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News
4 Feb 2017
Manus refugees await US resettlement deal
The suicide attempt was a day after Trump’s executive order, and tragically just hours before it was announced that the deal might still be on.
Martin McKenzie-Murray
With the US–Australia refugee deal in chaos, the real victims on Manus and Nauru live in anguished hope.
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4 Feb 2017
Inside the fight for the Australian Greens
Attention is diverted to the bread and circuses of right-wing politics at the moment, not just here but globally. But that will settle down and people will look for answers.
Karen Middleton
As battlelines are drawn between ‘the Tony Abbott’ of the Greens and the party’s elders, deeper questions have emerged about style and purpose.
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Opinion
4 Feb 2017
Systematic racism, dehumanisation and Islamophobia
Australia’s system of collective punishment is the clear bilateral blueprint of what Trump’s administration is trying to achieve and normalise.
Roj Amedi
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News
4 Feb 2017
Internal resistance in Trump’s America
Mike Seccombe
The US administration’s gag on state agencies is the other side of the Trump team’s own skill at fostering dissent online.
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News
4 Feb 2017
Wayne Morrison's family questions secrecy over his death
John Power
More than four months since the death in custody of an Indigenous man, his family awaits details from correctional services of how it happened.
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News
4 Feb 2017
Economics don't add up for rural relocation
Say you get a job in a regional area [and] the company closes that office. You’re stuffed.
Claire Connelly
While the deputy PM sees relocation to rural areas as a solution to poor housing affordability in capital cities, the risks are high without government support for infrastructure and planning.
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Opinion
4 Feb 2017
Malcolm Turnbull caught out on donation and US deal
When asked why he wouldn’t reveal how much he had given, Turnbull’s answer was as opaque as it was shifty. On Channel Nine, Laurie Oakes accused him of ‘looking like a hypocrite’.
Paul Bongiorno
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World
4 Feb 2017
Turnbull stays shtum as Trump message changes
Hamish McDonald
Bannon fodder; Fanning flames of anti-Muslim views; Wall Street falters
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Culture
4 Feb 2017
Breaking Bard
German actor Lars Eidinger, performing his arresting Richard III at the Adelaide Festival next month, talks about Shakespeare, Trump and the value of being open to contradiction.
Peter Craven
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Film
4 Feb 2017
Mission eccelsiastical
In his tale of Portuguese Jesuit priests travelling in Japan at a time when Christianity was outlawed, Martin Scorsese returns to the complexities of faith, and makes his best film in 20 years
Christos Tsiolkas
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Diary
4 Feb 2017
Gadfly: St John’s wart
Diarist-at-large Richard Ackland flies about the nation.
Richard Ackland
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Books
4 Feb 2017
Paul Auster, 4321
Reviewer: CG
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Books
4 Feb 2017
Peter Polites, Down the Hume
Reviewer: KN
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Books
4 Feb 2017
Stephen Greenall, Winter Traffic
Reviewer: QSS
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Food
4 Feb 2017
Mussels plaki
Talking Turkey with a tasty seafood sensation.
Andrew McConnell
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Health
4 Feb 2017
Looming success
A UNSW professor has created a type of fabric that replicates bone tissue, with potential for wide-ranging medical, commercial and safety applications.
Michele Tydd
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Travel
4 Feb 2017
Sushi train
Beneath one of Tokyo’s busiest train lines is an izakaya bar run by an expat Englishman, the inheritor of his Japanese family’s long-running deal in the city’s famous fish market.
Hamish McDonald
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Portrait
4 Feb 2017
New direction
The dual life-changing moments for cinema historian and charity founder Joel Archer.
Christopher Currie
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Quiz
4 Feb 2017
Which city is further north: San Francisco or Rome?
Test your general knowledge with our weekly quiz.
Cindy MacDonald
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Sport
4 Feb 2017
The bantam menace
Super bantamweight Jason Moloney on his love for boxing and the battle with the scales.
Jack Kerr
