Each Saturday we add 15 (or so) new songs to a Spotify playlist to soundtrack your physical distancing amid coronavirus – and help artists you love get paid

We’ve published a bunch of articles about how the coronavirus crisis has impacted the Australian arts industry. But there are small things you can do. It’s an imperfect solution, but streaming Australian music can help.

Each week, in partnership with Sounds Australia, Guardian Australia will add some 15 new songs to a playlist for you to put on repeat.

One study suggests one in three people from 16 to 64 have been victims of image-based abuse. But most will never step foot in a police station

When Laura* was 14, she was convinced that her boyfriend was the love of her life. So, when several girls messaged her to say he had sent them a video of her drunk and engaging in a sexual act, she told herself they were lying.

“I was just like, ‘Oh, you don’t know anything about our relationship. I don’t believe you,’” she says. “But after we broke up, he pretty much sent it to everyone that I knew.

As the US deals with a Covid-19 catastrophe in its meatworks, the Melbourne factory points to the potential for outbreaks in Australia

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Working in an abattoir at the best of times is tough. The hours are long, the labour is intensive and, for rank and file labourers, the pay is low.

Now, in the Covid-19 crisis, workers have one more thing to worry about – around the world their factories have proved to be a hotbed of infection. As Australia moves to ease lockdown laws, meat workers may still be at the frontline of exposure and infection.

The cardinal maintains he didn’t know about the Victorian town’s notorious paedophile priests, a claim the royal commission found ‘implausible’

“Why isn’t all of Australia talking about what happened here in Ballarat?”

That’s the question Clare Linane remembers asking her husband, Peter Blenkiron, 12 years ago as they were sitting in the kitchen talking about his abuse. Linane’s husband, brother and cousin had all been abused when they were children between 1973 and 1974 by Christian Brother and now convicted paedophile Edward “Ted” Dowlan. They knew they were among thousands of people living in and around Ballarat – Victoria’s largest inland city – who had been affected by child sexual abuse perpetrated by clergy.

Deep recessions have long shadows and already there is a gaping hole opening up in our pandemic response

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The great recession was followed by Brexit, the election of Donald Trump and the rise of authoritarianism particularly in Europe.

Big economic events have big political consequences.

Politicians have set a high bar for themselves – success on coronavirus has created community expectations that will be challenging to shift

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“Let’s not give everything back, let’s not throw away all the progress we’ve made by letting our frustration get the better of us.” This was Daniel Andrews on Friday afternoon, shortly after national cabinet resolved to gradually restart economic and social activity by July.

The Victorian premier wanted people to understand he’d be hastening slowly – the message being here in the Massachusetts of Australia, we decide how quickly we’ll remove coronavirus restrictions. We don’t apply an arbitrary national average.

Covid-19 has spread around the planet, sending billions of people into lockdown as health services struggle to cope. Find out where the virus has spread, and where it has been most deadly

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Paul Kelly warns people over 70 and with existing diseases are at high risk from coronavirus as pandemic restrictions ease

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The deputy chief medical officer, Paul Kelly, is warning people to take care if visiting mums on Mother’s Day, as frictions emerge over the lockdown in Victoria.

In some states, authorities are allowing people to pay family visits on Sunday as coronavirus pandemic restrictions are eased, but Kelly has restated warnings that people over 70 and with existing chronic diseases are at high risk from coronavirus.

Scientists are cautioning that it’s still too early to know how the novel coronavirus mutates after a preliminary study in the U.S. claimed that a new strain of the virus has emerged that is more dominant and contagious than the original.

What may be the latest hope in the hunt to develop a treatment for COVID-19 comes from an unusual source – a furry, four-year-old llama named 'Winter' that is living on a farm in the Belgium countryside.

Washington state has another bug to worry about in addition to Asian giant hornets -- gypsy moths, which the state's governor says could become an "infestation."

Rochelle Humes has revealed that she is expecting her third child with husband Marvin in an Easter themed Instagram post.

Tomlinson appears in a bathtub wearing nothing but a shower cap in the cover video

The comedian praised "selfless" NHS workers on the front line

Coronavirus: the symptoms

The 99-year-old is walking the length of his garden 100 times to raise funds

The cause of death is currently unknown

The TV presenter has united the nation – though not in the way he hoped to

The Hollywood star was filming The Last Duel in Dublin when lockdown measures kicked in

The group originally released the chart-topping track in 2005

The singer has announced she will no longer be touring her Lover album this year

The comic has presented the Golden Globes five times

The actor and his wife Sabrina both tested positive for Covid-19 last month

They've shared messages of remembrance in honour of the DJ

The singer posted the sweet snap on what should have been the start of the summer term

The baby will be the pop couple's third child

The actor's father left the family home shortly after he was born

James McAvoy has praised the NHS for saving his life when he suffered a botched surgery.

We can all relate now...

O'Porter and Flack were good friends

The fundraising veteran has released a charity single with Michael Ball

The Weeknd has urged fans to help Captain Tom Moore beat him to the number one spot

Hollywood star Johnny Depp's libel battle against The Sun newspaper has been postponed thanks to coronavirus as the actor is stuck in France and unable to fly to London.

Time to get full on throwback with a trip down memory lane

His rendition of You'll Never Walk Alone with Michael Ball is the fastest selling single of 2020 to date

The long-awaited television adaptation of Sally Rooney's millennial love story has arrived

Paul Mescal stars in the BBC's adaptation of Sally Rooney's acclaimed novel

The Little Mix star raided her closet ahead of... a trip to the shops

Josh Gad hosted a virtual reunion with the cast and filmmakers from the iconic 1985 film

The director has explained the 'creative differences' that led him to walk away

The singer wrote new music while exploring their "gender" and "queerness"

The couple have been on and off since 2015

Gascoine was best known for her role as DI Maggie Forbes in the groundbreaking ITV police drama

Fancy an Olympic torch? Or perhaps a four poster bed? You've come to the right place...

Beckingham's older brother Pegg has been a "sound board" for him as he navigates the industry

The former footballer has also been chatting to isolated people on video calls

Lord Sugar has been criticised for sharing a conspiracy theory on social media which stated that Covid-19 was man-made.

The star-studded recording featured the likes of Dua Lipa, Ellie Goulding, Jess Glynne and Chris Martin

Gordon Ramsay and his daughter swapped clothes in a hilarious TikTok video where they pretend to cook together.

The Body Coach said he feels "eternally grateful" for the health service