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The interesting Mr Williams
At a time when the ABC faces more pressure than ever before, is its new chair the right person for the job?
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As a byelection draws the nation’s focus to the scrappy suburb of the author’s childhood, a visit reveals the damage wrought by the housing crisis
At a time when the ABC faces more pressure than ever before, is its new chair the right person for the job?
Online misogyny touted by the likes of Andrew Tate (awaiting trial for human trafficking and rape) is radicalising Australian schoolboys
Tax reform should not be centred on what we want, but on who we want to be
Amid questions of relevance and culture war hostilities, the ABC’s charter clearly makes the case for a government-funded national broadcaster
Online misogyny touted by the likes of Andrew Tate (awaiting trial for human trafficking and rape) is radicalising Australian schoolboys
How systemic misconceptions around women’s guilt led to a 20-year miscarriage of justice for Kathleen Folbigg
In ‘House of Gods’, Sydney’s Muslim community gets to be complicated
Plus, Barnaby Joyce shines in ‘Nemesis’, Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennott deliver ‘Bottoms’, and Chloë Sevigny and Molly Ringwald step up for ‘Feud: Capote vs. The Swans’.
International Film Festival Rotterdam highlights
Films from Iran, Ukraine and Bundaberg were deserving winners at this year’s festival
‘Expats’ drills down on Hong Kong’s class divide
Plus, Netflix swallows Trent Dalton, Deborah Mailman remains in ‘Total Control’ and ‘Vanderpump Rules’ returns for another season
Three overlooked albums of spiritual jazz from 2023
Recent releases by kora player John Haycock, trumpeter Matthew Halsall and 14-piece jazz ensemble Ancient Infinity Orchestra feel like a refuge from reality
Tax reform should not be centred on what we want, but on who we want to be
As a byelection draws the nation’s focus to the scrappy suburb of the author’s childhood, a visit reveals the damage wrought by the housing crisis
By failing to take Indigenous knowledge seriously, a scientific paper speculating on the origin of WA desert ‘fairy circles’ misses the mark
The experience of literally finding one’s voice as a non-binary person after the physical transformations of hormone therapy, and what that process meant for a sense of self
An imagined life: David Malouf
Celebrating the literary great’s 90th birthday with a visit to his incongruous home of Surfers Paradise to discuss a life in letters
Full circle: The Parramatta Aquatic Centre
The sunken circle of Grimshaw and ABA’s public pool design is a nod to Governor Brisbane’s nearby 19th-century Bath House
How the Australian screenwriter of ‘Poor Things’, who cut his teeth on shows such as ‘The Secret Life of Us’, earnt his second Oscar nomination
The dread of the author: ‘American Fiction’ and ‘Argylle’
Cord Jefferson’s satire about Black artists fighting white perceptions of their work runs out of ideas, while Matthew Vaughn’s spy movie parody has no ideas of its own
Sheila Heti’s ‘Alphabetical Diaries’
The Canadian writer’s presentation of sentence-long entries from her diaries, organised alphabetically, delivers a playful and unpredictable self-examination
The American author and critic’s essay collection moves from her gripes with contemporary cultural criticism to personal reflection
‘When I hear about the hole in the sky / Saltwater wells in my eyes’
The author is pleased to learn Julian Lennon had it wrong about a hole in the ozone layer, putting his Tasmanian childhood anxieties at ease
Rosie Batty and a decade of public grieving
Associate editor of The Saturday Paper, Martin McKenzie-Murray, on what he learnt about grief after following Rosie Batty’s story for a decade.
HOST Ange McCormack
GUEST Martin McKenzie-Murray
Gail Jones Was Saved by Reading
Michael sits down with Gail Jones to discuss One Another, as well as desire, hauntings, and Joseph Conrad.
HOST Michael Williams
GUEST Gail Jones
Scott Morrison leaves parliament: A winner or a loser?
Author of The Game, Sean Kelly on Scott Morrison’s final speech, and whether he really won or lost at the game of politics.
HOST Ange McCormack
GUEST Sean Kelly