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This year, for many Australians, it feels like summer never left. The sunny days and warm nights have continued well into autumn. Even now, in May, it’s still unusually warm.

Beatrice Faust was an iconoclastic public intellectual. I first encountered her through her columns in the Weekend Australian in the 1990s. She was by then a standard-bearer for second-wave feminism, at a time when public conversations about feminism were defined by inter-generational conflict.

A tariff deal between the US and UK has provided the first off-ramp for Donald Trump's trade crusade, but uncertainty continues to weigh on investor sentiment.

Another Australia election has come and gone in a flurry of maps and diagrams and we’ve collected the best of the lot