April 19 – 25, 2025
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Kieran Pender
Labor’s failures on transparency
“Transparency and integrity are ideals imbued with symbolism, but they have very real practical meaning in our democracy … Together, they mean a government free from corruption and wrongdoing – or at least, a government where wrongdoers are held to account.”
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John Hewson
What can the RBA do about Trump?
“As United States President Donald Trump’s tariffs unleash chaos and turmoil across global markets, financial authorities around the world are forced into the unenviable role of working out how to protect their economies.At such an unpredictable juncture, with the leader of the world’s largest economy going rogue, who would want to be a central banker? ”
Letters, Cartoon & Editorial
Culture
Profile
Writer Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson was one of the first British writers to tackle the implications of technology – and she’s still at the cutting edge.
Fiction
Boots
“It’s pizza Friday and Saoirse won’t be here. The neighbours are coming, so we need to double the batch of dough. Dad says there are four of us and three of them after Mum comes home. But actually not, because Saoirse won’t be here. There are seven pieces of dough. Dad says there will be one piece of dough left. “Such a waste,” he says, as the bin drawer rolls to a close. Suddenly Saoirse walks down the stairs in Mum’s red boots.”
Books
Life
Puzzles
Quotes
Health
“They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date.”
The United States Secretary of Health shares his understanding of children with autism. As ever, it is important to remember doctors found real worms in his brain.
Television
“That’s a very online conversation, very nuanced and complicated, and not something we’re going to get into.”
The chief executive of HBO responds to questions about the racist and transphobic views of J. K. Rowling. By nuanced, he meant lucrative.
Politics
“This is a person vying to be deputy prime minister of our nation and he speaks about a female member of parliament as though she is a dog.”
The Labor minister asks David Littleproud to apologise after he said Lisa Chesters has the pull of a chihuahua. The Nationals leader has clearly never walked one.
Family
“Great to have Harry on the road. Couldn’t do this without you mate…”
The opposition leader campaigns on housing alongside his son. He later confessed he’d probably have to help him out buying a property.
Court
“I’m the ultimate good boy, the perfect boyfriend.”
The adviser to former federal MP Craig Kelly appeals against a string of indecent assault convictions. Not the behaviour of an ultimate good boy at all.
Money
“I have no oversight or control of the trust.”
The Liberal candidate for Kooyong is revealed as a beneficiary of a $20 million family trust. What happened to conservatives being proud of their obscene intergenerational wealth and running on platforms of hoarding more?
