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Bill Shorten: between fear and ideas
The Opposition leader talks about the road ahead for Labor
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NBN Co’s former CEO on how the Coalition broke the internet
Chasing the miracle of gene therapy
For Megan Donnell’s family, the DNA-altering revolution cannot come soon enough
Arts & Letters
Rats, heroes and Kevin Rudd’s ‘The PM Years’
This memoir answers some questions about his deposal and return but raises others
Tracking time: Gerald Murnane’s ‘A Season on Earth’
Forty years on, the author’s second novel is reunited with its lost half
A French Western? Jacques Audiard on ‘The Sisters Brothers’
The celebrated director explains how he made a Hollywood staple his own
Clicks, plinks, hoots and thuds: Matmos’s ‘Plastic Anniversary’
The American experimental duo embrace the ‘sounds’ of a ubiquitous material
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‘Zebra and Other Stories’ by Debra Adelaide Difficult-to-grasp characters populate this new collection
‘Exploded View’ by Carrie Tiffany This new novel is most striking in how it diverges from its predecessors
In-depth analysis of the moments that define the day from Paddy Manning.
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