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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...

Gas beyond 2050: A Labor revolt or sanctioned dissent?

22 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The members of this federal Labor government have been pretty disciplined on not publicly criticising party policy.So it raised a few eyebrows when MP...

Jennifer Robinson on UK courts giving Assange one last appeal

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Julian Assange’s lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, describes the long, meandering court process Assange has faced as “punishment by process”.Just this ...

Albanese abandons plans to bring home 'ISIS brides'

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When observing the Al Roj refugee camp in Northern Syria on Google Maps, you can see it’s only a few hundred metres away from an airport tarmac.But ...

Richard Flanagan on Labor's first extinction

19 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you’ve bought salmon at the supermarket, there’s a strong chance it came from Tasmania.The island state is home to a billion-dollar salmon farm...

The Jim Chalmers Interview

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Jim Chalmers delivered what could be the most politically significant budget of his career – with the future of a Labor government and th...

The pitches from budget critics: How do they stack up?

15 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a budget we’ll be talking about for a long time, as we head to the next election and try to escape the cost of living crisis. But even though...

A budget built to fight an election

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jim Chalmers delivered what could be the most important budget of his political career last night. But how much will it help with the cost of living a...

Skipping meals, dumpster diving and cereal for dinner

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s budget week, which means crunch time for the leaders tasked with tackling how expensive Australia is right now.And the thing we’re all talkin...

Australia, the ‘land of suck-it-up’

12 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, as the federal budget is handed down, we’re bringing you The Cost: Inside the living crisis.We’ll explore the impact this crisis is hav...

‘A viper’s nest’: How Karen Webb became top cop

09 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The tasering of a 95-year-old grandmother, the double-murder of a Surry Hills couple, the Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial and now the spike in domesti...

Why big gas is putting money into MasterChef

08 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One of Australia’s favourite shows has a contentious sponsor this year.MasterChef, a show that delivers fairytale stories of home cooks rising to na...

On the verge of an invasion of Rafah, is a ceasefire possible?

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Israeli airstrikes are targeting the southernmost city in Gaza and tanks have been seen entering the outskirts of the city.Rafah was once the last saf...

The lobbyists behind Peter Dutton’s nuclear promise

06 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a small mystery in Australian politics: Why was Peter Dutton’s first major policy as opposition leader a promise to build nuclear power plant...

David McBride as he faces sentencing

05 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In recent years, Australia has faced a reckoning over the actions of some of our special forces soldiers, who have gone from decorated heroes to murde...

The Weekend Read: Angela Savage on the moment a child leaves the home

04 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, writer Angela Savage with her piece from a recent edition of The Monthly. Parents often face the dilemma of helping their children become inde...

Payments and a porn passport: Albanese’s snap national cabinet

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As Australia demanded answers to the domestic violence crisis, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese became a focal point in all the wrong ways when he got ...

The Australian journo on 'catch and kill' for Trump

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As Donald Trump zeroed in on his successful 2016 run to the presidency, he began to engage in what is called “catch and kill” journalism.Trump and...

Jess Hill on why we need more than ‘awareness’ to end the killing of women

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It feels like hardly a week goes by where we don’t hear about a woman in Australia being killed by a man she knows.Intimate partner deaths increased...

How sales reps infiltrated operating theatres

29 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There are strict rules around how drug company representatives can interact with doctors to ensure they aren’t influencing how medications are presc...

‘A race towards minority’: Inside Labor’s re-election strategy

28 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There’s an old adage in Canberra: every first-term government gets a second chance.But when voters head to the polls next year, could the current La...

Australia v Elon Musk: Can our politicians really take on the tech billionaire?

25 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Australia’s eSafety commissioner issued takedown orders to some of the world’s biggest tech companies at the beginning of this week, the comm...

'Outrageous and probably illegal': Offers to skip the queue at public hospitals

24 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The wait for elective surgery in our public hospitals is longer than ever, but it seems there’s a way to jump the queue.If you can afford to pay for...

The stabbing of a TikTok bishop

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An attack at a Western Sydney church last week was inextricably linked to social media.The bishop who was stabbed is a social media celebrity, the att...

Grace Tame is not a cat, she’s autistic

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Grace Tame knows how to advocate. Her campaigning for survivors of sexual assault and abuse helped to create real change and pushed powerful instituti...

Can Channel Seven survive the Lehrmann verdict?

21 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s now been a week since the Federal Court of Australia’s Justice Michael Lee ruled it was substantially true that Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittney...

The Weekend Read: Elizabeth Farrelly on the city of the future

20 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, columnist Elizabeth Farrelly will read her piece about our modern cities and how they relate to the history of how humanity has imagined the pe...

The Great Housing Disaster: The minister for housing

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At the end of the day, the people who decide what path Australia takes to solve the housing crisis are those in government. In this episode, we speak ...

The Great Housing Disaster: How to fix it

17 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A solution to the housing crisis is one of the most sought-after ideas in Australia.Political careers, fortunes and the fate of a generation will rest...

The Great Housing Disaster: Who gets a say?

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With federal, state and local governments promising to build more Australian homes, it’s fair to say that all levels of government want to fix the h...

The Great Housing Disaster: The renters' resistance

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With home ownership out of reach, more and more younger Australians have no choice but to rent for much longer than their parents ever did – maybe f...

The Great Housing Disaster: Who’s to blame?

14 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first episode of 7am’s new five-part special series on the housing crisis.What happened to housing in Australia over the past few decade...

Penny Wong’s plan to recognise Palestine

11 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Penny Wong took the lectern for the keynote speech at a conference on foreign affairs this week, she could have done what politicians usually do ...

Mark Zuckerberg is playing chicken with Australian news

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Three years ago, Australia became the first nation in the world to make Facebook pay for news. Now, those deals are about to expire, and Facebook isn...

Does the Immigration minister really believe in what he's doing?

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Australian Border Force and Western Australian police spent the weekend searching for 15 men who had arrived in the country by boat.Eventually, all 15...

The Lehrmann interview (Taylor's version)

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Former Channel Seven producer Taylor Auerbach has given extraordinary evidence at Bruce Lehrmann’s trial against Channel Ten over defamation.Auerbac...

The fossil fuel approval that wasn’t published

07 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Albanese government was elected on a sense of optimism for the climate movement.But nearly two years later, there’s a growing sense of unease fr...

Sophie Cunningham on remembering Georgia Blain

06 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, author and editor Sophie Cunningham reads her piece from a recent edition of The Saturday Paper.Australian author Georgia Blain chronicled her ...

The killing of Zomi Frankcom

04 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Israel’s killing of seven aid workers in Gaza has been met with international outrage.The workers at World Central Kitchen, including an Australian ...

Can a gag order slow down Donald Trump?

03 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump is known for being the loudest, most controversial and outburst-prone politician of our time. Now, a judge has issued a gag order agains...

Why the churches lobby is still so powerful in Canberra

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Some of Australia’s most powerful religious bodies have taken aim at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and also the Greens – accusing them of threa...

Australia is exporting right wing media to the UK

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With an election looming in the United Kingdom and chaos among the British Conservative Party, 2024 could see a new prime minister taking residence at...

Read This: Friends, Mary Beard Fans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ears

31 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Over the long weekend, we're featuring episodes from the podcast Read This. Today, we have a treat for those who think about the Roman Empire more tha...

Read This: No Dogs Die in Briohny Doyle's New Novel

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Over the long weekend, we're featuring episodes from the podcast Read This.In this episode, host Michael Williams chats with author Briohny Doyle, who...

What to know about the biggest Covid wave since Omicron

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Many Australians could have been infected with Covid-19 for the second, third or even fourth time in the last couple of months.That’s because a new ...

Labor’s ‘shameful’ last-minute immigration bill

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Yesterday, Labor’s emergency legislation on immigration detention was slammed by crossbenchers and the Greens as a “race to the bottom” on the w...

Using psychotropic drugs to treat children

25 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If a child experiences a complex mental health condition like psychosis, everyone would agree that someone at such a young age needs careful and consi...

Anjali Sharma on lobbying parliament from her dorm room

24 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An Australian court once ruled that the federal government has a duty of care to young people, to protect them from harm the climate crisis will infli...

The Weekend Read: Elmo Keep on the insane spectacle of U2 at the Las Vegas sphere

23 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On the Las Vegas strip, in a sea of casinos, sits an enormous dome that lights up the sky.It’s called The Sphere and it’s a performance venue wher...

Dutton and Albanese share a flight and talk God

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There are laws in Australia that desperately need to be overhauled and amended for the modern era..But even with almost universal agreement that these...

The ‘beige’ man behind Australia’s nuclear plan

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Coalition is going all in on nuclear power. The opposition’s vision for Australia’s future puts the technology front and centre, despite exper...

The Korean doomsday church targeting Australians

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When starting out at university, it’s normal to want to meet new friends and establish a community. But for some young Australians, that formative ...

The women who fought to expose the gender pay gap

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The gender pay gap in Australia is well documented, with data on the difference between men’s and women’s wages more detailed and comprehensive th...

The truth behind Peter Dutton’s ‘strongman’ persona

17 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Dutton is a lot of things: a right-wing firebrand, a former Queensland cop and a champion of what he believes are simple Australian values. But ...

Why Coles and Woolies have politicians 'oinking'

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Coles and Woolworths are in the sights of a Senate inquiry, which has been hearing evidence across Australia this week.It’s looking into whether pri...

Can we believe anything the Royal Family say?

13 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The royal family is no stranger to gossip, innuendo and controversy.But this week, the rumours and speculation over the whereabouts and health of Kate...

Inside the Zachary Rolfe hearings: The culture of racism the police deny

12 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Zachary Rolfe, the former Northern Territory police officer who shot and killed an Indigenous teenager, Kumanjayi Walker, has been back in the witness...

Stan Grant on Sam Kerr and the media’s failings

11 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stan Grant left the ABC, citing the media had failed — it had failed him and his family, and it had failed the country.Last week, he was struck by a...

Why Australia is heading for a minority government

10 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s in the best interests of politicians to come up with policies that appeal to voters and secure their support at the next election.So it was par...

The Weekend Read: Ange Lavoipierre on how much sex is too much for one person

09 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today on the show, journalist Ange Lavoipierre will be reading her piece from a recent edition of The Monthly.In the suburb of Newtown, in Sydney, two...

The Liberals’ failed bid for suburban voters

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Labor won the Dunkley byelection last weekend, but the Liberal Party spent most of the week claiming the result was a win for them as well.But even wh...

The people pushing Australia’s gas expansion

06 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Despite the government’s commitment to cutting emissions and reaching net zero, Australia’s gas industry is expanding – and we’re making it ea...

The Australian teachers quitting over Andrew Tate

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An alarming number of Australian boys are engaging with, and looking up to, the misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate.Tate’s influence is warping clas...

‘Enough is enough’: a mother’s fight for justice over her son’s death in custody

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Aunty Donnas Kerr has spent her life fighting for Indigenous rights. A member of the stolen generations, she grew up seeing members of her family die...

The most powerful minister you’ve never heard of

03 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A new bill that redefines Australia’s gas industry has a surprising section smuggled into the fine print.It’s designed to change not just the way ...

Rosie Batty and a decade of public grieving

29 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ten years ago, Schwartz Media launched its weekly independent newspaper, The Saturday Paper.On page three of its first edition was a story about a wom...

Scott Morrison leaves parliament: A winner or a loser?

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Morrison has left the building.The former prime minister was known for his finely crafted personal image, a dad from the shire who loved rugby l...

Why Labor is being accused of pork-barrelling

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pork-barrelling isn’t illegal, but it's one of the dark arts of politics: governments spending money in seats they want to win.So, when does the pra...

Everything Peter Dutton is getting wrong on asylum seekers

26 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton may have found the message he’s taking to the federal election: stop the “armada of boats”.It hasn’t been high ...

‘They don't know much’: Politicians spending on the military

25 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Australia has spent almost 15 years trying to buy new surface ships for the navy, but they are still yet to arrive.That’s because governments have r...

The Weekend Read: Jane Gleeson on why we need decay to save the planet

24 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today on the show, writer Jane Gleeson-White, with her piece from a recent edition of The Monthly.In inner-city Sydney, the heart of the urban jungle,...

The two days that could decide Julian Assange's freedom

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Julian Assange has spent years fighting to prevent his extradition to the United States and this week, the battle has come down to just two days in co...

Jon Ronson on who really started the culture wars

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Ronson has spent time with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, uncovered the secret US military program to train psychic soldiers and told the stories...

A missing $80 million to keep asylum seekers in limbo

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After asylum seekers arrived by boat in Western Australia last week and were sent to Nauru, old debates about offshore immigration detention have been...

Why the Bureau of Meteorology lied to court

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Bureau of Meteorology determines a lot: from whether we bring an umbrella to work, to how much warning we get of a natural disaster – all the wa...

Texts, calls and a Brisbane lunch: Murdoch press and the Bruce Lehrmann inquiry

18 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It was three years ago last week that Brittany Higgins made allegations that rocked Australia.Those allegations resulted in a mistrial, and while Bruc...

Can Labor be forced to end negative gearing?

15 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Following its loss at the 2019 federal election, touching negative gearing — tax concessions that benefit property investors — has been unthinkabl...

The Taylor Swift conspiracy: The world’s biggest popstar and the US election

14 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

While Taylor Swift arrives in Australia for the biggest shows of her career, she’s found herself at the centre of conspiratorial fantasies sweeping ...

Jane Caro on Labor's school funding deal

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

While some private schools in Australia fret over the construction of their new waterpolo centres or drama theatres, public schools face more pressin...

Why Peter Dutton believes he can win

12 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Since becoming opposition leader, Peter Dutton has clawed back in the polls by relentlessly attacking the Labor government – now that approach is be...

The teals' plan to shock the major parties

11 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The teals of the 2022 election outdid expectations – flipping six historically Liberal seats independent. It’s a result that has energised their ...

The Weekend Read: Konrad Muller on organic wine and whether it’s worth it

10 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, writer Konrad Muller reads his latest piece on the quest to learn whether making organic wine is worth the effort.It's called “Notes from a s...

You can ignore your boss after work. It’s now the law.

08 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The right to disconnect will become law, after an agreement was reached between the government, the Greens and independents.The law will help change o...

Is this a new era for the Reserve Bank?

07 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For decades the Reserve Bank has done things the same old way: announcing their decision on interest rates the first Tuesday of every month, with just...

‘Every system failed’: Inside Tasmania’s abuse cover-up

06 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Feik spent eight months looking into one of the worst institutional failures to protect children from sexual abuse this country has ever seen…I...

Why the Newington old boys are crying

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Videos of emotional protesters outside a private all-boys school in Sydney have gone viral, with some former students of Newington College opposing th...

Inside the Albanese reset

04 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For someone who’s been accused of breaking an election promise, Anthony Albanese isn’t hiding.The prime minister and his front bench have been out...

Is 2024 democracy's biggest test?

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

2024 will be democracy’s biggest year. Over four billion people will head to the polls, with major battles in the United States, India, South Afric...

Is the ABC’s reputation in trouble?

31 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The ABC has started the year fighting off accusations of racism, unlawful dismissal and a failure to protect journalists from outside attacks. The ca...

What did the ICJ's ruling really mean?

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last weekend’s decision by the International Court of Justice was heralded as a victory by many.South Africa and the Palestinian Authority saw it as...

The Dreyfus interview: The Attorney-General's vision for ‘honest government’

29 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Labor government promised it would return transparency to government once elected at the 2022 election. More than anyone else that mission was giv...

Why Albanese changed his mind on tax cuts

28 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The stage three tax cuts the Labor government said they’d deliver will be altered and now be of greater benefit to lower and middle-income earners.W...

The Weekend Read: Anthony Ham on what happens when a mine is meant to be rehabilitated

27 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Surrounded by what we know as the Kakadu National Park, the Northern Territory’s Ranger Uranium Mine finally ceased processing in 2021, after nearly...

Peter Dutton’s failing culture war over Jan 26

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This year, the attempt to whip up nationalism over January 26 has taken a different turn.While politicians and the media talk about pride in celebrati...

Is Australia lagging on AI?

24 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

All over the world, humanity is rushing to regulate the development of artificial intelligence.Now, the Australian government has announced its first ...

Julian Assange’s brother on his last shot at freedom

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For years, Gabriel Shipton has been desperately advocating for the release of his older brother, Julian Assange. It’s a fight that may have nearly ...

Why judges will soon get to decide ‘Australian values’

22 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At the end of last year, the government rushed through new laws that have largely flown under the radar. The new citizenship act, which was passed fo...

Why time’s up for Coles and Woolies

21 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Supermarket prices have finally caught the attention of our leaders.While the cost of living crisis continues, customers and, now, politicians are bec...

The ‘elephant in the room’ at the Australian Open

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Professional sport has grappled with how to address athletes’ domestic violence and sexual assault allegations for years.It’s an issue that’s cu...