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“Nobody’s ever coped with Covid before and you were sort of guessing as you went. They should have been educated guesses, but we got them wrong.” trib.al/tlhl9h0
Alan Joyce’s life after Qantas
Alan Joyce says he never needs to work again – he’s happy to defend his tenure at Qantas and spend the rest of his life ‘under the radar screen’.
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As the new Victorian premier moves swiftly to set up a royal commission into the state’s construction sector, Labor insiders reflect on what it may find. Margaret Simons reports. trib.al/4IEu7iU
Where will Victoria’s royal commission lead?
In the week of Jacinta Allan's ousting as Victorian premier, Labor insiders reveal what they expect out of the royal commission into the construction sector.
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In response to being sued by Gunns, Bob Brown said he would not be deterred from taking action “even if it means losing every penny, every home comfort”. Corporations like Woodside rely on most people seeing such sacrifices as unimaginable. trib.al/eZza5XN
How Woodside lost to this protester
For three years, the author has fought a strategic lawsuit brought by Woodside Energy. Last Thursday, she won.
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New work from Tusiata Avia for National Poetry Month: When the huia were all gone Maori had survived the genocide. They walked over slivers of land and called out in the voices of huia We remember you, O, rangatira. Ka maumahara mātou ki a koe, e rangatira. trib.al/dD4L1zM
Two poets
Ever since I wrote the first bird poem / I have been swearing to the gods of colonisation / I will not write another one. / Sparrows, starlings, pigeons, geese / Trafalgar Square everywhere you look / but Ruru landed outside my window last night.
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"The future is happening and we are not up to it," writes Stan Grant. “That’s the truth. All we have left is our lies.” trib.al/Vib0qdo
Finding the future in Africa
I fell under the sway of England at an early age. My great-aunt had a Constable print on her wall; a bucolic scene: hayfields, a narrow road and a boy drinking from a stream. There was a world I could escape into.
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Schoenbrun wants to gesture towards something that is both transgressive and therapeutic. They are content to rely, however, on an audience whose command of buzzwords such as “the queer gaze” will suffice to flatter their intelligence. trib.al/jokT9cg
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma offers little between the buzzwords
Its ironic detachment and meme-inflected humour makes Jane Schoenbrun’s film about horror, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, feel like a protracted skit.
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"Labor is now the only mainstream party in Australia that can govern in our own right,” says Anthony Albanese. trib.al/V0fncvR
The Albanese interview: ‘We don’t want to make Pauline Hanson a martyr’
In an exclusive interview, the prime minister outlines his plans to fight One Nation, his views on Gina Rinehart and his faith in Labor as the only party that can govern in its own right.
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Dave Eggers’ latest novel, the limber, rollicking 'Contrapposto', was built over 20 years, starting as notes stored in a box while he attended art school. It follows the decades-long friendship of Cricket and Olympia, who meet as kids in a small Indiana town. trib.al/566xC2u
Contrapposto
The Saturday Paper is a quality weekly newspaper, dedicated to narrative long-form journalism.
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'Camp Miasma' has a kind of meme-inflected, Rick and Morty-esque humour that makes the movie feel like a protracted Saturday Night Live skit – incapable of sincerity because every moment is filtered through several layers of ironic detachment. trib.al/2i5ZDgP
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma offers little between the buzzwords
Its ironic detachment and meme-inflected humour makes Jane Schoenbrun’s film about horror, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, feel like a protracted skit.
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“When a headline promises a ‘super El Niño’ and the season turns out to be bad rather than biblical, climate change deniers are ready to pounce, claiming scientists are crying wolf,” writes Joëlle Gergis. trib.al/6DTQARK
The threat El Niño poses to climate science
When a headline promises a ‘super El Niño’ and the season turns out to be bad rather than biblical, climate change deniers are ready to pounce, claiming scientists are crying wolf.
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With the surge of support for One Nation, the starkness of the alternative for running the country created “a sense of urgency” right across Labor, from parliamentarians to grassroots members and union delegates, writes Paul Bongiorno. trib.al/Qbc4oAz
Labor trades on Hanson missteps
Far from developing a strategy of denying oxygen to Pauline Hanson and her insurgency, the Labor Party has formally decided to make her central to its re-election plans – not only federally but in the looming Victorian and New South Wales elections.
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The prime minister says One Nation’s positions have infected the Coalition to the extent that he sees Opposition Leader Angus Taylor and One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts borrowing from the same “radical right-wing agenda”. trib.al/Ebz9YLt
The Albanese interview: ‘We don’t want to make Pauline Hanson a martyr’
In an exclusive interview, the prime minister outlines his plans to fight One Nation, his views on Gina Rinehart and his faith in Labor as the only party that can govern in its own right.
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Editorial: The NSW ICAC probe into Liberal Party donations shows how its federal counterpart, the National Anti-Corruption Commission is flawed by its scope and by its cowardice on public hearings. trib.al/oAVTaL8
Phone tap justice
Whatever else might be established by the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption’s probe into Liberal Party donations, it has already proved how inadequate is its federal counterpart.
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Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya is a conceptual masterwork. The text itself disappointingly underwhelming, writes Robert Reid. trib.al/xped6IX
Joanna Murray-Smith’s Uncle Vanya adaptation a missed opportunity
Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya is a masterpiece of tragicomic self-consciousness, despite a lacklustre adaptation.
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“The fact that One Nation can't govern without the Liberals, and the Liberals can't govern without One Nation, is just a fact," says Anthony Albanese. trib.al/8HgO1yR
The Albanese interview: ‘We don’t want to make Pauline Hanson a martyr’
In an exclusive interview, the prime minister outlines his plans to fight One Nation, his views on Gina Rinehart and his faith in Labor as the only party that can govern in its own right.
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One Nation is polling above a fifth of the primary vote on a platform that dismisses climate change as “pseudo-speak for global wealth transfer”, writes Joëlle Gergis. trib.al/JpuNax0
The threat El Niño poses to climate science
When a headline promises a ‘super El Niño’ and the season turns out to be bad rather than biblical, climate change deniers are ready to pounce, claiming scientists are crying wolf.
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The prospect of Hanson’s party actually winning government or playing a significant role in it was a galvanising factor behind the staging of Labor's conference and the willingness of factions to demonstrate unity of purpose, reports Paul Bongiorno. trib.al/o2gWEfL
Labor trades on Hanson missteps
Far from developing a strategy of denying oxygen to Pauline Hanson and her insurgency, the Labor Party has formally decided to make her central to its re-election plans – not only federally but in the looming Victorian and New South Wales elections.
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“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” Muruwari playwright Jane Harrison paraphrases L. P. Hartley’s famous line twice in 'Bennelong in London', her new play commissioned by Sydney Theatre Company. trib.al/k8KssYU
Jane Harrison’s Bennelong in London shows spirit
Jane Harrison’s new play, Bennelong in London, has the charm and emotional honesty of her best works.
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Labor insiders fear that even after the leadership change in Victoria, it may be too late to regain the electorate’s confidence, writes Paul Bongiorno. trib.al/3EiYIjc
Labor trades on Hanson missteps
Far from developing a strategy of denying oxygen to Pauline Hanson and her insurgency, the Labor Party has formally decided to make her central to its re-election plans – not only federally but in the looming Victorian and New South Wales elections.
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Much here will resonate for modern audiences, writes Robert Reid. Much more than only the “broken fragments of eternal truths”. trib.al/gUOw4ph
Joanna Murray-Smith’s Uncle Vanya adaptation a missed opportunity
Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya is a masterpiece of tragicomic self-consciousness, despite a lacklustre adaptation.
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This can be served as a starter, a leisurely lunch or simply piled onto good, toasted bread. trib.al/SUKQQaz
Beetroot and smoked trout ‘tonnato’
The Saturday Paper is a quality weekly newspaper, dedicated to narrative long-form journalism.
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Jane Harrison's new play, handsomely mounted by Sydney Theatre Company, might occasionally feel like a history lesson, but when it has space to just be a play, it’s something special. trib.al/vTw2VYf
Jane Harrison’s Bennelong in London shows spirit
Jane Harrison’s new play, Bennelong in London, has the charm and emotional honesty of her best works.
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Anthony Albanese on the death threats made against him: “There’s someone in court most weeks for many months now, relating to me, and there are a number of people on remand. It’s pretty serious. It's not unique to me ... but that's part of the anger.” trib.al/pLOYAnT
The Albanese interview: ‘We don’t want to make Pauline Hanson a martyr’
In an exclusive interview, the prime minister outlines his plans to fight One Nation, his views on Gina Rinehart and his faith in Labor as the only party that can govern in its own right.
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Weimar' depicts a city that is self-absorbed and parochial as it witnesses the rise of the Third Reich. Katja Hoyer uses personal diaries, news stories and city records to show how ordinary citizens can never escape the shadow of high politics. trib.al/IcmXkrC
Weimar
The Saturday Paper is a quality weekly newspaper, dedicated to narrative long-form journalism.
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