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Barry Jones
Twelve keys to good leadership
“I owe the ALP a great deal, but I am increasingly edgy about where the two major parties are heading, their increasing factionalism and secretive oligarchies … I put the planet first, then Homo sapiens, then other species, and place national interest, my own or anyone else’s nation, some distance down the list. I have no sense of the tribal…”
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Artist Reko Rennie
Contemporary artist and Kamilaroi man Reko Rennie combines his Aboriginal identity with his urban coming of age to take on the major artistic institutions of Australia.
Fiction
The mother cut
“That night, as the baby fed, I scrolled through old photos on my phone and wondered if you could envy yourself. I saw my face, my body, my hair, from years and even months ago, and felt a painful tightening in my throat and my jaw. I began to resent the phrase I had heard, yet I could not stop repeating it to myself – the mother cut, the mother cut.”
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Laws
“We will, quick as you like, put a repeal bill back into the Queensland parliament on those abortion laws.”
The leader of Katter’s Australian Party promises to recriminalise abortion in Queensland. As an adult baby, this is particularly important to him and his all-male parliamentary colleagues.
Life
“You have nothing. Strange porridge.”
The actor says there is no afterlife, after revealing he was dead for several minutes while suffering Covid-19. To be honest, in the Vittoria Coffee commercials it looks as if he’s been dead for longer than that.
Television
“I didn’t understand it. Cakes are readily available in the shops.”
The television host explains why she left The Great British Bake Off. She also said she prefers cheese.
Politics
“Have you got Tourette’s or something?”
The prime minister responds to an interjection from the opposition benches. He later apologised for his outburst.
Radio
“I’ll travel, I’ll sit about, I’ll read more … and I’ll catch up with things that I should have caught up with a long time ago.”
The veteran broadcaster announces his retirement. That Valvoline isn’t going to gargle itself.
Conspiracy
“Ask your government if the weather is manipulated or controlled. Did you ever give permission to them to do it?”
The American congresswoman suggests the government is secretly responsible for Hurricane Helene. The theory has something to do with lasers and her being utterly mad.
