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The year the Voice broke
How John Howard’s shadow over Australian politics is evident in the referendum, reconciliation and the rest
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The trial of former school principal Malka Leifer for sexual abuse highlighted how shame and trauma are treated in the justice system, and why some institutions and communities are resistant to scrutiny
Native timber harvesting is ending, but as we begin to understand that ‘untouched wilderness’ is a myth, how best should forests be managed in future?
How John Howard’s shadow over Australian politics is evident in the referendum, reconciliation and the rest
Early dry-season burning by Indigenous rangers in the Northern Territory is reducing the risk and severity of wildfires
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How Indigenous seasonal knowledge can fight the fires to come
Thousands of years of lived experience informs Indigenous understanding of Australia’s true seasons, offering many advantages over a four-season cycle imported from Europe.
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Venice International Film Festival 2023 highlights
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Early dry-season burning by Indigenous rangers in the Northern Territory is reducing the risk and severity of wildfires
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Ian White’s documentary captures the incendiary trajectory of the seminal Melbourne band at the expense of the inertia that fuelled it
M. John Harrison’s ‘Wish I Was Here’
The uncategorisable English author delivers an ‘anti-memoir’ meditating on the profound relationships between memory, imagination and fiction
Christos Tsiolkas’s ‘The In-Between’
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Are our leaders playing politics with war?
Columnist for The Saturday Paper, Paul Bongiorno, on how bipartisanship has been lost over conflict in the Middle East and the fault lines between friends and colleagues.
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