rough with her son in a Melbourne park.

She was struggling, unable to find a job or a home for her and her three-year-old in the city of her birth.