All evidence shows Eric Abetz’s hardline welfare reforms will not get people into work. His motives lie elsewhere.
News
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“I realised I had lost 12 kilograms. I had started to get scabs, had no money, few friendships, nowhere to live, and while the psychotic fog lifted, I struggled to shake off the residual paranoia.”
Researching ice addiction, the writer moved in to a meth house. Over three months, he became seduced by the drug and descended into psychosis.
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Relations in the firing line in wake of MH17
Condemnation offset by caution is imperative in negotiating the aftermath of MH17. But for grief-stricken families, it means little.
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CCTV installation for crime prevention, or ’friends of the government’?
“The shortcomings of CCTV are many and do not match the cost to install, monitor and maintain.”
A $50 million funding program for CCTV installation is touted to make our streets safer, despite studies that show cameras don’t prevent crime. So is it really just aimed at protecting ‘friends of the government’?
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Nationals urge tougher tactics as Clive Palmer plays centre
With Clive Palmer and a handful of backroom advisers calling the senate shots, some Nationals have decided it’s time to ‘muscle up’.
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Netanyahu plays into the hands of Hamas
Adelaide may lose subs; ASIO files reveal AFP link to Yugoslav intelligence.
Opinion
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Guy Rundle
The deal with Clive Palmer
“Every mobile phone sales rep in every shopping mall booth understands what Palmer is doing better than the people he and his party are dealing with in the senate.”
Letters, Poem & Editorial
Culture
Is there anything writer, actor and director Wayne Blair can’t do?
He’s worked with Oscar winners, directed a hit film and now brings to life the story of a revered Indigenous Australian.
Hip-hop crew One Day’s ’Mainline’ is a track record
Sydney hip-hop crew One Day’s collaboration is about their days growing up together on the ‘Mainline’.
Moveable feasts with The New Yorker’s Amelia Lester
From Sydney's north shore to Harvard to The New Yorker… Breaking bread with Amelia Lester.
Food
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Delicious lime and vanilla bean tart
Looking for something soft and giving? Then try this tart with a heart.
Life
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The long road to freeing the world of HIV/AIDS
Antiretroviral drugs have been successful in holding HIV at bay. But the quest for an AIDS-free generation has a long way to go.
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Flight of fancy as butterflies re-emerge in high fashion
This season’s metamorphosis of the butterfly from tacky tattoo to high fashion proves image is everything.
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Straight shooter: Jeremy Cameron, 21, AFL player
He's a rising star of the AFL, but Jeremy Cameron's 2014 season has been cruelly cut short by injury.
Books
The Quiz
1. Where is the human body are the lachrymal glands located?
2. Who was the United States’ first female African-American secretary of state?
3. Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo star in the latest film from Once writer-director John Carney. What is its name? (Bonus points for naming the male and female stars of Once.)
4. Bouillabaisse had humble beginnings as a soup cooked by fishermen in which French port?
5. The Sesame Street character Grover has what colour fur?
6. What is the collective noun for a group of finches?
7. Does Tanzania lie to the north or south of Kenya?
8. In February 1958, a flight carrying players and officials from which English soccer team crashed during take-off at an airport in West Germany?
9. Which organisation’s name is, in Arabic, an acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement?
10. Who was Australia’s flag-bearer at the opening ceremony of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games?
Quotes
REFUGEES
“I’m actually quite offended by these statements.”
The immigration department secretary responds to evidence at the Australian Human Rights Commission’s inquiry into children in detention that conditions in centres are designed to “break” asylum seekers.
POLICE
“Just a bit of fun would have been to give her the police cap and have a photo taken like that. That would have been fun.”
The Gold Coast city councillor, who knows what fun is, expresses dismay at the AFP officer photographed pretending to arrest singer Lily Allen.
POLITICS
“On any interpretation of the multiple vouchers ... there is not one day the vouchers reflect the travel undertaken.”
The ACT chief justice finds former speaker Peter Slipper inappropriately used parliamentary taxi vouchers to visit wineries. She is silent on the appropriateness of the RoboCop sunglasses he wore to court.
ART
“They’re just metal birds, dear. Bunnings sells them, attached to a Gardman Antique Hanging Bird Feeder, for only $20.99.”
The conservative columnist parses Tracey Emin’s sculpture for Sydney, The Distance of Your Heart, proving his taste in garden ornaments is as poor as his taste in art.
BUSINESS
“The critics of business, the mining industry and profits, I don’t see them pegging tenements as all Australians can.”
Australia’s richest woman complains again that Australian working conditions should be more like those of Guinea. Familial litigation is also presumably better in the tiny republic.
SPORT
“A bit shit.”
The Jamaican sprinter reportedly dismisses the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, although he is quick to deny he said this. He is also alleged to have said “the Olympics were better”, which is self-evident.
