June 7 – 13, 2025
News
Comment
Comment
Greg Bourne
The real reason for the North West Shelf project
“Without extending the operating life of the North West Shelf gas processing facility, Woodside’s plan to plunder the Browse gas field can’t proceed. And they know it. That’s why they’re pushing this project through, door by door, approval by approval.”
Comment
Paul Bongiorno
Albanese pushes back on Trump
“It has taken the second coming of the wildly erratic Donald Trump and a landslide election win to do it, but Anthony Albanese is finally manifesting a new-found confidence in standing up for Australia with his responses to the whims of our key strategic partner.”
Comment
John Hewson
The path to an electable Coalition
“The Liberal and National parties have agreed to give the relationship another go but at a worrying cost. Disunity is now a significant challenge for the new Coalition, both within each party and between them, compounded by the recent allocation of portfolios.”
Letters, Cartoon & Editorial
Culture
Profile
Director Wes Anderson
Shortly before the premiere of his new film, The Phoenician Scheme, Wes Anderson reflects on his journey to becoming one of the world’s most distinctive filmmakers.
Fiction
Rental crisis
“What is left behind in his room? his books? no, someone else’s books, nothing of importance, that only he could find use for, no clothes to speak of other than the coat, the boots on his feet, where have they come from? if there are more, where are they now? being preserved for prosperity?”
Books
Life
Puzzles
Quotes
Culture
“It’s conservatives who are best placed to meet the challenges of these times … We don’t believe ourselves to be morally superior to our grandparents.”
The former PM opines on the virtues of conservatism. For this particular audience, respecting the lessons of history probably does mean rejecting grandpa’s moral compass.
Progress
“Women are sufficiently assertive now … we should be giving some thought to whether we need to protect men’s involvement.”
The octogenarian Liberal executive suggests to the New South Wales Liberal Women’s Council that the party might consider quotas for men. He’s invited to these things because it’s always funny to see a garden gnome in a suit.
Disasters
“I didn’t know the US had a hurricane season.”
The acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency comments in a speech announcing there will be no new disaster response plan this year. That swirling hot air is indistinguishable on Capitol Hill.
Principles
“I respect when people understand what their own values are.”
The Greens leader offers her opinion on the defection of Dorinda Cox from her party to Labor. That is admirable diplomacy, in the week following the government’s decision to approve the North West Shelf project.
Education
“I am Agatha Christie.”
A digitally enhanced actor appears as the late crime novelist to teach a BBC Maestro series writing course. Because what’s lacking in literature today is racism.
Crime
“Trust is a fragile thing…”
The member for Lingiari calls for the Australian Federal Police to handle the criminal investigation into the killing of 24-year-old Warlpiri man Kumanjayi White. His passing coincides with the inquest into the death in custody of teenager Kumanjayi Walker.
