Politics
Rebellion in Dutton country
Labor, the Greens and GetUp are preparing for battle in the Queensland electorate of Dickson

International politics
Losing the plot: the American midterms
Caravan conspiracies, dead candidates and a miasma of acrimony … welcome to the 2018 US campaign trail
Law and order
AFP officer Colin Winchester was gunned down 30 years ago, and yet another twist in the case only just played out
Health
In Central Australia, the Anangu people and Western health professionals are working towards a common language
Federal politics
The Liberal Party: a rolling fiasco
The government’s suite of half-formed ideas work for no one
VOX
Work as a stripper wasn’t quite what this newcomer imagined
Revisiting the kids of Angeles City
Three years on, how are the Filipino children of Australian sex tourists faring?
Poems
Les Murray’s magisterial ‘Collected Poems’
How to approach a 736-page collection by Australia’s greatest poet?
Books
Fair judgement without surrender: Chloe Hooper’s ‘The Arsonist’
The author of ‘The Tall Man’ tries to understand the motivations of a Black Saturday firebug
Film
Pawel Pawlikowski’s perfectly formed ‘Cold War’
Not a moment is wasted in what could be the Polish director’s masterpiece
Female fandom and Jessica Leski’s ‘I Used to be Normal’
They’ve been dismissed and patronised, but Beatlemaniacs, Directioners and other fangirls are very self-aware about their boy band ‘affliction’
Art
‘Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage’ at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
From Matisse to Malevich: a considered snapshot of adventurous Russian collecting
‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
For their Netflix debut, the Coen brothers return to the Western