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Fake artwork and discrimination: The MONA Ladies Lounge saga

19 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a court case earlier this year, an art installation at Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art that was designed to playfully poke at the historic and...

‘They don’t want us here’: an asylum seeker’s shattered education dreams

18 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As a child refugee in India, Harini dreamt of making it to Australia to study medicine and become a doctor.She arrived in Australia in 2013 when she w...

University bosses and their million-dollar salaries

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Bill Shorten finally gave up his hopes of ever becoming prime minister, one door closed and another, much more lucrative, door opened. In his ne...

Jim Chalmers, Angus Taylor and the future of the Reserve Bank

16 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Jim Chalmers said that interest rate hikes were “smashing the economy” he was either stating the obvious or starting a war, depending on who ...

Inside the secret world of an American militia

15 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The militia movement in the United States has a long and bloody history. In the aftermath of January 6, it was buoyed by Donald Trump’s praise of t...

Read This: Louise Milligan Wears Her Heart on Her Sleeve

14 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Star investigative journalist Louise Milligan has spent her career working on some of the most high-profile criminal cases in Australia. This incredib...

Australia’s first national newspaper – for prisoners, by prisoners

12 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When former inmate Daniel Vansetten heard about the idea of a national newspaper, produced for prisoners and by prisoners, he jumped at the opportunit...

Trump v Harris: two visions of America

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The United States presidential campaign so far has largely been based on fashioning public perceptions: with the Democrats painting Donald Trump as a ...

Why Labor wants to fight the election on nuclear power

10 Sep 2024

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 an...

Inside Labor’s courting of the teal independents

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Politics was changed at the last election in a way the major parties are still grappling with.Now, the record crossbench it delivered looks set to gro...

Has Albanese’s NACC been a failure?

08 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Albanese government’s long-promised National Anti-Corruption Commission was met with high hopes that it would weed out corruption within our ins...

Read This: We Visited Gerald Murnane at the Goroke Golf Course

07 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gerald Murnane doesn’t have readers, he has acolytes. The New Yorker described him as “the reclusive giant of Australian letters”. He’s writte...

Why Bill Shorten is quitting politics

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bill Shorten has wanted to be the prime minister since he was a teenager. Yesterday he finally gave up that ambition, announcing his resignation from...

The scientific controversy over head injuries in sport

04 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At a Senate committee last year, the NRL and Football Australia acknowledged the link between head injuries in contact sports and the neurodegenerativ...

Thomas Mayo on continuing the fight for recognition

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Although Australians voted resoundingly against an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, Thomas Mayo – one of the Voice’s key campaigners – has not gi...

Why trans people need to be counted in the census

02 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The census is meant to reflect the country back to us – to give vital data on who makes up Australia. But this week it’s become a political landm...

Is this the end of the Jacqui Lambie Network?

01 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been almost a decade since Jacqui Lambie dramatically quit the Palmer United Party.  Since then, she’s become a political force in Canberra...

Read This: Miranda July Wrote the Book She Couldn’t Find

31 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Writer, artist, and filmmaker Miranda July has a devoted – even rabid – following, through her writing, her work on the screen, and her collaborat...

Inside the ‘white hands on black art’ saga

29 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The most damaging controversy the Indigenous art sector has experienced in years started with a video.The Ngura Pulka exhibition was set to open in Ju...

Tanya Plibersek and the billion-dollar gold mine

28 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a tough few weeks for Jim Beyer, the CEO of Australia’s third largest goldmining company, Regis Resources.The multi-billion dollar McPhi...

Jess Hill on how to stop domestic violence

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jess Hill hasn’t been sleeping much lately. For the past three months, she’s been working on a plan to try to end violence against women and child...

Are Hezbollah and Israel gearing up for all out war?

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It was the biggest escalation between Hezbollah and Israel since October 7.On Sunday, Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel whil...

‘We’re always going to fight’: Victoria’s groundbreaking path to Treaty

25 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After the resounding defeat of last year’s referendum on the Voice to Parliament, the path towards Truth and Treaty has appeared to be on shaky grou...

Read This: It’s Not Roxane Gay’s Job to Make People Happy

24 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Roxane Gay is a prominent American author, professor, and cultural critic known for her unflinching honesty, quick wit, and razor-sharp intellect. She...

Jon Faine on why the ABC's boss just quit

22 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The ABC’s Managing Director David Anderson announced his shock resignation yesterday afternoon, after being reappointed for his second term in the r...

Elon Musk’s secret plan to buy Trump the presidency

21 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2022, Elon Musk said Donald Trump was “too old” to be president, and Donald Trump called Musk a “bullshit artist”.In the relatively short t...

QANTAS crash: How Alan Joyce lost a $9 million bonus

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alan Joyce was once hailed as a saviour of perhaps Australia’s most iconic business.The former CEO of QANTAS was championed by his board and well kn...

Peter Dutton's Palestinian ban is textbook Peter Dutton

19 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The treatment or mistreatment of refugees fleeing to Australia has been the wellspring of Australian politics for almost a quarter of a century.  Th...

After the 'no' vote: Advance’s plan to destroy the Greens

18 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The hard-right group behind the “No” campaign, Advance, is amassing a multi-million dollar war chest to take down its next opponent: the Australia...

Read This: All Bruce Pascoe Needs Is a Biro

17 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It was 2014 when Bruce Pascoe went from being a prolific, yet relatively unknown writer, to public enemy #1 in Australia’s culture wars. That was th...

‘It’s not 1800-phone-a-friend’: the failed promise of therapy apps

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“I didn’t have a boyfriend to text anymore so might as well text a therapist,” a millennial podcast host tells her audience while recommending t...

Linda Reynolds, Brittany Higgins and the rise of political defamation

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brittany Higgins has now been at the centre of three court cases.First, there was the criminal trial of Bruce Lehrmann - which was aborted with no fin...

Inside the illegal underground schools for Afghan girls

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Three years ago the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan. From his new home in Adelaide, Australia, Hazara human rights activist and photographer ...

Labor’s plan to put young people into aged care

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Neale Radley was in his early 40s when he dived off a houseboat and hit a sandbar, becoming a high-needs quadriplegic. With no family members able to ...

Imane Khelif and the scrutiny of female athletes’ bodies

11 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This year’s Olympics has been phenomenal for women in sport.Paris 2024 also set a milestone as the first Olympics to achieve full gender parity on t...

Read This: Eric Beecher Is a Media Mongrel

10 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of our sister podcast, Read This, host Michael Williams speaks with journalist, editor and media proprietor Eric Beecher about his new...

Is Australia failing to teach kids to read?

08 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been called a forever war: the fight over how to teach children to read.For decades, an outdated method has lingered in Australian classrooms a...

Battle of the VPs: Tim Walz v JD Vance

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the weeks since he was announced as Donald Trump’s running mate, some of JD Vance’s past remarks have resurfaced. He is now at the centre of a ...

Who decides the future of Gaza?

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hardly any foreign journalists have been into Gaza since Israel’s bombings began. The Economist’s editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes is one of t...

‘Find some courage’: David Pocock on Labor’s flawed gambling laws

05 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

They’re hard to miss: the number of gambling ads flooding our screens and devices everyday. They’ve become such an inescapable part of sport that ...

The Train family murders: A new age of radicalisation

04 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It was supposed to be a routine call out when four police officers attended a property in regional Queensland just before Christmas in 2022.The young ...

Read This: Alexis Wright Is the 2024 Miles Franklin Winner

03 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of our sister podcast, Read This, host Michael Williams speaks with the winner of the 2024 Miles Franklin Award, Alexis Wright. Her ep...

'I have eyes, but I don't see': The community groups helping refugees settle

01 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At Sydney Airport on a muggy night in November 2022, a group of volunteers from Sydney’s northern beaches crowd inside arrivals waiting to greet a f...

The end of ‘Twiggy’ Forrest's hydrogen dream

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It wasn’t so long ago that renewables pundits glowingly described hydrogen as the “Swiss Army knife” of renewable technologies, able to be turne...

Inside Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking trial

30 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to twenty years jail for sex trafficking crimes, journalist and writer Lucia Osborne-Crowley was there in the cou...

These PwC executives still haven't been held accountable

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It was one of the biggest corporate scandals the country has ever seen when it was revealed that PwC had used confidential government information to e...

Zoe Daniel on what it costs to win an election

28 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The historic teal wave at the last election delivered the two major parties their worst electoral results ever.So, perhaps it’s no surprise that the...

Read This: How Geraldine Brooks Became a Novelist

27 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of our sister podcast, host Michael Williams speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks. She shares her life sentence ...

'I sued the government over climate – but I'm not done'

25 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Climate activist Katta O’Donnell sued the Australian government for failing to disclose how much climate change would impact the value of government...

Why Labor supports private school tax breaks

24 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Recently, Mike Seccombe has been looking into the divide between Australia’s richest and poorest schools – to find out why this gap keeps widening...

The executive, the mine and the corruption referral

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On a remote island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, there are two towns.One is home to a thriving economy. It has a golf course, cinema and tennis courts. ...

Why Biden pulled out: 'Money is the mother's milk of politics'

22 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With just over a hundred days to go until the US election, Joe Biden has announced he’s dropping out of the presidential race.In a letter posted to ...

The truth about men who kill women

21 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

News stories about violence against women have been coming hard and fast these past few weeks. These stories of the women — and sometimes children ...

Read This: David Marr vs Australia’s Old Lie

20 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For many Australians, facing the reality of this country is a task that has proved enduringly difficult, both at a public and a political level. For i...

Who knew the CFMEU's dirty secrets?

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, allegations of corruption, criminal infiltration, standover tactics and other nefarious activities within the ranks of the CFMEU have been ...

How to be a climate whistleblower

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the Pitjantjatjara communities of Anangu Country on the edge of the Nullarbor Plain, cancer rates are higher than elsewhere in Australia.This is th...

The surge in financial abuse against women

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Shenane Hogg spent nine months in a coma after suffering abuse at the hands of her partner.During her recovery, she discovered her abuser had amassed ...

Assassinations, insurrections and massacres: an American story

15 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The attempted assassination of former US president Donald Trump shocked America.Prominent public figures from all sides of the political spectrum have...

Peter Dutton’s big Queensland energy

14 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Queensland, one issue is already dominating the upcoming state election: youth crime.So when the Liberal National Party launched their campaign, Pe...

Read This: Leigh Sales Is a Professional Stickybeak

13 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Long before she was hosting 7:30 on the ABC, Leigh Sales dreamed of becoming a novelist. In this episode of our sister podcast, Read This, she joins M...

Artist and refugee Mostafa Azimitabar on painting from a hostile country

11 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Mostafa Azimitabar was imprisoned on Manus Island, he was overcome with a desire to paint.With no art supplies, he used a toothbrush – a techni...

Will the threat of jail time help fix Aged Care?

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2018, then prime minister Scott Morrison announced a royal commission into aged care, shedding light on the astonishing prevalence of abuse in resi...

The China think tank attacked by Wolverines

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There's a shadow world beneath Canberra, fed by the defence, foreign affairs and security communities, and it is hugely influential in how the governm...

Inside Nine's journalism cuts: 'Quite a few people suspected retribution'

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you pick up a copy of The Age or The Sydney Morning Herald, you’ll see the tagline ‘Independent. Always.’ under the masthead.Now, as journali...

Project 2025: The Trump presidency wish list

07 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump’s lead in the polls for the 2024 presidential race has widened following a fumbling debate performance from Joe Biden, and concerns abo...

Read This: The Three Words That Made George Saunders a Writer

06 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

George Saunders is one of literary fiction's most acclaimed living writers. Along with his many collections of short stories, he also published the Bo...

The internet sleuths fighting fake research

04 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Smut Clyde spends several hours every day, scouring online science journals for suspicious-looking research.He’s part of a growing team of online ‘...

The power and legacy of 'militant' union boss John Setka

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When people think of the CFMEU, Australia’s powerful and fearsome construction union, they picture its top dog, John Setka.But as he prepares to ste...

The son of Hong Kong's jailed media tycoon

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sebastien Lai woke up one morning in 2020 to find dozens of missed phone calls – his father, the Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, had just been arr...

The Albanese government's $1 billion computer

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In high-security labs, from Silicon Valley to mainland China, researchers are racing to be the first to achieve what has been dubbed ‘Q-day’.On th...

Rishi Sunak's Australian communications 'magician'

30 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

By the end of this week, the United Kingdom will almost certainly have a new prime minister and closure on 14 years of Tory leadership.One man in part...

Why would a university have a deal with Lockheed Martin?

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past few months, there’s been a lot of focus on universities’ relationships with weapons manufacturers.Students set up encampments and oc...

Julian Assange is home: Gabriel Shipton on how his brother was freed

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Julian Assange has finally landed in Australia, a free man.Today, his brother Gabriel Shipton on how the deal to release the long-incarcerated WikiLea...

The woman who spoke out against Google on AI

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meredith Whittaker turned her back on Google after raising concerns about the mass surveillance fueling AI, but she didn’t leave tech entirely.The f...

Morrison and Rudd: The unlikely duo could be Australia's Trump whisperers

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Back in 2016, when Donald Trump was elected President, the Australian government was caught off guard. The then prime minister Malcolm Turnbull called...

The spy base we’re not supposed to know about is getting bigger

23 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Once upon a time, Australians were told Pine Gap was a space base. Then we were told it was a weather station. But now, of course, we know the install...

The Weekend Read: Anna Stewart on being a captain of one of the biggest games of the year

22 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For 31 years, there has been a rivalry – drawing on a divide so inherent and base – that it pits mate against mate.We’re not talking about State...

Will Australia get behind Dutton's nuclear campaign?

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nuclear power has been politically toxic in this country for decades.It’s been 55 years since a leader went to a federal election promising to build...

Peter Greste on the latest blow against whistleblowers

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There’s been another strike against whistleblowing.Richard Boyle was a tax office employee when he raised concerns internally about a scheme to garn...

Making childcare universal: Will it be an election secret weapon?

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There’s no nice way to put it: Australian childcare is broken, and not just for those with children.It’s prohibitively expensive, getting the days...

Peter Costello's decade at Nine: Is this the end of his public life?

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Costello’s legacy was set. He was the longest serving treasurer in Australian history and under the then prime minister John Howard, he transf...

How Home Affairs became a scandal factory

16 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Barely a week goes by when the Department of Home Affairs isn’t under the blowtorch of media or political scrutiny.In one way, the level of scrutiny...

Climate Wars II: Judgement Day

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Two years ago, on the day after the Labor government was sworn into office, Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen called a press conferen...

Is Joe Biden’s ceasefire plan already failing? (Update)

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The US has a proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, and this one seems to be gathering momentum.It’s not much different to the previous plans, except tha...

Disgraced consultancy given deal to run government ‘ethics' training

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you were a public service chief picking a firm to run ethics training, would one of the big four consulting firms be your first pick?They have face...

Xi Jinping’s right-hand man is coming to Australia

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Australia is about to receive a visit from the most senior Chinese leader we've had on our shores in almost a decade.But this visit by Chinese Premier...

Zero accountability: Rick Morton on the NACC dropping robodebt

09 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When the robodebt royal commission’s final report landed, it was scathing. It condemned the entire scheme, the individuals who rolled it out and th...

The Weekend Read: Atticus Bastow on the mysteries of the universe at the bottom of an abandoned mine shaft

08 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Over 90 years ago, a Swiss astrophysicist theorised there was an unseen, unobservable force that sits behind the universe we know.He called it ‘dark...

How the new vape ban is splitting the Coalition

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There’s an issue exposing fault lines within our political parties and pitting their traditional supporters against each other, fracturing the elect...

Why the toxic culture at Parliament still isn’t fixed

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There’s been a slow but steady reckoning on sexual harassment and discrimination in workplaces across Australia.That reckoning should have already c...

Rick Morton on Bill Shorten’s NDIS overhaul

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There are two things to know about the National Disability Insurance Scheme. The first is that it makes an immense difference to many lives across Aus...

Why are French troops cracking down on riots in the Pacific?

03 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Many Australians have an idea of New Caledonia. It’s just two hours away by plane and is sold to travellers with images of luxurious hotel complexes...

'You're all owned by China!': Rage at the Trump conviction

02 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump’s conviction in a New York courthouse has led to furious reactions from his supporters and allies.A presidential candidate has never be...

Direction 99: Peter Dutton's latest immigration obsession

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Some non-Australian citizens facing deportation for convictions of serious crimes like domestic violence and child sexual abuse are managing to hang o...

Can these candidates convince women to vote Liberal again?

29 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nine years ago, the Liberal Party said it was aiming for gender parity by 2025. Since then, the number of Liberal women in parliaments across the coun...

Why the PNG landslide should be Australia's problem too

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As many as 2000 people have been buried under rubble and dirt after a landslide in Papua New Guinea’s remote highlands this week.Video released days...

Why did Albanese back banning under-16s from social media?

27 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There are currently a number of running campaigns concerned about the effects of social media on young people. These effects include exposure to harmf...

The man who’s taking the fight to Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest

26 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Here’s a question for you: can you place a value on lost cultural heritage, on separation from land and on families divided?It’s not only a moral ...

The Weekend Read: Martin McKenzie-Murray on the ugly side of football fandom ahead of Euro 2024

25 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The 2024 Euros are just weeks away – with some of the best footballers in the world competing in an event that draws in hundreds of millions of view...

Arrest warrants for Hamas leaders and Netanyahu: What happens next?

23 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On Monday, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan announced he would apply for arrest warrants for senior Hamas leaders as well...