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Penny Wong’s next big fight
Does the foreign minister believe AUKUS positions Australia for an inevitable Pacific war, or does she still think we needn’t choose between the US and China?
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Does the foreign minister believe AUKUS positions Australia for an inevitable Pacific war, or does she still think we needn’t choose between the US and China?
Labor in power: a recent history
Incumbent Labor governments have failed to achieve much that could be called progressive
An Indigenous leader reflects on a lifetime following the law of the land
The idea that governments must not pursue policy they didn’t take to an election is political nonsense
It’s time to call Peter Dutton out for the soulless wrecker that he is
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Climate justice in the Pacific
The lack of global action on the climate crisis has left grassroots groups leading the fight against catastrophe in PNG
The Sydney-based fashion label Ellery collapsed in 2019, leaving creditors owed millions, so why is the brand, now in Paris, still feted as an Australian success story?
Labor in power: a recent history
Incumbent Labor governments have failed to achieve much that could be called progressive
Berlinale 2023 highlights: part two
Standouts among the sidebars included French crime flick ‘The Temple Woods Gang’, Argentinian comedy of errors ‘Arturo a los 30’ and London-set queer thriller ‘Femme’
Psychological warfare reigns in new seasons of ‘Yellowjackets’ and ‘Succession’
Plus, Aussie teenagers switch schools in ‘The Swap’, Donald Glover and Janine Nabers’ psychological horror ‘Swarm’, and more
Technocrats are ruining Test cricket
Why does the Australian men’s team bother to play Tests overseas?
The idea that governments must not pursue policy they didn’t take to an election is political nonsense
The AI-writing app ChatGPT poses a challenge not only to our education system but to how we think
How lockdowns and personal struggles led Jess McGuire to her new gig as a host of ABC Western Plains radio
The passions of carnivorous-botany enthusiasts go well beyond Venus flytraps, the “gateway plants”
Taciturn letters to the author’s family, written by his grandfather on World War One battlefields, prompt consideration of intergenerational trauma
Sovereignty of imagination: Alexis Wright
A new novel from the acclaimed Indigenous writer occasions a survey of her work, immersed in Country and the ongoing experience of colonisation
Slide and the family stone: Mike Hewson
The artist playing with risk and constructing public spaces that make wry observations of how we treat nature in our urban environments
Donkey gong: Jerzy Skolimowski’s ‘EO’
The venerable Polish director’s latest film follows a donkey on a moving yet unsentimental journey
Rebecca Makkai’s ‘I Have Some Questions for You’
In this sharp campus novel about memory and abuse, a woman returns to the boarding school where her friend was murdered
Pip Williams’ ‘The Bookbinder of Jericho’
The Australian author’s second novel returns to World War One England to consider the significance of meaningful work for women
‘When in doubt, make a fool of yourself’
The inspirational advice from a book that emboldened the author to pursue a career in writing and cartooning, and to approach life with joy
No Voice and no votes: the future of the Liberal Party
Columnist for The Saturday Paper Paul Bongiorno on the future of the Liberal party.
HOST Ruby Jones
GUEST Paul Bongiorno
Can a deal be done to get us affordable homes?
Chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper Karen Middleton on the political games that could decide the future of Australian housing.
HOST Ruby Jones
GUEST Karen Middleton
The state locking up more children than any other
Queensland Human Rights Commissioner Scott McDougall on the rights of children in a state that’s going to lock up more of them – and how his office has been sidelined.
HOST Ruby Jones
GUEST Scott McDougall