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Lena Dunham’s new rom-com series mines her life with her British musician husband, but the fun and froth gives way to an ...
Wind farm near Albany, Western Australia / CC BY-SA 2.5 The government’s climate-action agenda has its predictable detractors, but the current decentralised approach is risking a fall in wider public ...
Max Ogden is a lifelong unionist, including a career as an industrial officer at the ACTU between 1988 and 2000. He is the author of Long View From the Left.
Kevin Macdonald’s documentary inadvertently downplays Houston’s impact on pop music history There’s a piece of handycam footage in Kevin Macdonald’s new documentary, Whitney, that gives the film, ...
‘Mira Gojak / Elizabeth Newman’ illustrates the possibilities for curated shows in commercial galleries The curated exhibition is often seen as the domain of the non-commercial gallery or large-scale ...
How the COVID-19 crisis could be catastrophic for Australia’s already vulnerable arts sector The global coronavirus pandemic is escalating so rapidly that an observation made in the morning is likely ...
What might be needed to convince Türkiye to clear the way for an Australia–Pacific partnership to host the COP31 climate summit?
The RBA is discovering that providing people with more knowledge about its decisions can be hazardous Finance, like politics, runs on information. There’s the kind that’s provided officially, and then ...
The end of Cosmos after 20 years is a blow to Australian science journalism, at a time when we desperately need its insights to counter misinformation ...
Kiti is a PALM worker, one of about 11,000 employed in meat processing on temporary visas under the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme. PALM workers now make up almost a quarter of the ...
A common critique of reality television is that it’s “fake”: scenarios are highly engineered and contestants act unnaturally because they know they’re being filmed. Canadian comedian-auteur Nathan ...