Federal politics
The makeover: Peter Dutton’s hard sell to the electorate
Can the Opposition leader change his hard-man image while also making a virtue of his consistency?
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The centenary of the death of Marcel Proust
What better time to read or re-read the quintessential modernist novel ‘À la Recherche du Temps Perdu’?
The unsettled isle: Martin McDonagh’s ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’
A masterpiece from the strange mind of the Irish playwright and writer-director of ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’
Renewable energy’s power-lines problem
Protests against new transmission lines may prove the real challenge for renewables
Food
Native foods in the Plate Southern Land
What does the rise of culinary nationalism mean for the way we think about Australian food?
Culture
Should the Australian Museum return Papuan artefacts?
The call for the return of sacred objects stolen from Papua by Frank Hurley poses uncomfortable questions for Australia’s museums
Media
Neurosurgeon Charlie Teo is facing a reckoning of sorts, but what of the media whose fawning reporting has long sustained his reputation?
Television
Mike White’s satire of the vacationing class fails to hold the same appeal in its second season
Media
Lachlan Murdoch: Welcome to the cub
Since taking on the top job at Fox Corporation, Lachlan Murdoch has found himself in exalted company
Federal politics
The curious mind of King Charles III
Why Elizabeth, not Charles, is a good model for a future Australian head of state
Federal politics
Can ‘wellbeing’ be entrenched as a metric for future federal budgets?
Racism
The dangers of DFAT’s travel advice ignoring racial, cultural or religious diversity
Infrastructure
Renewable energy’s power-lines problem
Protests against new transmission lines may prove the real challenge for renewables
Art
A close, careful looking: The work of Cressida Campbell
A new NGA exhibition of the Australian artist’s meticulous paintings should deliver her from local obscurity
Film
The unsettled isle: Martin McDonagh’s ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’
A masterpiece from the strange mind of the Irish playwright and writer-director of ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’
Books
The centenary of the death of Marcel Proust
What better time to read or re-read the quintessential modernist novel ‘À la Recherche du Temps Perdu’?
Books
Kamila Shamsie’s ‘Best of Friends’
The latest novel exploring the politics of race and class in Britain, from the Women’s Prize for Fiction winner
Television
In the ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel, Paddy Considine’s brilliant turn as a kindly king in a brutal world is a stand-out
‘Air of possibility’: Surely not in Canberra?!
Columnist for The Saturday Paper Chris Wallace on a new season for politics.
HOST Ruby Jones
GUEST Chris Wallace
Elon Musk’s half-baked Twitter takeover
Elle Hardy, on Elon Musk’s attempt to engineer the truth.
HOST Ruby Jones
GUEST Elle Hardy
They were warned, and did it anyway: Inside robo-debt
Rick Morton on the robo-debt royal commission and how years of suffering could have been averted.
HOST Ruby Jones
GUEST Rick Morton