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Popular this week: Old grudges and factional maneuvering are complicating the NSW Labor leadership race.https://buff.ly/2EQF7mj 

Climate scientists and journalists face a dilemma of how to share information without promoting a sense of inevitability, fatalism and nihilism.https://buff.ly/2ZckMQ4 

“News Corp has actively cheered the expansion of the Coalition's police state. But now that one of its own is the target, News Corp is suddenly opposed to the world it helped create.”https://buff.ly/2ERb7GQ 

It was no secret that Folau is deeply religious, like plenty of other rugby players.https://buff.ly/2KuAB0p 

A media freedom act isn’t going to protect many who need it.https://buff.ly/2KFZhDl 

We need bipartisan support for a bill of rights.https://buff.ly/2WoMqMA 

But are tax cuts the best way to stimulate growth, or merely a temporary patch-job to cover up our economy’s weakening foundations?https://buff.ly/2ZcFFKG 

When artists can’t survive in a place making the art they want to make, they leave for a place where they can.https://buff.ly/2KywPmC 

From "climate change" to "climate crisis"; experts say there are pros and cons to every doomsday prediction.https://buff.ly/2ZckMQ4 

Australia’s greenhouse emissions have soared in new data belatedly released by the government nearly a week after it was required to. https://buff.ly/2wAU4nY 

Raids this week are the outcome of more than a decade spent steadily expanding the national security apparatus, giving agencies greater power to erode our civil liberties.https://buff.ly/2XtxGZv 

“This is how it happens. A story rears up in the media, a new horror, circles for a couple of days, and then disappears. The everyday demands of existence, and then the whole thing disappears again.”https://buff.ly/2XsUZm3 

A concerted media effort to change the debate around a bill of rights in Australia would represent a real chance of curbing the police state that has developed in Australia, writes @BernardKeanehttps://buff.ly/2WoMqMA 

Good morning, early birds. Politicians have called for greater powers protecting freedom of the press, and Labor is reconsidering its opposition to the Coalition's tax cuts. It's the news you need to know:https://buff.ly/2WqmNLm 

The sudden attack on Australia’s free media has surprised some, but the government’s power to conduct such raids has been steadily increasing throughout the 21st century.https://buff.ly/2WjFZFU 

Was Greens MP Adam Bandt correct when he tweeted that one in four people living in poverty work full time?https://buff.ly/2Xr3CgR 

Josh Frydenberg says there are "domestic challenges" to economic growth. The main challenge is one he and his government have created, and it's smashing the economy.https://buff.ly/2wDSm5l