June 4 – 10, 2022
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Comment
Comment
Rod Bower
That feeling you have is called ‘moral injury’
“Although the Labor Party has now secured the required majority to govern, Anthony Albanese is far from having won the electorate’s hearts and minds. This will take time. Moral injury does not go away with a change of leader; this kind of injury must be addressed by truth-telling, justice and reconciliation.”
Comment
Paul Bongiorno
Ghosts of prime ministers past
“Albanese brings to the job the enormous authority of leading the party out of the wilderness after almost a decade. Over the past three years there were plenty of wellwishers but also plenty of doubters. Albanese’s ‘come from behind, kicking with the wind in the fourth quarter’ strategy was a worry.”
Letters, Cartoon & Editorial
Culture
The Influence
Leeroy New
For Filipino artist Leeroy New, Hayao Miyazaki’s classic animation Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind helped inform a creative evolution.
Fiction
Passcode
“Di’s clothes are piled beside Matt on the sand. He picks up her pullover and presses it to his face. It’s warm and smells of her. He checks the pockets of her jeans and finds her phone. It’s locked but he thumbs in the six digits of her birthday – 080888 – and the screen flowers open, illuminating his face. He smiles and scrolls through Di’s emails and text messages, call history and social media feeds. He tells himself he doesn’t know what he’s looking for, but that’s a lie.”
Books
Life
Puzzles
Quotes
Music
“The challenges he faces are daunting and I don’t envy him his success.”
The folk singer responds to Anthony Albanese quoting a lyric of his, as a way to explain fairness. After a prime minister whose only frame for music was Tina Arena, it’s a welcome change.
Politics
“He is a warm-hearted, very, decent, competent individual.”
The Liberal offers his view of new leader Peter Dutton. It’s not clear how he made the assessment, but it probably involved the same algorithm he used for robo-debt.
Priorities
“Now, I have a chance to get back to my second greatest love, after my family.”
The former deputy prime minister reacts to being dumped by his party room. Just to be clear, he’s talking about his electorate and not a third family.
Tech
“This is less than we ask of factory workers.”
The Tesla chief executive instructs staff that they must be in the office at least 40 hours a week. In fairness, what he asks of factory workers is sometimes their lives.
Consent
“… sometimes people are prepared to go to extreme lengths to damage their former partner.”
The shock jock explains his concerns about affirmative consent laws introduced in New South Wales. A man who has illegally recorded people for stories is not exactly familiar with the notion of an enthusiastic yes.
Treasury
“The case for Angus Taylor as shadow treasurer is compelling…”
The former chief-of-staff pre-empts Angus Taylor’s appointment to the shadow ministry. Who knows more about money than a man who absolutely doesn’t have any of it hidden in the Cayman Islands?
