June 15 – 21, 2024
News
Comment
Comment
Paul Bongiorno
Dutton declares climate war
“We are apparently to take the Coalition on trust even though there are internal pressures from former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce and other Nationals for Australia to quit the Paris Agreement. This is something Donald Trump did soon after becoming United States president in 2017.”
Comment
John Hewson
Growth is no measure of electability
“As speculation gathers around the possibility of an early election, I am growing increasingly sceptical. The prime minister has no substantive justification for considering such a move, except to exploit the vulnerability of Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and his team. It would do nothing towards the betterment of Australians.”
Letters, Cartoon & Editorial
Culture
Music
Dirty Three’s Love Changes Everything
Dirty Three’s first album in more than a decade, Love Changes Everything, is a transcendent reaffirmation of the trio’s refusal to obey the conventions of music.
Theatre
Adelaide Cabaret Festival
Adelaide Cabaret Festival is no longer as capricious or anarchic as it once was, but there are still performers who know cabaret is what can be made with an audience on any given night.
Fiction
The collection
“After my collection, the retrieval. There were no viable eggs. Nothing for the deep freeze. Would you believe it? The doctor’s face as she told me. She must have practised this face, but still, she had it all wrong. They should give those doctors acting lessons. It should be mandatory to spend a couple of semesters learning how to feel. Good acting isn’t acting at all, it requires something real, from the heart.”
Books
Life
Puzzles
Quotes
America
“The man that I worship is also a convicted felon. And he was murdered on a Roman cross.”
The far-right politician explains her faith in Jesus. Unfortunately, Donald Trump’s hands are too small to be used for healing.
Clubs
“The Australian Club has a policy that it does not comment on membership nominations.”
The secretary of the Australian Club declines to comment on reports Scott Morrison’s application for membership has been deferred. Morrison misses men-only spaces because they remind him of cabinet.
Comedy
“It doesn’t mean that all comedy goes out the window as a result.”
The comedian responds to Jerry Seinfeld’s belief that comedy has been ruined by political correctness. I mean, what’s the deal with old white men who want to make fun of minorities?
Climate
“Well… well… we’ll make our announcements… in relation to… ahhh… our targets in due course.”
The opposition leader refuses to name his party’s emission reduction target for 2030. This is the same man who thinks renewable supplies are intermittent.
Rent
“I don’t think anyone would willingly rent to him, would they?”
The daughter of Gaenor Meakes responds to a question about whether her family knowingly leased their home to Bruce Lehrmann. The family is pursuing Lehrmann for $13,250 in alleged damages at the property but did not say how much of this was for getting out the smell.
Britain
“There’ll be all sorts of things that I would’ve wanted as a kid that I couldn’t have.”
The billionaire prime minister of Britain talks about the privations of his childhood. For one, his family “famously” didn’t have Sky TV.
