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Yesterday's Papers: Lying and cheating

In this week's Yesterday's Papers playlist: a soundtrack for lying and cheating all over the world.

Cardinal George Pell (Image: AAP/David Crosling)

How Pell, Folau and their supporters seized 'victimhood' from the left

While millionaires and conservative commentators play the free speech victim, the 'woke' left has been making a transition of its own.

Yesterday's Papers: On the campaign trail

In the latest edition of the Yesterday's Papers playlist: songs for an election in a (possibly burning) America.

Professor Jenny Hocking (Image: AAP/Peter Rae)

'Impenetrable, almost impossible': piercing the Palace Letters' veil of secrecy

The legal fight for their release seemed overwhelming, but Jenny Hocking knew that if there was any way she could continue, she must.

Scott Morrison and singer Guy Sebastian (Image: AAP/Joel Carrett)

The arts could be the most powerful political force in the land but it needs to put up a fight

It’s an iron law of politics that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Yet despite 25 years of the arts being squeezed, it's barely squeaked.

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Yesterday's Papers: Bad romance springs eternal in NSW parliament

Welcome to Yesterday's Papers, a fortnightly musical playlist themed around topical events. This week... bad romance in the halls of power.

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Here's some happy news. Moulin Rouge! is kicking arse on a darkened Broadway

Theatre and arts may be suffering the world over, but an Australian production is still managing to earn accolades on Broadway.

A 2009 CTP production of Smashed (Image: David Sheehy)

Performing arts lose their starring role as university cuts start to bite

Monash's reputation as a leading light in theatre and music is in jeopardy as a lack of funding forces job cuts.

Author JK Rowling (Image: Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

JK Rowling and the curse of the trans character who wasn't there

It's fine to disagree with JK Rowling. But the abuse the author has received on social media is simply not acceptable.

Ermonela Jaho performs Opera Australia's production of <em>La Traviata</em> in 2017 (Image: AAP/Dan Himbrechts)

Arts companies are fighting to the death for crisis funds

The all-in brawl is being dubbed the 'arts hunger games'. Paradoxically, the only way to get ahead is to make sure you're on the brink of collapse.

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