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The unhinged pursuit of profit is destroying us
To undo the worst of neoliberalism we need to target need, rather than race or identity
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In attempting to take down an independent MP, Morrison is helping pro-integrity candidates across the country
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In attempting to take down an independent MP, Morrison is helping pro-integrity candidates across the country
Debt burden: Paul Schrader’s ‘The Card Counter’
The acclaimed writer-director indulges his experimental streak in a thriller that inverts the popular conception of the gambling man
The Bond market: ‘Dune’ and ‘No Time To Die’
Blockbuster season begins with a middling 007 and a must-see sci-fi epic
‘Get Back’ is ‘slow TV’ for Beatles nuts
Despite plenty of magical moments, Peter Jackson’s eight-hour epic is the work of a fanatic, and will likely only be watched in full by other fanatics
The success of Indi MP Helen Haines points to more non-aligned voices in parliament
Resources
The fossil-fuel industry’s grip on Australian hearts and minds
Is there hope that public misconceptions of the importance of coal and gas can be overcome?
Indigenous rights
There can be no republic without constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians
National security
On Her Majesty’s secret disservice
The reporter who uncovered the truth about Kim Philby, the 20th century’s most infamous spy, and his warnings for democratic society
Art
The artist making sculpture for penguins
How creating sculpture for animals is transforming wildlife conservation and the art world
Film
Debt burden: Paul Schrader’s ‘The Card Counter’
The acclaimed writer-director indulges his experimental streak in a thriller that inverts the popular conception of the gambling man
Film
‘Get Back’ is ‘slow TV’ for Beatles nuts
Despite plenty of magical moments, Peter Jackson’s eight-hour epic is the work of a fanatic, and will likely only be watched in full by other fanatics
Television
Candid camera: ‘How To with John Wilson’
Both delightfully droll and genuinely moving, John Wilson’s idiosyncratic documentary series is this month’s streaming standout
Film
Slow motions: Clint Eastwood’s ‘Cry Macho’
Despite patient filmmaking, the 91-year-old director’s elegiac feature is unable to escape the legend of the man
Indigenous rights
Revisiting trauma is not the road to justice for Aboriginal people
History of Australia
Did Federation compromise our democracy?
How the advent of Australia’s national government separated power from people and place
Politics
The success of Indi MP Helen Haines points to more non-aligned voices in parliament
Environment
Echidna poo has changed our understanding of human evolution
Citizen science is not only helping echidna conservation, but changing how we think about evolution
A homemade algorithm chooses every book I read
How a monumental to-read list turned into a spreadsheet that randomly selects books
Books
Final sentence: Gerald Murnane’s ‘Last Letter to a Reader’
The essay anthology that will be the final book from one of Australia’s most idiosyncratic authors
Music
New kid on the block: The Kid Laroi
How Australia has overlooked its biggest global music star, an Indigenous hip-hop prodigy
Film
The Bond market: ‘Dune’ and ‘No Time To Die’
Blockbuster season begins with a middling 007 and a must-see sci-fi epic
Books
‘Crossroads’ by Jonathan Franzen
The acclaimed US author’s latest novel is a 1971 church drama modelled on ‘Middlemarch’
Television
The US drama about teen plane-crash survivors is a heady mix of folk horror and high-school betrayal
A spy scandal and a secret trial
Kieran Pender on the trial of Bernard Collaery, and why the government is trying so hard to keep it as secret as possible.
HOST Ruby Jones
GUEST Kieran Pender
Parliament ends in disunity and disarray
Paul Bongiorno on whether Scott Morrison has lost control of his own party, and what that means in the leadup to the next election.
HOST Ruby Jones
GUEST Paul Bongiorno
Are rich countries to blame for Omicron?
Rick Morton on the threat posed by the Omicron variant, and how vaccine hoarding by rich nations is helping prolong the pandemic.
HOST Ruby Jones
GUEST Rick Morton