Oslo Davis cartoon, December 6, 2025

December 6 – 12, 2025 Edition No. 579

Exclusive: PM’s office directs lobbyists to use encrypted, disappearing messages Jason Koutsoukis

‘Kicking and screaming’: UTS admits to secret spreadsheet Rick Morton

Watt reforms leave door wide open to environmental carnage Bob Brown

Victorian AG admits youth crime laws violate human rights charter Denham Sadler

The shrinkage of Australian arts funding Santilla Chingaipe

Why Victorian death certificates are unreliable Michael Winkler

Labor’s new AI plan puts faith in self-regulation Karen Barlow

Ukraine war ‘neither further nor closer’ to resolution: Kremlin Jonathan Pearlman

How to restore Australia’s national security Michael G. Smith

The PM’s backyard wedding Paul Bongiorno

Understanding what separates Russia from the West Stan Grant

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Bruce Lehrmann’s big lie

Richo’s own goal

Director Constantine Costi Stephen A. Russell

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery Luke Goodsell

John Nixon’s Song of the Earth Carolyn Barnes

Marrakech International Film Festival Andy Hazel

Pinchgut Opera’s Messiah Harriet Cunningham

Three poems Mark Young

Dead and Alive Mireille Juchau

Ankami Monique Grbec

Lithosphere Andy Jackson

Îles flottantes (Floating islands) Andrew McConnell

Westwood | Kawakubo at NGV International Lucianne Tonti

Poignant memories of junior cricket Martin McKenzie-Murray

No. 579 Liam Runnalls

Rose Byrne stars in the Mary Bronstein film If I Had Legs I’d [what]? Cindy MacDonald