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Jun 18, 2026 - World

Jordan Matthew, who has no lifeguard training, rescued a young boy and two women from the dangerous currentA shuttle driver recently used his bare hands to rescue three tourists ensnared by a potentially deadly rip current off the southern Louisiana coast, actions which state officials hailed as “heroic”.In an interview published on 15 June, Reliant Shuttle driver Jordan Matthew told Guardian reporting partner WWL Louisiana that he had just dropped off a group of tourists from Oklahoma at a beach on Grand Isle days earlier when one of them frantically flagged him down. Continue reading...

Jun 18, 2026 - World

Church ‘profoundly sorry’ for pain caused to mothers and children separated at birth between 1940s and 1980sThe Church of England has made a long-awaited apology for its role in forced adoptions after the second world war.Hundreds of thousands of children were forcibly separated from their mothers in the UK between the 1940s and the 1980s. Survivors testify to suffering abuse, neglect and lifelong trauma. Continue reading...

Jun 18, 2026 - World

This blog is now closedMedia union blasts Pauline Hanson’s ‘bitter, unprofessional’ attack on Guardian journalistGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastCoalition says it’s good Hanson and One Nation getting the scrutiny of a party on the riseKevin Hogan, the shadow assistant treasurer, says he thinks it’s good Hanson was able to speak at the press club yesterday as One Nation “needs to be put under much more scrutiny” amid surging support.The GetUp stunt completely backfired, it makes them look like [bullies] and makes her look like, you know, a victim in the sense that she’s being picked on. And that never works.One Nation have tapped into, I think, to some fear and anxieties in the Australian public, and I think we have to acknowledge that. I certainly don’t agree with all the solutions that she puts out there, but look, I think it was healthy that she front up and that she was invited yesterday.If you’re coming to Australia to have a better life, you become an Australian. That’s what we’re referring to as a monocultured Australia. You’re an Australian first, and your ethnicity or your creed comes second …The reality is, we’re a Christian Judeo society with a law structure around us, and they’ve come with one clear objective: to have a better life. And that one clear objective should be, if they want to have a better life here, is to live within our culture and live within our laws and rules.It was direct shooting. It hit the targets. It was clear. It was successful. And it addressed a number of the elephants in the room … So the speech hit the target for where Australians are today. Continue reading...

Jun 18, 2026 - World

Union calls for journalists to stand with colleagues when they are targeted by politicians as Anthony Albanese says media organisations play ‘vital roles in our democracy’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe media union has condemned One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s attack on Guardian Australia senior correspondent Sarah Martin, as Anthony Albanese called on journalists to defend public broadcasters SBS and the ABC.After her landmark address to the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday, Hanson called Martin “trashy” for asking about her daughter Lee Hanson’s employment by a NSW One Nation senator, despite living and working in Tasmania. Continue reading...

Jun 18, 2026 - World

The 1,200-year-old Major Oak in Sherwood Forest, linked to the legend of Robin Hood, is believed to have died