Our ethnic face
The Australia of Pauline Hanson’s second parliamentary term looks very different to the Australia of her first
In light of recent events
Women’s rightful places
Watching women in daggy footy shorts run around during the inaugural season of the AFL women’s league required very little getting used to. In just a few months it’s become so normal that I’m embarrassed to explain to my daughters, aged 8 and 11, why the league hasn’t been around since, like, forever. But, because I am such an amazingly progressive, switched-on, feminist dad, I asked them what we should fix next. What other “mostly men stuff” in our world should be “men and women stuff”? This is what they told me.
Oslo Davis is a widely published illustrator, artist and cartoonist.
Art walks a tightrope
Bill Henson exhibits recent photographic work at the National Gallery of Victoria
Magic hands
Russian piano superstar Daniil Trifonov teaches a masterclass in Melbourne
A cleansing fire
Jessa Crispin’s ‘Why I Am Not a Feminist’ demands a dismantling of mainstream feminism … and the system itself
The age of epidemics
Outbreaks like COVID-19 are caused by the same fundamental problems as climate change, but the solutions may also be connected
The Rupertvirus
News Corp’s COVID coverage has been a health risk of its own
Yours truly: Taylor Swift’s ‘folklore’
The singer-songwriter explores fictional selves on her tender-hearted eighth album
Blind study
When it comes to China’s influence, Australian universities have been burying their heads in the sand for too long