Afternoon Update: 1.5C climate target missed; Queensland puberty blocker ban overturned; and is period blood a ‘medical miracle’?
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António Guterres has said it is now “inevitable” that humanity will overshoot the 1.5C target in the Paris climate agreement, with “devastating consequences” for the world.
In his only interview before next month’s Cop30 climate summit, the secretary general of the UN urged the leaders who will gather in Brazil to realise that the longer they delay cutting emissions, the greater the danger of passing catastrophic “tipping points” in the Amazon, the Arctic and the oceans.
It came as debate continued over the Albanese government’s proposed nature law reforms. The environment minister, Murray Watt, told Labor colleagues he was right to reject putting a “climate trigger” in the legislation, which the Greens expect the Coalition to help pass.
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In pictures
Doja Cat channelled Tina Turner in Mad Max as she performed her hit single Gorgeous to close out the Vogue World charity event. Nicole Kidman and Kodi Smit-McPhee added more Australian flavour to the show’s fourth edition, helmed by Anna Wintour.
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“These are people that worked together every day, these are the people you saw down the street, the people you see in the pub.”
The Cobar shire council mayor, Jarrod Marsden, spoke for his small western NSW community after a man and woman died in an explosion at the Endeavour mine. A second woman is in a stable condition at Orange hospital.
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What the new gold rush says about our uncertain economy
Gold is having its biggest rally since the 1970s. Economics editor Patrick Commins joins Reged Ahmad to break down what “gold fomo” says about the state of the global economy.
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Before bed read
Period blood has long been thought of as “stinky and useless”. But so-called femtech startups are exploring using the monthly “medical miracle” produced by women’s bodies to test for a wide range of health conditions – including difficult-to-diagnose endometriosis.
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