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First-hand accounts of WWII brutality made me gasp
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (599+ words) If these difficult times are any guide, it is the individuals who experience the crimes against humanity that take place in war who are the most effective at communicating the experience. This intense and powerful new documentary film is an…...
Climate emitters opt for cheap offsets, few real cuts
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (518+ words) Australia's biggest polluters appear to be hoarding credits generated by staying beneath the emissions baseline while cheap carbon credits dominate the nation's flagship industrial climate scheme." The second batch of figures under Labor's reworked safeguard mechanism reveals a growing reliance…...
Young men are looking for help in all the wrong places
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (791+ words) Like most people with a Netflix subscription, I recently watched the latest doco from Louis Theroux called Inside the Manosphere. It explores the growing popularity of people like Andrew Tate: influencers who promote a toxic form of masculinity that's filled…...
Liberals' migration plan 'strange', from 'another time"
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (619+ words) The coalition's hardline migration plan has been lashed as divisive and Australia's multicultural communities say they are tired of being dehumanised by all sides of politics. Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has unveiled a plan to boot migrants from the nation…...
Yes, we need big changes to tax, but here's why the budget isn't the place for it
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1015+ words) Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers have confirmed in the past week that the May budget will contain major tax changes to help intergenerational inequality. Hopefully, it will be more than the half-hearted tinkering we have seen so…...
Baby Boomers beware: a macabre new satire hits close to home
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (67+ words) Rosalie Ham. Allen & Unwin. $34. 99. Martha Ackmann. St Martin's Press. $36. 99. Iain Campbell, Charley Hesse, Phil Gregory. Princeton University Press. $55. Patricia A. O'Brien. Allen & Unwin. $36. 99. Fiona Wright. Ultimo Press. $34. 99. Anna Maynard. Echo. $34. 99. Love books? Us too! For more reads and recommendations, browse our…...
'Manosphere' in sights as premier shakes up cabinet
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (415+ words) The infiltration of the manosphere into Australian boys and young men's minds has sparked the creation of a new state ministry role. Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan's new cabinet was sworn-in at Government House in Melbourne on Wednesday morning. She picked…...
'I just cried': how one traveller lost every photo from two years abroad
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (479+ words) Fabiana De Abreu remembers the precise moment she realised she'd lost her travel memories. "I just cried," she told Explore. "It was horrible." In her early 20s, the Sydney woman spent months travelling through south-east Asia, documenting everything on her phone…...
Inflatable penguins and Trump tweets: Triennial is back
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (391+ words) An array of foil inflatable penguins, life-size chess and a display of conspiracy theories alongside LED Trump tweets are part of a free blockbuster exhibition set to take Australia's culture capital by storm. The Triennial exhibition features more than 80 works…...
Unwalkable and 'dead': the image problem facing this town centre
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (642+ words) One of Canberra's town centres has been described as unwalkable and "dead", with residents saying they want the centre of "Belcompton" to become a place people want to live and work. Belconnen Community Council president Lachlan Butler has criticised a…...