Politics
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?
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Morrison yet again undermines a female MP, while publicly showing “support”
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Morrison yet again undermines a female MP, while publicly showing “support”
End of the road: The Anthony Bourdain documentary ‘Roadrunner’
Morgan Neville’s posthumous examination of the celebrity chef hews close to the familiar narrative
Cricketing institutions are on a sticky wicket
Tim Paine’s sexting scandal reveals more about institutional failures than personal ones
The Irish novelist’s latest ponders creativity and the unacknowledged life of Thomas Mann
SBS’s Australian goldfields series looks beyond colonial orthodoxies to tell the neglected stories
The prime minister’s belated response to death threats against political leaders is a sign of our dangerously hollowed-out politics
The unhinged pursuit of profit is destroying us
To undo the worst of neoliberalism we need to target need, rather than race or identity
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
End of the road: The Anthony Bourdain documentary ‘Roadrunner’
Morgan Neville’s posthumous examination of the celebrity chef hews close to the familiar narrative
Sport
Cricketing institutions are on a sticky wicket
Tim Paine’s sexting scandal reveals more about institutional failures than personal ones
Politics
The prime minister’s belated response to death threats against political leaders is a sign of our dangerously hollowed-out politics
Law and order
The legal system is failing survivors of sexual violence, so why is it being maintained?
Faced with the choice between a gruelling court process or nothing, victim-survivors are often coming away more bruised from the experience than they were beforehand
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
How Pauline Hanson fractured the Coalition
Paul Bongiorno on why the Coalition is in chaos, and the political ramifications it will have for Scott Morrison.
HOST Ruby Jones
GUEST Paul Bongiorno
Inside Australia’s most dangerous hotel
7am producer Elle Marsh on who is responsible for protecting the detainees, and why the government should have seen this outbreak coming.
HOST Ruby Jones
GUEST Elle Marsh
The historic reforms to sexual consent laws
Saxon Mullins on the push to update Australia’s laws around sexual assault, and why it’s taking so long.
HOST Ruby Jones
GUEST Saxon Mullins