July 25, 2015
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Roast pork belly salad with pickled walnuts and radicchio
Making pork belly an excuse for a salad.
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Nine days of dance at India’s Navrati festival
Gujarat is a blur of colour and movement during Navratri festival, India’s carnevale with a Hindu heart.
The Quiz
Quotes
RACE
“None of these people represent me and I do not support them.”
The singer responds to Reclaim Australia’s misuse of his songs, especially “Khe Sanh”. Thousands of drunken backpackers fear similar orders.
MUSIC
“Do not watch Jimmy Fallon’s Show/ He’s got nothing to talk about, because he’s horrible.”
The Melbourne rapper responds with a diss track to a segment in which the American comic mocked his music. While exceedingly polite, he missed an obvious opportunity to rhyme on the word “rapscallion”.
POLITICS
“He is a war hero because he was captured? I like people that weren’t captured, okay?”
The presidential hopeful mocks John McCain’s military service in Vietnam. Which is a bold move for someone whose hair looks like a paddy field flattened by hovering helicopters.
ANIMALS
“Your country is sullied by the blood of millions of innocent animals, so please, don’t add cats to this morbid record.”
The French actor urges environment minister Greg Hunt to reconsider his proposed cull of two million feral cats, another sorry chapter in the government’s relationship with celebrities and smaller mammals.
ART
“When I got it back I felt my heart was at peace.”
The Chinese artist has his passport returned after four years. Days earlier, nearly 200 human rights lawyers and activists were arrested in a government crackdown.
FEDERATION
“If the Commonwealth star was to be a seven-pointer star rather than a six-pointer star, that’s hardly a massive change.”
The prime minister reflects on a push to have the Northern Territory recognised as a state. And in being wrong, he’s right: the Commonwealth star already has seven points.
