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Australia year in review 2022

Looking back on the key events of the year in news, politics, culture and sport

  • A woman carries a baby as flooding occurs in Lismore on February 28th. A severe weather warning is in place as wild weather and dangerous flooding continues to severely impact large swathes of NSW and Queensland.

    Australia’s best agency photographs from 2022 – in pictures

    Floods, protests and a beach of nude bottoms were among the memorable images from the past year taken by wire agencies and their contributors
  • Composite of Margot Robbie, Charlee Fraser and Nicole Kidman. 2022.

    Australian style in 2022: Nicole Kidman goes viral, Margot Robbie sheds Chanel and Beyoncé’s Brisbane couture

    There were plenty of highlights, from size-inclusivity on the catwalk and A-listers making international waves, but it’s time we took a hard look at our world-lagging status on fashion waste
  • Ash Barty of Australia celebrates after defeating Danielle Collins of the U.S., in the women's singles final at the Australian Open tennis championships in Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022, in Melbourne, Australia. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

    Australia’s best sporting moments of 2022 – in pictures

    Guardian Australian takes a look back at the best shots of the country’s best sportspeople
  • Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks to members of the crossbench

    Katharine Murphy on a year of political change – and rising threats to Australia

    Guardian Australia’s political editor, Katharine Murphy, talks to Jane Lee about the Albanese government’s achievements and biggest challenges going into the new year
  • Composite image of Shane Warne, Lance Franklin, Daisy Pearce, Sam Kerr, Dylan Alcott, Garang Kuol and Ash Barty

    Australian sport rediscovers pulse in 2022 as crowds return in celebratory mood

    National spirits soared and sank in a year where athletes clocked up wins on and off the field
  • Ben Smee

    Amid policy pitfalls, it’s the popularity of Queensland’s premier that preoccupies the opposition

    Ben Smee
    As Palaszczuk’s government passes the halfway mark, her opponent’s vision for the LNP remains a mystery
  • Aerial view of a rural property isolated by flood waters

    2022 in review: is this the year Australia faced its climate reckoning?

    The environmental crisis changed the political tide in 2022. There are some reasons to be optimistic about the outlook ahead – but much more to be done
  • Soccer fans wave an Australian flag and release flares

    2022: Australia’s year of living forgetfully

    Australians emerged from two years of lockdowns seemingly intent on putting the past behind them and embracing a newfound sense of liberty
  • A composite graphic of book covers: This Devastating Fever by Sophie Cunningham; An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rosa; Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au; We Come With This Place by Debra Dank; Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper; A Brief Affair by Alex Miller; and Harold Holt by Ross Walker

    The 25 best Australian books of 2022: Chloe Hooper, Alex Miller, Jessica Au and more

  • A 'no fireworks' sign in front of Flinders Street station

    Was 2022 the year that Australia came to terms with Covid? And what does 2023 hold?

  • Prime Minister elect Anthony Albanese addresses the party faithful with Jodie Haydon and Nathan Albanese at the election night function at Canterbury Hurlstone Park RSL club for Labor leader Anthony Albanese. Australian election. Photograph by Mike Bowers. Saturday 21st May  2022. Guardian Australia

    Scott Morrison swept away by political tide as Anthony Albanese fights to fireproof 2023

    Labor has enjoyed a honeymoon period with voters after their brutal rejection of Morrison’s government
  • Len connolly steps out for his set at the parkes railway bowling club. The 2022 Parkes Elvis festival returned after a hiatus due to the pandemic. The Parkes Elvis Festival is held every year in the second week in January, coinciding with Elvis Presley’s birthday.  Now in its 29th year, the Festival continues to grow.

    Celebration and survival: the best of Guardian Australia’s 2022 photography – in pictures

    This year’s best photography from Guardian Australia’s photographic team and freelance photographers across Australia and New Zealand
  • Anthony Albanese receives the adulation from the party faithful at Canterbury Hurlstone Park RSL club on election night with Penny Wong, Jodie Haydon and his son, Nathan Albanese.

    Changing fortunes and a teal wave: the year in Australian politics – in pictures

    It was a momentous 2022 in Canberra as Labor ousted the Coalition after nine years and independents rose to prominence – and the press gallery saw it all. Here are some of their most striking images
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