100 Years of Australian Songwriting

100 Years of Australian Songwriting is a landmark anthology exploring how songs have shaped Australia's identity, culture, and history over the past century. With a foreword by music luminary Jenny…

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Of course, widows with investment properties elicit more media sympathy than widows who rent

How much sympathy are we to have for 'widows with a negatively geared investment property'? A lot, it seems, as the media demands Labor move faster on the so-called 'widow’s tax'.

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They won't count, but we will: Tracking Indigenous disappearance in Australia

A new international partnership between The Disappeared Project, Locate International and Forensic Human Identification Co. will build the first database and DNA programme on Indigenous disappearance.

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Acting as evasive as Albo: A guide

When someone asks you a straightforward question, think of how Anthony Albanese would respond.

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Thus concludes another instalment of Australia's greatest political ritual: knifing your leader

Offing a party leader is a long established ritual with many compulsory steps. How well has Ben Carroll fulfilled them in axing Jacinta Allan?

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An arts space in Sydney was axed due to an archaic 1848 law. But what does 'offensive trade' really mean?

I'm representing an arts collective kicked out of a former church because the landlord deemed their work 'offensive'. At the heart of the case is a key question: can one invoke legal authority in…

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Like it or not, this is Nolan's Odyssey, not Homer's

Christopher Nolan has created a tactile, immersive and slightly sanitised telling of The Odyssey for a modern audience. These choices will inevitably annoy some viewers.

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'Good art requires space for different ideas': Jayson Gillham makes an uplifting return to the stage

Jayson Gillham's touring show with Palestinian-Jordanian pianist Iyad Sughayer is free of bitterness. It's also noticeably absent from media coverage.

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A tale of two inquiries: The other racism inquiry that’s been ignored

The same as we have a royal commission into antisemitism, an inquiry into racism and violence at Indigenous people is being largely ignored.

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Programs: Spin Cycle: Live In Conversation, Spin Cycle — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio

Joined by guests Raf Epstein, Antoun Issa & Najmba Sambul, Spin Cycle hosts this special event to ask the question - who killed journalism?

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Events: Spin Cycle: Live In Conversation — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio

Who killed journalism? Once upon a time we all read newspapers. Now the US president tells us that's fake news while Aunty Jean is talking chemtrails with great authority because Facebook told her…

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The Snoop: ANU's prolonged silence, bad news for Andrew Wilkie, and more

Plus: Pauline Hanson and Gina Rinehart take a gals' trip to Italy!

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Bernard Keane faces YOUR questions on his Big Build criticism, Snowy Hydro, wealth taxes and more

Politics editor Bernard Keane returns to the podcast to answer subscriber questions in a dedicated Q&A episode on Cut Through.

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Two photographs of Hatam Yekta tell the story of Australia

Hatam Yekta, a 36-year-old Kurdish asylum seeker, has spent 13 years languishing in Port Moresby. His body, once the kind revered by many Australians, is now critically ill.

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Modi's visit leaves Indian diaspora trapped between Hindu nationalists and white supremacists

White nationalists protesting Indian immigration in Australia were drowned out by a loud and proud crowd during Modi's visit. Unfortunately, that crowd represented another political toxin.

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Live In Conversation: Spin Cycle — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio

Win a double pass to see Spin Cycle in conversation at Triple R on Thursday 16 July at 7pm.

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'Slave to the metrics': The industry change that launched Stefanovic’s career and killed Australian TV

'When it was first introduced it was a bit of a disaster. And it continued to have rippling effects on the industry.'

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As Sarah Henderson calls triple zero and winds up in the sin bin, she joins an unproud history of political own goals

A less than elite list of Australian politicians who tried to catch their opponents in a gotcha moment... only to get got themselves.

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Well done, Angus? Now it’s time to dump Abbott, Antic and all your One Nation hangers-on

Liberal leader Angus Taylor has finally called out One Nation, but he still needs to purge the Hansonites in his ranks.

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'Slave to the metrics': The industry change that launched Stefanovic’s career and killed Australian TV

'When it was first introduced it was a bit of a disaster. And it continued to have rippling effects on the industry.'

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Insiders reveal the real story behind Karl Stefanovic, a monster of Nine's own making

From ‘24-carat fuckwit' to 'boy-wonder', there's no shortage of opinions about the breakfast TV stalwart, and how his career went from strength, to strength, to scandal.

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