June 24 – 30, 2023
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Paul Bongiorno
Inside Labor’s housing fight
“Anthony Albanese is furious the ‘Greens political party’ – as he insists on always calling them – is blocking his signature Housing Australia Future Fund in the senate and he is now raising the prospect of using it as a trigger for an early election.”
Letters, Cartoon & Editorial
Culture
Profile
Director Warwick Thornton
In The New Boy, Warwick Thornton’s first film in six years, the Kaytetye director tells a mesmerising story of Indigenous spiritual transformation.
The Influence
Robin Fox
When audiovisual artist Robin Fox attended an AC/DC concert in his teens, the viscerality of the experience changed his relationship to sound.
Fiction
A boy like Tommy Sloane
“Tommy Sloane was a wee thing and when he was born, they called him little gumnut because his whole head was hard like a stone and they couldn’t find the spot where you were supposed to be able to stick your finger clean through his skull, as if he was already set before he entered the world. He suckled on his mother but in the end, he stayed thin and so they gave him a bottle, which still didn’t help much except he grew attached to it. Even when he was a lad of seven he kept one in his backpack like a lucky charm, so when his mama found it on the road out to the bay she knew it wasn’t good.”
Books
Life
Puzzles
Quotes
Media
“I don’t think it’s funny. I just think it’s puerile.”
The former British prime minister complains that the Daily Star live-streamed a lettuce to measure her time in office. It was unfair to put her up against such a hardy vegetable.
Music
“There was a subject I really wanted to do but everybody was saying to me: ‘You can’t, because you’re not from that country.’ ”
The composer complains about the impact of political correctness on his work. Of course, he lived among cats for many years before attempting to tell their stories.
Family
“It might be distasteful being here but my family would want me to be at the Blink-182 show as it’s my favourite band...”
The stepson of a billionaire lost on a submarine trip defends his decision to attend a concert. A large adult son who loves Mark Hoppus is honestly not the weirdest part of this story.
Auctions
“It’s legal. It isn’t illegal. We aren’t selling drugs to kids.”
The managing director of Danielle Elizabeth Auctions defends a sale of Nazi memorabilia. He clarified that while he wasn’t selling drugs to kids, a worrying number of his buyers were politicians.
Pottery
“Well, we just, we didn’t make money out of them.”
The friend of Warren Entsch’s wife, Yolonde, explains how the pair came to be awarded a $213,725 grant from the Morrison government. The money was to run pottery workshops in a remote Indigenous community, because of course it was.
Technology
“The words ‘cis’ or ‘cisgender’ are considered slurs on this platform.”
The Twitter chairman explains his approach to managing transphobia on the platform. Anyway, there are so many other words that better describe him.
ISRAEL–HAMAS WAR
