September 13 - 19, 2014
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Food
Chocolate and sea salt biscuits with raspberry jelly
Raspberry jelly and chocolate cookies turn kitchen time into child's play.
Books
Life
Science
Insects teaching us about the birds and the bees
Birds, bees – even educated fleas do it. But why? Weird insect genitalia is helping unravel the evolutionary benefits of sex.
The Quiz
Quotes
ROMANCE
“It wasn’t love, it was just purely business.”
The woman who claimed to have met Geoffrey Edelsten on a sugar daddy website before becoming his lover explains further why he is described as a disgraced businessman.
BIRTHS
“Obviously we’re immensely thrilled, it’s great news.”
The unelected future monarch of Australia glories in the anticipation of producing a second unelected future-future monarch of Australia. An heir and a spare, as it were.
MODESTY
“Brit feminists bang on forever about page 3. I bet never buy paper. I think old fashioned but readers seem to disagree.”
The old-fashioned 83-year-old considers the topless models in his tabloid The Sun, accepting later that “beautiful young women [are] more attractive in at least some fashionable clothes”.
HERITAGE
“It’s a tribal war, I will say, in Tasmania when it comes to Mansell’s group and the rest of us and I would just say to Mansell, ‘I suggest you watch your step with me.’ ”
The PUP senator threatens Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania chairman Clyde Mansell after he questions her claim to be a descendant of Aboriginal resistance leader Mannalargenna.
MEDIA
“Be more ready to give credit where it’s due.”
The prime minister offers his advice to the Australian press, adding his well-worn gag: “I’ve often said that as a journalist I was a frustrated politician, as a politician I’m a frustrated journalist, and while a trainee priest I was just frustrated.”
DEATHS
“I must say I rather enjoyed my 15 minutes of fame, even if I had to die to get them.”
The political journalist and The Saturday Paper’s crossword setter greets news of his death, broken online by Anne Summers. She later apologised; he later lived.
