Politics
Labor’s first extinction
State and federal governments have protected Tasmania’s foreign-owned salmon industry, and the imminent loss of the Maugean skate exposes the price of such state capture
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In the age of the individual, are we losing our understanding of the collective and our sense of shared humanity?
The Albanese government made promises on transparency, but its use of FOI and NDAs is still disturbingly widespread
Equal access to jury service has a short history, and it’s still unbalanced by gender divisions in domestic labour
Flood-prone houses are being demolished across Brisbane’s riverside suburbs, leaving unnervingly uniform blocks of bright green grass
The author’s correspondence with his late friend and colleague on the finer points of boiling water for tea
NMBW Architecture Studio’s innovative inner-Melbourne office conversion exposes the true cost of Modernism’s ‘less is more’
Within the veil: Chunky Move’s ‘You, Beauty’
Artistic director Antony Hamilton’s latest work, debuting at Rising festival, envelops the audience within its massive inflatable set
The big easel: The life and work of Jan Senbergs
The film director remembers his friend and brother-in-law, the celebrated Latvian-Australian fine artist and printmaker
The novelist and essayist’s revelatory exploration of the ocean depths goes beyond science to offer historical, cultural and moral contexts
Nam Le’s ‘36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem’
The writer’s long-awaited return is a poetry collection that probes the risks of reclaiming histories of colonial traumas
‘Everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people’
The author’s lifelong embrace of solitude and small enclosed spaces is reflected in a line from Chekhov
‘Feud – Capote vs. The Swans’ delivers camp absurdity
Plus, Ukraine through its people’s eyes, new Australian comedy on show, and ‘Shōgun’ returns in full gory glory
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
Skipping meals, dumpster diving and cereal for dinner
National affairs correspondent for The Saturday Paper Mike Seccombe on what some call the great price gouge and whether the government is doing enough to address the rising cost of putting food on our plates.
HOST Ashlynne McGhee
GUEST Mike Seccombe
Australia, the ‘land of suck-it-up’
Executive director of the Australia Institute Richard Denniss on when prices will finally stop going up – and the kind of country we risk becoming once the crisis is finally over.
HOST Ashlynne McGhee
GUEST Richard Denniss
‘A viper’s nest’: How Karen Webb became top cop
Senior reporter for The Saturday Paper Rick Morton, on who Karen Webb really is and how she climbed her way through the vipers nest of the NSW police.
HOST Ashlynne McGhee
GUEST Rick Morton