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Good Weekend Superquiz and Saturday Target Time, March 6
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Kids in the crossfire: ‘It’s not just that they can’t read - it affects every minute of their day’
Teaching literacy is a new frontier in the culture wars, with students who struggle with this most vital life skill the primary casualties.
- by Jordan Baker
‘Life at home just didn’t make sense’: the mental trauma of foreign correspondent Sally Sara
Covering war, famine and other atrocities left its mark on the celebrated ABC reporter. In her struggle to recover, she turned to therapy and the creative release of writing a play.
- by Tim Elliott
Opposites do attract – just ask federal MP Paul Fletcher
It took years for the federal Minister for Communications and the Arts to realise the woman he’d shared a house with during university days was a rare gem.
- by Anne Hyland
Chris Bowen: ‘I could live my entire political career, never be leader and retire satisfied’
The shadow minister for climate change and energy on achieving net zero emissions by 2050, why turning 40 was a fitness turning point, and his family’s grief.
- by Benjamin Law
In America today, we look for any excuse to celebrate
This is my modest hope: next Mardi Gras, my children can come to a bakery with me, pick out a King Cake, and eat it with abandon at a table inside.
- by Amelia Lester
Caustically loveable Fran Lebowitz shows New York in the worst light
The TV series Pretend It’s a City finds the 70-year-old professional curmudgeon eloquently outlining her complaints about the Big Apple. Director Martin Scorsese can barely stop laughing.
- by Barry Divola
Why positive quotes have plenty of negatives
It’s time to stand up to the onslaught of inspirational quotes.
- by Tim Elliott
How do we turn down food that we can’t eat?
We are a Jewish vegetarian household. Then our Chinese neighbours dropped by and presented us with a tray of handmade pork dumplings.
- by Danny Katz
Helen Goh’s lemon and currant cream cakes
Baked using just a small amount of yeast, these delicate lemon cakes have a texture somewhere between a rich bread and pound cake.
- by Helen Goh
Neil Perry’s wagyu bolognese
Don’t be afraid to use secondary, and therefore cheaper, cuts of wagyu for this foolproof crowd-pleaser; they’ll make the ragu not only more affordable but richer and tastier, too.
- by Neil Perry