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Filipinx-American Elaine Castillo sets a romance in the dark backrooms of the internet.
20/09/2025

Filipinx-American Elaine Castillo sets a romance in the dark backrooms of the internet.

Filipinx-American Elaine Castillo sets a romance in the dark backrooms of the internet, while Australian Pip Finkemeyer’s novel delivers a female tech-bro

“The Chifley Government tolerates disruptors and traitors, who plot and work against the safety and stability of this co...
19/09/2025

“The Chifley Government tolerates disruptors and traitors, who plot and work against the safety and stability of this country, and has the effrontery to apply the harshest laws against a law-abiding citizen because he is not of our colour!”

Almost 125 years after the White Australia policy was enacted, the story of ‘The Alabama Kid’, an American boxer deported in 1948, reminds that racism is never far from immigration concerns

Farrer encompasses the NSW government’s South West Renewable Energy Zone; Hay is at the zone’s epicentre. The activity i...
19/09/2025

Farrer encompasses the NSW government’s South West Renewable Energy Zone; Hay is at the zone’s epicentre. The activity in renewables is evident and intense.

Visiting the wide-ranging country electorate of Sussan Ley, the leader of a party in desperate need of winning seats in the distant big cities

"Former Treasury secretary Ken Henry was at a loss: even he couldn’t explain how the world’s best climate policy was dis...
19/09/2025

"Former Treasury secretary Ken Henry was at a loss: even he couldn’t explain how the world’s best climate policy was dismantled so cluelessly. He concluded that while we wait for an ETS to return one day, we must make what we’ve got work."

Carbon credits have been dismissed as a scam to permit business-as-usual, but does that ignore the essential role of forest conservation in climate action?

Any publicly embraced narrative of how Australia will protect itself for the next few decades must be crafted in the Lod...
19/09/2025

Any publicly embraced narrative of how Australia will protect itself for the next few decades must be crafted in the Lodge. It cannot be left to the technical experts trying to write the National Defence Strategy.

By not wanting to be seen to be prioritising defence planning and budgets, the left has ceded strategic policy to the right, to the nation’s detriment

“It’s time that governments stopped making meaningless statements about Indigenous economic empowerment when they have r...
18/09/2025

“It’s time that governments stopped making meaningless statements about Indigenous economic empowerment when they have rigged the game so that Indigenous peoples are small-time winners and big-time losers. Enough is enough.”

The PM’s pivot from “economic development” to “economic empowerment” for Indigenous peoples inevitably picks winners and leaves the rest facing chronic disadvantage

"During his tenure as minister for immigration, Calwell reserved his most vitriolic public comments for Japanese women, ...
18/09/2025

"During his tenure as minister for immigration, Calwell reserved his most vitriolic public comments for Japanese women, claiming in 1948 that they would pollute Australia’s shores if allowed into the country.”

Almost 125 years after the White Australia policy was enacted, the story of ‘The Alabama Kid’, an American boxer deported in 1948, reminds that racism is never far from immigration concerns

Geoff Dyer does not just want to run away from conformity and have fun, he is making a rarer and stranger demand: he has...
18/09/2025

Geoff Dyer does not just want to run away from conformity and have fun, he is making a rarer and stranger demand: he has the true aesthete’s belief that most of our emotional or perceptual life is a mistake, an unnecessary compromise, a settling for less.

The insightful English writer swaps exploring the globe for a memoir in tribute to his conventional, working-class parents and his childhood in smalltown Cheltenham

“The start-up that hired me was developing a first-generation wellness toolkit: an online meal planner. What it built in...
18/09/2025

“The start-up that hired me was developing a first-generation wellness toolkit: an online meal planner. What it built instead was a weapon of self-hatred. The community chats seethed with dysphoria, fatphobia and shame.”

Filipinx-American Elaine Castillo sets a romance in the dark backrooms of the internet, while Australian Pip Finkemeyer’s novel delivers a female tech-bro

To those in attendance at Garma, the headlining of wealth creation, apropos the escalating child incarceration crisis, c...
18/09/2025

To those in attendance at Garma, the headlining of wealth creation, apropos the escalating child incarceration crisis, came across as insensitive to human suffering, writes Megan Davis.

The PM’s pivot from “economic development” to “economic empowerment” for Indigenous peoples inevitably picks winners and leaves the rest facing chronic disadvantage

Megan Davis on the problem with Labor’s ‘economic empowerment’ policy:
18/09/2025

Megan Davis on the problem with Labor’s ‘economic empowerment’ policy:

The PM’s pivot from “economic development” to “economic empowerment” for Indigenous peoples inevitably picks winners and leaves the rest facing chronic disadvantage

“In the city, there’s not a big conversation on it anymore, but water is top of mind locally. Irrigators are just not re...
18/09/2025

“In the city, there’s not a big conversation on it anymore, but water is top of mind locally. Irrigators are just not represented. We’re in one or two electorates; we don’t have impact.”

Visiting the wide-ranging country electorate of Sussan Ley, the leader of a party in desperate need of winning seats in the distant big cities

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