Gus Lamont went missing in the Australian outback on 27 September. Despite one of the largest and most intensive searches for a missing person in South Australia, no trace has been found of the four-year-old. Senior reporter Tory Shepherd speaks to Reged Ahmad about how the child has seemingly vanished and left only questions about what could have happened
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'This is war': is Trump about to invade Venezuela?
Donald Trump has in recent months turned his attention to ousting Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro. But the US president and his secretary of war, Pete Hegseth, are under scrutiny over military strikes on suspected drug boats from Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea. This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Guardian’s Tom Phillips about why people are accusing Trump of war crimes
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Back to Back Barries: why gen z and millennials will decide the Coalition’s fate
Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry are back and there’s a lot that’s happened since they last sat down together. In this week’s episode they examine the Liberals’ abandonment of net zero emissions, whether Barnaby Joyce could help or hinder support for One Nation and why the Liberal party needs to start courting young people if it is to survive
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Newsroom edition: the dangers of automated governance
A Guardian exclusive this week revealed the national disability insurance scheme is set to be dramatically overhauled, with participants’ plans now being assessed by a computer and human oversight dramatically reduced. Advocates have called it a ‘nightmare scenario for disabled people’. Bridie Jabour speaks with the editor, Lenore Taylor, the head of newsroom, Mike Ticher, and deputy editor Patrick Keneally about what happens when you take the human out of human services, and if the government has learned any lessons from robodebt
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The 27-year-old white supremacist radicalising Maga
Where is Nick Fuentes trying to lead the Republican party? J Oliver Conroy reports
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