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Morning everyone. If you’re a woman and you’ve ever felt that the man in your life doesn’t pull his weight around the house, then you’re right: blokes do less than half the work you do, according to the latest Hilda survey.
We have all the news on Tropical Cyclone Alfred as it head towards south-east Queensland, including looking at how climate change might have shaped it. Plus, the US has stopped sharing intelligence with Ukraine, and a Eurovision c-bomb?
How do we close the orgasm gap?
Guardian Australia lifestyle editor and the author of All Women Want, Alyx Gorman, explains to Reged Ahmad why too many women are having mediocre sex – and what can be done to fix it.
How do we close the orgasm gap?
With higher temperatures around the world and temperatures in the Coral Sea a degree higher than usual when Tropical Cyclone Alfred formed, environment reporter Graham Readfearn looks at how climate change has shaped the storm and how it will change the impact of the storm on land.
It’s a long time since Peter Wolf, the former frontman of the J Geils Band, was in the celebrity fast lane. But his new memoir sounds like a good read as he recounts how his hippy parents only bought a TV so they could watch the McCarthy hearings, hanging out with Bob Dylan in Greenwich Village, sheltering Van Morrison from an angry record company execs, and a tumultuous marriage to Faye Dunaway (pictured).
The Courier Mail is counting down to the impact of Tropical Cyclone Alfred and includes maps of which suburbs are expected to bear the brunt and whether you should tape your windows shut. Teachers will be given maths and English results almost instantly under reforms of the Naplan test system, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. The popular Panda Mart discount store has had thousands of products withdrawn over safety concerns, the Age reports. Lack of housing is preventing businesses from attracting staff in Illawarra, the Mercury reports.