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Best features – 2023
From politics and private affairs to court battles, culture wars and more: reader favourites from Good Weekend in 2023.
Best of Benjamin Law’s Dicey Topics – 2023
Missy Higgins, Mackenzie Arnold, Richard Harris, John Safran, Michelle Lim Davidson and more: the best of Benjamin Law’s Dicey Topics for 2023.
Best of Two of Us – 2023
Besties, buddies, couples, exes, parents and their kids – and more: some of our favourite Two of Us columns for 2023.
The December 16 edition
Summer Reading 2023: eight short reflections by eight big novelists | The one thing that hit with a thud this year | Christos Tsiolkas’ rules for good writing
The December 9 Edition
52 News Makers 2023: The homegrown headliners rocking Australia | The year in review| Holding onto hope
The December 2 Edition
Style Edit + Christmas special | Meet the madcap filmmaker Taika Waititi | Rebuilding Kangaroo Island’s Southern Ocean Lodge | Zimmermann in Paris
The November 25 Edition
Adolescents, gender transition and the conversations we need to have | Overcoming school-reunion dread | Arnold Schwarzenegger on selflessness
The November 18 Edition
The intense interior life of Treasurer Jim Chalmers | Aussie of the Year Taryn Brumfitt’s body-positivity zeal | Sperm levels are plummeting! Or are they?
The 52 Weekends Away edition
Go on, give yourself a break: Our annual Aussie mini-getaways issue
The November 4 Edition
Australia’s It-Boy Troye Sivan| One doctor’s breakthrough after 50 years of abortion work | Commissioner Anna Cody on sex discrimination
The October 28 Edition
Hudson pear: the cactus ruining our country | Inside Elon Musk’s orbit | Richard Flanagan on grief & gratitude | The Newsreader’s Michelle Lim Davidson
The October 21 Edition
The intensifying debate over classroom discipline | Julia Baird on grieving the death of an ex | A pioneering doctor on how his wife made him a better person
The October 14 Edition
The Arts Issue | Jodi Matterson, the quiet Aussie adored by Kidman and co | A journalist’s brush with Banksy | Indigenous art in the US – and its Hollywood ally
The October 7 Edition
Here comes the son: Is Lachlan Murdoch up to the job?| The photojournalist who captured life in Afghanistan | Matthew Reilly on how to write a good sex scene
The September 30 edition
Kieren Perkins’ plans to fix Aussie sport | David Marr’s murderous family history | Miles Franklin winner Shankari Chandran on this writing life
The September 23 edition
Style Edit: Satu Vänskä, the Finnish virtuoso violinist making waves in Australia | Long-term AIDS survivors on beating the odds | Richard & Christian Wilkins
The September 16 Edition
‘I’m a guinea pig’: how the world’s top melanoma pathologist is treating his own brain cancer | Bullying tactics or simple economics? The AFL’s bold Tassie play
The September 9 Edition
Danielle Laidley: From star AFL player to transgender role model | Training for bushfire season | Australia’s mania for memoirs | Split Enz co-founder Tim Finn