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News
28 Jan 2017
The legal case against US president Donald Trump
Martin McKenzie-Murray
Donald Trump assumes the US presidency with emolument proceedings filed against him and investigations under way by up to six state agencies.
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News
28 Jan 2017
Exclusive: Brandis bound for London, Porter to take Attorney-General
In the wake of Britain’s Brexit vote, the job is being portrayed as taking on a different flavour and one well suited to Brandis’s skills.
Karen Middleton
Christian Porter is set to become attorney-general in a post-budget reshuffle, with George Brandis likely being sent to London as high commissioner.
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Editorial
28 Jan 2017
Fighting the myth
Aboriginal people aren’t allowed the freedom to have hope in this country, because our hope means validating our existence, saying we are here, and all of a sudden that destroys the myth of Australia.
Nakkiah Lui
In the wake of Australia Day, this week's editorial it is written by Nakkiah Lui, a Gamillaroi/Torres Strait Islander woman. Change is about giving up space, and the editorial is a newspaper’s most privileged space.
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News
28 Jan 2017
Ms Dhu's family's fight for prosecutions
Denham Sadler
Ms Dhu’s family is determined not to let the coronial report into her death disappear from the spotlight without prosecutions.
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News
28 Jan 2017
Centrelink’s debt-recovery disaster
The relevant ministers continue to insist the system is working just as intended, which is unarguably true if the metric by which success is judged as revenue for the government.
Mike Seccombe
Centrelink’s flawed system of debt recovery has proved a debacle for the government and a tortuous struggle for those wrongly accused of owing money.
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News
28 Jan 2017
Fear deliberately spread on Manus Island
Janet Galbraith
Crude stories about criminal asylum seekers and cannibal locals were used to foster division and suspicions on Manus Island, aiding Australia’s agenda of obfuscation.
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Opinion
28 Jan 2017
Turnbull in the Trump era
Of all world leaders, Goldman Sachs’ former Australian chief, Malcolm Turnbull, is arguably the most fluent in Trump’s newly restocked swamp’s language – the language of the deal.
Chris Wallace
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Opinion
28 Jan 2017
Error nullius undermines Australia Day
Australia Day as currently celebrated is an anachronistic relic of the discredited terra nullius doctrine. In terms of the need to give proper legal recognition to the fact of unlawful dispossession that started in 1788, it’s important we remove the symbolic suggestion that that process was lawful.
Michael Bradley
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World
28 Jan 2017
Trump’s presidency begins with a bang not a whimper
Hamish McDonald
Focus on US marines in Darwin; testing times ahead; Brexit tensions.
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Culture
28 Jan 2017
Telling truths
Filmmaker Rachel Perkins stays true to her activist upbringing in Jasper Jones, even as she avoids overt political messages.
Steve Dow
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Music
28 Jan 2017
Cherry ripe
With a sharp and unpredictable songwriter, LA’s new wave pop trio Cherry Glazerr are walking in the footsteps of Blondie.
Dave Faulkner
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Diary
28 Jan 2017
Gadfly: Going to extremes
Diarist-at-large Richard Ackland flies about the nation.
Richard Ackland
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Books
28 Jan 2017
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
Reviewer: SH
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Books
28 Jan 2017
Roxane Gay, Difficult Women
Reviewer: LS
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Books
28 Jan 2017
Ali Shaw, The Trees
Reviewer: CR
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Food
28 Jan 2017
Tuna tartare with crushed pea salad
Give peas a chance with the rich flesh and clean flavour of raw tuna.
Andrew McConnell
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Science
28 Jan 2017
Drug defendants
Few researchers working with prohibited drugs such as heroin and psychedelics admit ‘inside knowledge’ of their use, but some argue that the culture of non-disclosure is irresponsible.
Jenny Valentish
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Travel
28 Jan 2017
Service entry
An unexpected outing during a visit to Austria allows access to the secret life of a monastery town.
Roslyn Jolly
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Portrait
28 Jan 2017
Macho libre
Philippine pole-dancer performance artist Eisa Jocson.
Kate Holden
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Quiz
28 Jan 2017
What is the mean of these numbers: 22, 28, 40?
Test your general knowledge with our weekly quiz.
Cindy MacDonald
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Sport
28 Jan 2017
Another shot
Netballer Susan Pettitt on fighting her way back into the Australian Diamonds line-up.
Cindy MacDonald