Federal politics
Tanya Plibersek’s hostile environment
Far from being sidelined, Tanya Plibersek has been tasked with a monumental challenge: steering Australia’s response to the unfolding environmental catastrophes
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Queen bees and eshays: ‘Heartbreak High’
Netflix’s reboot of the ‘90s teen drama is a fresh and joyful distillation of Sydney youth culture
Surfing the joyous shallows, the author looks out to the big waves and sees the sadness men carry in deeper water
Green screen: Colm Bairéad’s ‘The Quiet Girl’
An uneasy but hypnotic Irish-language feature about the secrets surrounding a child sent to live with extended family
Encompassing video, installation and costume, this intriguing exhibition indicates where visual art is heading now
International politics
Deciphering China’s intentions in PNG
Who should Australia believe about China’s business and strategic interests in Papua New Guinea?
Television
Queen bees and eshays: ‘Heartbreak High’
Netflix’s reboot of the ‘90s teen drama is a fresh and joyful distillation of Sydney youth culture
Art
Encompassing video, installation and costume, this intriguing exhibition indicates where visual art is heading now
Television
Death and the maidens: ‘Bad Sisters’
Sharon Horgan’s masterful black comedy series about sisters who murder their brother-in-law tops this month’s streaming highlights
Federal politics
How to read first parliamentary speeches
What might the first speeches of our new crop of federal MPs tell us about the parliament, and careers, ahead?
Law and order
Why have we accepted secret trials?
The attorney-general must counter the national security overreach that denies open justice in cases such as the Witness J trial
Environment
Front-row seats to the end of the Reef
Visiting the Australian Institute of Marine Science to witness the sobering studies charting the decline of the Great Barrier Reef
Society
Somerton Man: the science and the myths
DNA studies have provided the identity of the Somerton Man, but can’t explain why our fascination with his fate endures
Surfing the joyous shallows, the author looks out to the big waves and sees the sadness men carry in deeper water
Film
Giddy up: Jordan Peele’s ‘Nope’
A shoddy monster movie suggests the exciting director’s career might be closer to M. Night Shyamalan’s than Steven Spielberg’s
Film
Green screen: Colm Bairéad’s ‘The Quiet Girl’
An uneasy but hypnotic Irish-language feature about the secrets surrounding a child sent to live with extended family
Books
Kate Atkinson’s witty, melancholic novel is an immersion in 1920s London nightclubs – the Soho shrines that disguise dens of iniquity
Television
A fine-dining chef inherits a busy Chicago sandwich joint after a family tragedy, in this taut, fulfilling series
Australia is mourning the Queen longer than the UK
Today, columnist for The Saturday Paper Paul Bongiorno on Australia’s extended grieving.
HOST Ruby Jones
GUEST Paul Bongiorno
Russia suffers a stunning collapse in Ukraine
Today, journalist Charles McPhedran on a humiliating Russian defeat in Ukraine.
HOST Ruby Jones
GUEST Charles McPhedran
Why being a renter is getting more expensive
Today, senior reporter for The Saturday Paper Rick Morton on what’s happening to our rents.
HOST Ruby Jones
GUEST Rick Morton