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Curator Michael Dagostino (left) have and artist Khaled Sabsabi have been reinstated after being dropped as Australia’s entry to Venice in 2026.

There is only one worthwhile test of social cohesion. We may have just failed it

Governments like to censor art which promotes division. But that leads to propaganda.

  • Jacqueline Maley

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Mo Chara of Kneecap performs at the Glastonbury music festival. The band’s set is now under police investigation.

At Glastonbury, left-wing politics are shocking again

Artists like Kneecap and Bob Vylan are rediscovering the cultural power of shock, largely because of horror unfolding in the Gaza Strip and the minefield of taboos around discussing them.

  • Michelle Goldberg
Spenny reaches out to fans as he performs at ONEFOUR’s album launch event at Sydney Dragway in Eastern Creek, in Sydney’s west on Thursday night.

OneFour’s message to the police: ‘We’re different now. We’re good people’

Rap group OneFour is about to embark on a tour around the country in support of their debut album. The only place they won’t perform? Their hometown of Sydney.

  • Thomas Mitchell
Nude dressing on the red carpet: Halle Berry at the 2025 Met Gala, Kanye West and wife Bianca Censori at the 2025 Grammy Awards, and Bella Hadid at Cannes last year.

What the Cannes ‘nude dress’ ban really reveals

The ban on nudity on the red carpet is not about women’s bodies. It’s a political statement.

  • Adam Geczy
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In their pursuit of profits, social media platforms have fostered harmful environments where social discord, misinformation and disinformation flourish.

The tell-all memoir Mark Zuckerberg tried to stop you reading

It’s hard to know whether the Facebook boss’s symbolic ways of currying favour with China are more remarkable than Meta’s apparent plan to let the Communist Party snoop on users outside the country.

  • Nick Bonyhady

How American liberalism lost its way and handed Trump a path to victory

Trump’s electoral resurrection was, in part, a rejection of the intolerance which has come to be emblematic of American progressivism.

  • George Brandis
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Julianne Moore.

Trump Defence outfit pulls Julianne Moore’s picture book embracing freckles

The Oscar-winning actor says her book is semi-autobiographical and has been banned from more than 160 schools run by the Department of Defence Education Activity for military families.

  • Nell Geraets
Composite image by Aresna Villanueva.

When cancel culture goes this far, our democracy is in peril

An Australian human rights lawyer is the latest victim of a campaign to shut down Jewish people who dare to criticise Israel.

  • Josh Bornstein

Banning G-strings at public pools is a bummer for some, but it’s the right move

Blue Mountains City Council has banned G-string bikinis at its pools, causing online outrage. But not everyone wants to see your bare bum.

  • Cherie Gilmour
Anthony Albanese will go toe-to-toe with Adam Bandt’s Greens in Parliament this week over Labor’s agenda.

No compromise: Labor targets Greens in election on up to 20 bills

Labor has pulled its misinformation crackdown and won’t put forward gambling reform this week but is pushing the Greens to accept its agenda on up to 20 other bills unchanged.

  • David Crowe

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