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Peter Dutton, Donald Trump Jr and the Australian weapons mogul

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As Trump’s radical reshaping of the US pulls into focus, so too has the list of those who have gained entry to his inner circle.  That list...

Trapped in a Cambodian scam factory

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Most Australians have been targeted by a scam attempt, from spam text messages to intricate love fraud. The scams have cost us billions. But behind th...

Julie Bishop and the mine that could ruin Greenland

09 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Julie Bishop built her career as a politician representing Australia on the world stage.  Now, she’s taken on a new lobbying role, working ...

Read This: Andrea Goldsmith Finds the Poetry In Death

08 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Andrea Goldsmith’s ninth and latest novel, The Buried Life, she unpicks the relationships between people and the undercurrents of doubt ...

Cyclone politics

07 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cyclone Alfred hits as we gear up for the federal election, bringing back memories of the floods and bushfires that tore through the country last time...

Patricia Karvelas’ guide to saving democracy

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Australia is heading into a federal election at a time when trust in politics and our institutions is eroding. Over the past two decades, satisfaction...

The killing of Natan Mwanza

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One evening, two weeks ago, Natan Mwanza was stabbed and killed at a bus stop in Melbourne’s south-west. He was 24 years old. Natan’s fami...

'Unfettered power': Former ambassador on rethinking the US-Australia alliance

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Arthur Sinodinos arrived in Washington as Australia’s ambassador to the United States in 2020, he was told the best way to get things done ...

What Russia is promising Trump

03 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with US President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance in the Oval Office on Friday, they were t...

A bizarre and frankly gross thing happening

02 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Warmer waters, disease and antibiotics have pushed Tasmania’s salmon farms into crisis. But it’s not just an environmental disaster &ndash...

Read This: Sean Wilson Pulls Back the Curtain on Dementia

01 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Melbourne-based author Sean Wilson’s new book, You Must Remember This, he tackles the complicated, tragic, and often fraught subject of ...

Geraldine Brooks on Anthony Albanese's legacy

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It was just before Christmas when Geraldine Brooks sat down for the first in a series of conversations with Anthony Albanese – and his popularit...

A phone call from Tony Burke and the sacking of Venice Biennale artist Khaled Sabsabi

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When the country’s peak arts body, Creative Australia, decided to dump Australia’s representative at the Venice Biennale, it set in motion...

Exclusive: Ten dead after welfare glitch ignored by government

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It was 2020 when the government first discovered that a glitch in its system was wrongfully cutting  welfare recipients off from their payments. ...

Malarndirri McCarthy on closing the gap

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The results in the latest Closing the Gap report are grim. Only five of the 19 targets are on track, and Indigenous incarceration rates are rising. Bu...

Part 1: James and Rupert Murdoch’s ‘bitter meltdown’

23 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Last year, one of the world’s most powerful families converged in a Nevada court room to fight over the future of their empire. Rupert Murdoch w...

Part 2: The fall of the Murdoch empire

23 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One of the cardinal Murdoch family rules is never speak about the family outside the family. So, when journalist McKay Coppins got in touch with James...

Read This: Alex Miller Finally Lets His Friend Die

22 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Two time Miles Franklin Award-winning author Alex Miller is 88, but with 17 books under his belt and more writing on the way, he’s showing no si...

Saturday special: Albanese's election plans

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In news rooms, board rooms and electoral offices around the country, there's one question driving everyone insane: when is Anthony Albanese going to c...

Sabotage, surveillance and state-sponsored killings: ASIO's warning

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Australia faces its most “difficult threat environment” in 50 years, with larger and more varied plots than ever before. That was the mess...

RFK Jr’s anti-vaccine obsession

19 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s confirmation as US health secretary made official one of President Donald Trump’s most controversial appointments. ...

Can the government claim a win from the RBA cut?

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On Tuesday afternoon, the Reserve Bank cut the official cash rate to 4.1 per cent. It’s the first interest rate cut since 2020, after 13 consecu...

Inside the ‘hostile takeover’ of Meals on Wheels

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Meals on Wheels is an essential service for many elderly people across the country.  It’s the sort of service that you can’t really p...

How Bob Brown stays optimistic

16 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Bob Brown spoke out against the invasion of Iraq in 2003, at the height of the war on terror, he was widely derided. He was mocked in the press, ...

Read This: The Real Rachel Khong

15 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 2017, Rachel Khong released her debut novel Goodbye, Vitamin to critical acclaim. In 2024, she followed it with her second novel, a sweep...

Why SAS troops used wrong rules of engagement

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Brereton inquiry uncovered shocking allegations of war crimes committed by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan. But there was one failing of Austra...

Lidia Thorpe: ‘We need to scrap Closing the Gap’

12 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told parliament it must face up to the fact only five of the 19 Closing the Gap targets are on track, as he...

Trump threatens Australian medical research

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Since taking office, US President Donald Trump has thrown American science and medical research into disarray. Through a flurry of executive orders, h...

Kara Swisher has known Elon Musk for decades - she saw this coming

10 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher has reported on Elon Musk for decades. In that time, they’ve talked publicly and privately on many occasion...

Inside Labor’s plan to fight tariffs

09 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Australia is a small player in global trade, compared with giants like the US and China. And when the world’s two biggest economies embark on a ...

Read This: This Is Not Michelle de Kretser

08 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Two-time Miles Franklin Award-winning author Michelle de Kretser has never been afraid of formal experimentation. Her seventh and latest book supports...

Parliament is back. Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Dutton is making a bold move – aligning himself with Donald Trump. Dutton’s colleagues have been quick to draw the comparison, pitch...

Trump’s plan to ‘own’ Gaza

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump said the United States would “take over the Gaza strip”...

Who are Australia’s biggest political donors?

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tens of millions of dollars in “dark” donations to political parties have renewed calls for election funding reform. The Australian Electo...

After DeepSeek: How China outsmarted America

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The arrival of DeepSeek wiped more than $1 trillion off the value of America’s tech firms, topping the country from its unquestioned position at...

Read This: The Tangled Branches of Lech Blaine’s Family Tree

01 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lech Blaine’s debut book Car Crash, told the gripping story of his life in the aftermath of a horrendous road accident that killed several ...

The people importing Trump's anti-trans tactics to Australia

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump returned to the White House with a campaign that routinely attacked trans gender people. On the night he was elected, trans people in the...

Serco’s ugly legacy in Australia’s immigration detention system

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The company that’s run Australia’s immigration detention network for over a decade, British conglomerate Serco, has lost its contract, but...

Grace Tame on improving the lives of autistic Australians

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As a child, Grace Tame often felt isolated and misunderstood, a feeling later explained by her autism diagnosis. It’s a common experience for au...

Paul Barry on the billionaire who failed Whyalla

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 2017, the billionaire businessman Sanjeev Gupta rescued the Whyalla steelworks from administration, becoming known as the “saviour of steel&r...

Marcia Langton doesn't want Peter Dutton to stand in front of the Aboriginal flag

26 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Dutton’s announcement last month that he won’t stand in front of the Aboriginal flag got the exact reaction he was likely after &nda...

Read This: An Evening with Alan Hollinghurst

25 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Best known for his thought-provoking explorations of sexuality and identity across generations, British author Alan Hollinghurst rose to international...

Burnt mansions: Why the next election is a fork in the road

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As wildfires tore through some of LA’s most affluent neighbourhoods, burning down mansions owned by celebrities, some wondered if it might be a ...

Peter Dutton’s plan to win back teal seats

22 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Scott Morrison’s government was swept from power in 2022 it was the Coalition’s worst election result in 70 years. The cities deserte...

Trump’s plan to make billions off cryptocurrency

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Just three days before his inauguration, US President Donald Trump announced a new venture into cryptocurrency. Trump promoted the launch of the token...

The doping scandals overshadowing the Australian Open

20 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jannik Sinner is currently defending his title as the world’s best male tennis player at the Australian Open. But come April, he’ll be def...

'Everyone wants to be my friend': The people paying millions for access to Trump

19 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump will be president again by tomorrow, and he says “everybody” wants to be his friend. And while it might not be everybody, ple...

Read This: Noni Hazlehurst Is Being Herself

18 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For so many, Noni Hazlehurst is the patron saint of early childhood nostalgia, known for her magnetic presence on Play School. But Noni has ...

Ex-Pentagon official on the Israel-Hamas ceasefire

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This Sunday, Israel and Hamas are due to start a 42-day ceasefire in Gaza as part of a deal that could end the war. The announcement has prompted thou...

Why children are being kicked off the NDIS

15 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Outgoing Labor minister Bill Shorten has said he’s leaving politics at the end of the month confident with the state of the National Disability ...

Cathy McGowan on how to run a community independent campaign

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Cathy McGowan won the seat of Indi as an independent in 2013, it sent shockwaves through the political establishment. The Liberal Party had lost ...

How Elon Musk shapes politics

13 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the past few weeks, Elon Musk has posted thousands of times on his social media platform X about British politics, the far-right activist Tommy Rob...

Albanese v Dutton: The 'small target' v 'no target' election

12 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The 2025 federal election campaign has already begun, even if unofficially. While most Australians are still enjoying their summer, Prime Minister Ant...

Daniel James on the children of the Intervention

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From afar, Alice Springs/Mparntwe is a whirlpool of myth and truth. It’s a town with competing interests and few solutions, marked by chaos and ...

James Bradley on confronting Australia’s largest garbage dump

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tucked away in a Sydney suburb is one of Australia’s largest landfill sites. Here lies a stark reminder of the millions of tonnes of waste that form...

Jacqui Baker on the rise of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Indonesia’s recently sworn in President Prabowo Subianto is many things. To millions of young Indonesians, he is a daggy dancer on TikTok. But to a ...

Sebastian Smee on the legacy of Alice Munro

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This year, Andrea Robin Skinner, the daughter of the late Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author Alice Munro, revealed something about her mother that ha...

Marian Wilkinson on Peter Dutton’s nuclear power plants

05 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Dutton’s first major promise when he became opposition leader was to build nuclear power plants. It was a curious idea with no cost attached, ...

Read This: The Multiple Belongings of Elif Shafak

02 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist whose work has been translated into fifty-five languages. In this episode, from Schwartz Medi...

Read This: Evie Wyld Is Having More Fun Than You Think

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Winner of both the Miles Franklin Award and the Stella Prize, author Evie Wyld writes dark and often trauma-informed books, but she also has a remarka...

Read This: Leslie Jamison’s Search History

31 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Writer Leslie Jamison is celebrated for her ability to link the personal to the cultural to the critical in ways that resonate and move and connect wi...

Read This: Rumaan Alam on Class, Desire, and Dread

30 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rumaan Alam is a best-selling author who made a splash in 2020 with his critically acclaimed novel Leave the World Behind. In this episode, from Schwa...

Read This: Nardi Simpson Is Breaking Her Own Rules

29 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Musician and writer Nardi Simpson is a Yuwaalaraay woman from freshwater country in north-west New South Wales. Her debut novel was 2020’s criticall...

The best movies of 2024

26 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Every day this week, critics from The Saturday Paper and beyond are bringing you their top picks of the year. From the partying Russian oligarchs to ...

The best podcasts of 2024

25 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Every day this week, critics from The Saturday Paper and beyond are bringing you their top picks of the year.From the adventure of a lifetime to a fam...

The best music of 2024

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Every day this week, critics from The Saturday Paper and beyond are bringing you their top picks of the year. 2024 was a blockbuster year in music: B...

The best TV of 2024

23 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Every day this week, critics from The Saturday Paper and beyond are bringing you their top picks of the year. From the saddest comedy on our screens ...

The best books of 2024

22 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Every day this week, critics from The Saturday Paper and beyond are bringing you their top picks of the year. From a reimagining of a classic to the ...

Read This: We Went Back to Fitzroy Pool

21 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For Read This’s last episode of 2024, host Michael Williams heads to Fitzroy Pool to find out what people are reading as the weather warms up. Plus...

‘Insipid and weak’: What voters think of Anthony Albanese

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony Albanese has finished the year with his lowest approval rating yet.The prime minister’s popularity has been crumbling ever since his party w...

Inside the drug factories that funded the Assad regime

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Like coming up for air after 50 years. That’s how one man described the current moment in Syria.Since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, thousan...

How to solve the youth crime crisis in Alice Springs

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alice Springs is making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Violent crimes committed by young people, including a recent attack on a woman and her tw...

‘Ice-ravaged bikies’, rats and money grabs: Inside the clean up at the CFMEU

16 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been nearly four months since all branches of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union were forced into administration and hundr...

The truth about Dutton’s nuclear costings

15 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Liberal Party says it wants the next election to be a referendum on energy.After months of waiting, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton finally release...

Read This: The Only Difference Between Kanye and John Safran

14 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

John Safran has been a fixture in Australian media since his breakthrough in 1997 with ABC TV's Race Around the World. After several TV series of his ...

Why the Murdoch succession drama isn’t over

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After a scathing ruling from a Nevada probate commissioner, Rupert Murdoch and his eldest son Lachlan’s attempt to amend a family trust may have bac...

The fall of Assad: What's next for Syria?

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, on the streets of Damascus, there were signs of an army in retreat – tanks abandoned and Syrian army uniforms scattered on the roads wher...

Sarah Hanson-Young on Murdoch’s gas ‘greenwashing’

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, News Corp tabloids ran front page stories in papers around the country, all saying a similar thing: Australia needs to “step on the gas”...

Dogs, disinformation and deepfakes: Inside Dutton's meme machine

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2019, Scott Morrison’s government managed to narrowly win a third term, despite polling placing them behind Labor for almost three years.At the h...

Kim Williams on the future of the ABC

08 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

ABC chair Kim Williams has been slammed for recent comments made about broadcasters like Joe Rogan, as the national broadcaster undergoes a wave of st...

Read This: Clare Wright Is Shutting Up and Listening

07 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Clare Wright is the author of five works of history, including the best-selling The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka and You Daughters of Freedom,...

George Megalogenis on who will win the next election

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Australian politics is changing in ways it seems the Labor party and the Coalition haven’t yet come to terms with.And as the electorate splinters, i...

How pro-wrestling shaped Trump

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2007, future United States president Donald Trump stepped into the wrestling ring for a showdown with Vince McMahon, then head of World Wrestling E...

This is what political retribution looks like

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when you have a democratically elected leader who takes it upon themselves to prosecute their political opponents – as US President-ele...

Why Albanese killed a key environment bill

02 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony Albanese was triumphant on Friday, as he talked up the government’s passing of dozens of bills through the parliament.But there was one key ...

The NRL’s influence on Albanese’s gambling reforms

01 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Anthony Albanese’s political universe, personal relationships are everything.High on the list for Albanese is his bond with Peter V'landys, the c...

Read This: Thank God for Rick Morton

30 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Robodobt scheme is considered by many to be one of the Australian government’s worst scandals. Senior reporter for The Saturday Paper and Walkle...

Australia is banning teenagers like Maggie from social media

28 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Two years ago, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese labelled 6 News, a streaming news channel founded by then 14-year-old Leonardo Puglisi, a “fantastic ...

The lives of asylum seekers on Nauru

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On Nauru, there are close to 100 asylum seekers who have been released from detention but are currently living hand-to-mouth.They are forbidden to wor...

How Trump pushed bitcoin to record highs

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Crypto is skyrocketing, ever since Donald Trump won the US election.Trump is set to lead the most pro-crypto administration ever, promising a crypto a...

How Gina Rinehart's friendship with Trump will change Australia

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The night Donald Trump claimed victory, he celebrated with his closest friends. Among them was Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart.Rinehart, ...

The last path forward to Treaty

24 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The call for Treaty in this country stems as far back as European settlement. Now, the Victorian government has started negotiations in what will be ...

Read This: Rachel Kushner Is Not Auditioning for Her Own Dream

23 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rachel Kushner always seemed destined to become a writer. At just five years old, her unconventional parents had her working in a feminist bookstore. ...

How police try to shut down climate protests

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hundreds of climate activists, aboard rafts and kayaks, have paddled out into the Port of Newcastle for a so-called “protestival”, to disrupt the ...

How to talk about vaccine side effects

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There’s a group of people who felt completely abandoned during our most recent public health crisis: those who suffered Covid-19 vaccine injuries. ...

Geraldine Brooks on Trump's America

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Just a few days after the US presidential election, Prospect Park, located in the middle of Brooklyn, burst into flames. For Pulitzer Prize-winning n...

The arrest of Alan Jones

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alan Jones was at his luxury Circular Quay apartment yesterday morning when Child Abuse Squad detectives arrived to arrest him.For nine months, police...

The Coalition minister and the corruption watchdog

17 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In deciding not to probe robodebt, the National Anti-Corruption Commission seemingly failed its first big test.But the NACC has been given a second ch...

Read This: Santilla Chingaipe is Rewriting History

16 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Santilla Chingaipe has always been a storyteller. The Zambian-born filmmaker, historian and author spent her career exploring settler colonialism, sla...

Is Donald Trump getting Kevin Rudd fired?

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Rudd, Australia’s ambassador to the United States, does not appear to like Donald Trump – and the feeling is mutual.Speculation about Rudd's...