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Treasurer Jim Chalmers has announced a medley of cost-of-living relief measures in the federal budget, …
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Jane Caro
Free education is possible
“If we are going to increase the participation of the least well-off students in tertiary education, we must first tackle their experience in primary and secondary education, not to mention early childhood, where the poorest are the ones most likely to miss out.”
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Culture
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Kim Gordon and the wall of faceless men
At 71, alternative rock and riot grrrl pioneer Kim Gordon is still making experimental music and visual art – and still refusing to please.
Television
Netflix’s Baby Reindeer
Comedian Richard Gadd’s whip-smart Netflix hit, Baby Reindeer, is compelling because it refuses to simplify the realities of trauma.
Fiction
The position
“There was something ahead, dimly visible. A change in the light. She trod carefully on the soft dust, compressing underfoot like sand. A kind of structure jutted out. Shreds of orange against the grey. She thought it was her own life craft at first, that she must have got turned around, but this one had been here much longer, was already half buried. Empty, of course. Too late to look for footprints.”
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Medicine
“A worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”
The United States presidential candidate explains the cause of his memory loss and mental fogginess. The disclosure was made during divorce proceedings, where a worm is one of the few things that can be split evenly in two and survive.
Relationships
“The reason I got with young men is because men my age are older – well, now they’re all dead.”
The singer and actress explains how she came to be dating a man who is almost four decades younger than her. Looked at another way, he’s the same age as her face.
Television
“It’s very early days, but it’s not out of the question.”
The former television host announces he has been in talks to revive Hey Hey It’s Saturday. It’s these sorts of conservative programming decisions that take opportunities away from the next generation of racist entertainers.
Politics
“Vladimir showed me a violent nature that I didn’t imagine in such a kind and rational man.”
The former Italian prime minister describes a hunting trip with Vladimir Putin, relayed in a memoir by Fabrizio Cicchitto. Putin apparently offered Berlusconi a deer’s heart, which caused him to vomit behind a tree.
Aviation
“This is the least that Qantas could do after they misled their customers.”
The treasurer reprimands the airline after it was fined for booking customers onto cancelled flights. Not flying was the only way they could be certain not to lose luggage.
Climate
“Frustration, I think, is about the fact that the way it’s been handled and presented does not reflect the work the government is doing.”
The Labor politician complains about her party’s plan to continue investment in gas. The problem is that it reflects exactly what the government is doing.
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