March 9 – 15, 2024
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Comment
Antoinette Braybrook
First Nations women hold key to real progress
“This year’s International Women’s Day theme is ‘Count Her In: Invest in women. Accelerate progress’. As an Aboriginal woman with more than 20 years’ experience working on the frontline of First Nations women’s safety, this theme prompts deep reflection about who counts, what is counted (and what isn’t), and whose solutions are deemed worthy of investment to ‘accelerate progress’.”
Comment
John Hewson
Renewables deniers and the nuclear mirage
“The climate wars are not over. Denialists have just moved on to oppose renewables. The opposition and its media mates now seek to deny renewables as a cost-effective alternative energy source – in this country with its abundance of solar, wind and organic waste feedstocks, in quantities that are the envy of most other parts of the world.”
Letters, Cartoon & Editorial
Culture
Profile
Filmmaker Catherine Breillat
Outsider French director Catherine Breillat’s acclaimed film Last Summer – her first feature in a decade – explores the human capacity for self-deception.
The Influence
Evelyn Krape on Carlton’s legendary Pram Factory
The Pram Factory – home of the radical 1970s theatre collective the Australian Performing Group – taught Evelyn Krape she had a voice.
Fiction
The shift
“I hate these jobs. The airport’s half an hour away, and traffic’s heavy. No doubt this woman would rather be alone. I wish I had that luxury too, but I’m in the wrong job. I should be eating dinner with my wife, talking about this flatness that keeps me in bed longer. But I’m here, in the dark, with a stranger who needs to be someplace else. The traffic moves and I nudge forward. A red light stops us again.”
Books
Life
Puzzles
Quotes
Family
“I don’t know when I got the time to do it, but I did it.”
The Liberal candidate for Dunkley uses his concession speech to announce his wife is pregnant. That poor woman.
Gender
“I haven’t heard that issue raised by anyone I’ve met over the time I’ve been here.”
The Liberal candidate for Cook brushes off questions about gender representation after his preselection. He can’t hear the ladies because they speak in those funny little voices.
Politics
“I’m a fighter. I’m not going to be pushed around like this.”
The Victorian Liberal leader stares down speculation he might be replaced. The speculation led many to discover he was in charge of the party.
Comedy
“Well, they’re not letting me travel to Australia.”
The comedy writer and anti-transgender activist announces a delay in his visa application ahead of a speaking tour. He also probably doesn’t like the fact planes have unisex toilets.
Race
“Stupid white bastard.”
The Matildas’ captain is charged with racial vilification after a confrontation with a London police officer. This is the equivalent of falling over and pretending to be injured when someone else gets the ball.
America
“Donald Trump is a little bit of a single-celled organism…”
The Democrat offers a nuanced view of the Republicans’ presumptive presidential candidate. If anything, it’s sort of rough on bacteria.
