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25.01.2022 ‘Kajillionaire’ is a breakthrough for writer and director Miranda July, writes Craig Mathieson:

25.01.2022 Australians have a great piece of vernacular once commonly applied to someone who talks a big game but never delivers on it. They’re called a bullshit artist Nick Feik on the PM’s announcement-based approach to leadership:

25.01.2022 At the age of 74, Kev was in the top 10 for the first time. Paul Kelly reflects on another great Australian musician:

24.01.2022 Russell Marks on the budget that wasn’t delivered last night:

22.01.2022 What makes it worse: this is terrible legislation. It’s not just unfair and ill-timed, but it’s also likely to have the opposite effect from the one purported by Education Minister Dan Tehan and the government. Nick Feik on Centre Alliance's sell-out:

22.01.2022 Collectively, these recordings voice a breadth of feeling and experience that can’t quite be encompassed by activism itself. Anwen Crawford on the soundtrack to documentary ‘Brazen Hussies’, exploring women’s liberation in Australia:

19.01.2022 The Trump administration officially commenced the transition of power to President-elect Biden today, and the Australian government is recalibrating on two key issues, writes Paddy Manning:

18.01.2022 Santos, Sussan Ley and her colleagues in the federal Coalition who are bent on their gas-led recovery might be satisfied, but hardly anyone else will be. Paddy Manning on the approval of Narrabri's coal-seam gas project:

18.01.2022 Let’s not underestimate what the NSW energy and environment minister, Matt Kean, pulled off when the state parliament finally passed the Electricity Infrastructure Investment Bill, after a marathon 30 hours of debate forced by some legislative vandalism from Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. Paddy Manning on a nationally significant breakthrough:

11.01.2022 The most vulnerable Australians remain in limbo and they are each looking at a personal fiscal cliff on New Year’s Eve. Paddy Manning on the budget:

11.01.2022 Josh Frydenberg has budgeted to force some 2.2 million Australians back below the poverty line just a week after Christmas. Paddy Manning on tonight's budget:

11.01.2022 Paddy Manning on how the budget is shaping up and who stands to gain:

11.01.2022 What is Modern Monetary Theory and why should you care? Richard Denniss explains:

08.01.2022 Susan Ryan was an exceptional politician, writes Mungo MacCallum. If things had played out a bit differently, she might well have preceded Julia Gillard to become our first female prime minister.

07.01.2022 Today’s episode of 7am features Helen Garner, speaking about the diaries she kept during lockdown in Melbourne. Listen here: https://buff.ly/3joi2tn And read the essay below:

07.01.2022 Would Galileo’s theory that the Earth orbits the Sun pass the pub test? Would Darwin’s theory of evolution survive the scrutiny of the Sky News commentariat? Richard Denniss on modern monetary theory:

07.01.2022 Congratulations Lesley Hughes, a finalist in the 2020 UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing for this great essay:

06.01.2022 The QAnon theory is dangerous, illogical and reeks of prejudice. But sustainable conspiracy theories borrow from reality, writes Martin McKenzie-Murray:

05.01.2022 The Summer issue, coming soon

04.01.2022 A strange mood in the streets. Low traffic noise. The air’s not moving, the sun shines gently, doves call. It’s paralysis. We don’t know what we’re waiting for or how long it’s going to go on. Helen Garner’s lockdown diaries: