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A scandal in Australia’s space science community suggests the need for increased rigour in reviewing possible research misconduct in our universities
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With an election imminent, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese talks up his first-term achievements while acknowledging voter disgruntlement
The demise of the China Matters think tank raises questions about how governments deal with voices they don’t want to hear
Thirty years after Helen Garner’s ‘The First Stone’, debates continue over staff-student relationships and consent on campus
The battlegrounds of the history wars have moved from niche media to our national politics, and truth-telling is the biggest casualty
Melbourne’s on-again off-again embrace of street art is now tested by the trial of the alleged artist behind ‘Pam the Bird’
Remembering lessons in the art of derailing and the power of obfuscation at a Year 10 Model United Nations day
Brute force: ‘The Brutalist’ and architecture on film
The Oscar-nominated postwar story of an autocratic immigrant architect in the US unwittingly mirrors Donald Trump’s edict on public buildings
Surface tension: Julie Mehretu at MCA
An exhibition of the Ethiopian-American painter’s works built upon obscured news media suggests even abstract art must be connected to the world
The song remains the thane: ‘Macbeth’
A new production of ‘Macbeth’ starring David Tennant is an opportunity to consider if it might provide the quintessential tragic role
The Hungarian-English novelist’s latest is another tale of human failure, managing to turn his characters’ inability to feel into something affecting
Gia Coppola’s ‘The Last Showgirl’
Pamela Anderson is captivating as a veteran Vegas dancer contemplating life offstage as her revue is replaced by more risqué acts
‘You do what you must do, and you do it well’
A lifelong mantra first heard when the author was six, courtesy of Bob Dylan, serves to calm the pursuit of perfectionism
More than half a century ago, American astronaut Charlie Duke left a photo of his family on the surface of the moon – some think he should have stayed there, too
What next for Whyalla now the SA government has put Sanjeev Gupta’s steelworks into administration?
The overturned convictions regarding allegedly faked Brett Whiteley paintings provide a lesson in how we tend to evaluate justice in accordance with our personal judgements
Netflix's Belle Gibson drama ‘Apple Cider Vinegar’
Plus, new seasons of ‘The White Lotus’ and ‘Severance’, and Demi Moore’s award-winning turn in ‘The Substance’
The election budget: What's in it for you?
Columnist for The Saturday Paper Paul Bongiorno on what’s in the budget for you — and how it will sway the government’s chances at re-election.
HOST Ruby Jones
GUEST Paul Bongiorno
Middle East correspondent for The Economist Gregg Carlstrom on what the end of the ceasefire means for the people of Gaza – and what US President Donald Trump wants out of the next stage of war.
HOST Ruby Jones
GUEST Gregg Carlstrom
‘The gangsters have gone f*cking nowhere’: The failed clean up of the CFMEU
Associate editor of The Saturday Paper, Martin McKenzie-Murray, on the union members fighting back – and whether the CFMEU can be saved.
HOST Daniel James
GUEST Martin McKenzie-Murray