Politics
The extinction rebels
Direct action protest and the rise of a new resistance movement

History
Blackbirds: Australia’s hidden slave trade history
The racism that brought Australian South Sea Islanders here, and the racism that tried to send them back
Federal politics
Scott Morrison’s quiet Australians
Just how silent does the PM want Australians to be?
Law and order
The Russell Street Bomber in the High Court
The unlikely source of a critical case for the nation’s separation of powers
The Djab Wurrung Birthing Tree
The highway construction causing irredeemable cultural and environmental damage
Mungo MacCallum: A true journalistic believer
Celebrating the contribution of an Australian media legend
Film
Art life: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s ‘Never Look Away’ and Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Parasite’
By barely disguising an account of the life of Gerhard Richter, the German director fails the artist and filmgoers
Film
All veils and misty: Richard Lowenstein’s ‘Mystify: Michael Hutchence’
The insider documentary that wipes clear the myths obscuring the INXS singer
Books
‘The Other Americans’ by Laila Lalami
An accidental death in a tale of immigrant generations highlights fractures in the promise of America