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From Douglas Adams and Liu Cixin to Terry Pratchett and Claire G Coleman, your beach reads are sorted courtesy of Guardian Australia’s staff and critics

<strong>Tuesday</strong>: AOC and Swimming Australia threaten legal action over billboards claiming ‘women’s sport is not for men’. Plus: the world’s richest man now owns Twitter

The game was created by a software engineer in Brooklyn for his partner

Guardian staff pick the funniest things they’ve seen online in the past 12 months – in the hopes that you’ll join us with yours in the comments

Guardian Australia staff – and their children! – recommend games they’ve turned to for joy, diversion and much-needed escapism

/PRNewswire/ -- Farm To Coast Collective, the latest venture from The Beale Group (TBG) family of businesses, has launched on WeFunder at...

Last modified on Sun 14 Mar 2021 16.08 EDT Hello, and welcome to the week. It’s Monday 15 March, and this is Imogen Dewey bringing you news about today’s March4Justice rallies, the new federal parliament. Parliament will be suspended between midday and 1.30pm today so MPs who wish to can join thousands attending demanding more action be taken in response to allegations of workplace abuse and lack of respect for women, kicked off yesterday in Perth. Greens, Labor and crossbench MPs have co...

Last modified on Thu 4 Mar 2021 15.16 EST Good morning, it’s Friday 5 March and this is Imogen Dewey with news on federal parliament’s ongoing misogyny backlash, New Zealand’s withdrawn pandemic. Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine to Australia in the first such intervention under the EU’s controversial export authorisation scheme – alarming those concerned that the EU is moving towards a protectionist approach to vaccine supply. Germany’s vaccination committee has reversed its guidance n...