Interview
When Rebecca was 13 she was mocked over her viral video. Now the joke’s on the haters
Rebecca Black went viral for all the wrong reasons with her song Friday – then she found her own people and became a queer icon.
- John Bailey
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Mushrooms have had a bad rap lately, but they might just save the planet
British mycologist Merlin Sheldrake (yes, that’s his real name), one of the world’s foremost authorities on fungi, wants us to rethink the place of fungi in our world.
- John Bailey
I can’t really thrash the drums any more: Midnight Oil’s Rob Hirst
The Midnight Oil warrior faces the fight of his life as he deals with stage 3 cancer, armed, as ever, with songs.
- Michael Dwyer
You couldn’t come out as trans 40 years ago and be ... negative: Suzy Izzard
The comedian, actor, political activist and marathon runner believes the future won’t be as bad as it might seem right now.
- John Bailey
If Musk was broke, he’d just be another asshole with bad ideas: Cory Doctorow
The tech activist’s new book examines how tech monopolies innovated ways to disregard, abuse, and suck us dry – and offers us solution to the “enshittification” of the internet.
- Kurt Johnson
Church frontman Steve Kilbey’s biggest regret? ‘Being a prick’
Despite conceding he’s been an “arrogant sod”, the frontman for one of Australia’s best-loved bands is peaking again.
- Michael Dwyer
Cancelled, criticised and complicated as ever, M.I.A. returns to the stage
The pop provocateur returns to Australia, tin foil hat and all.
- Robert Moran
People who want to be offended are always going to be offended: Harry Enfield
The British comedian has dropped a few of his old characters from his repertoire, but says his thing has always been “mischief, not malice”.
- Lenny Ann Low
‘It makes me shudder … there were just no women’: Drummer Lindy Morrison
The radical Go-Between, whose new musical project marks the first time she’s recorded her own songs, is still shocked at the lack of women she sees at reunion gigs of older bands.
- Michael Dwyer
After the death of her sister, this author wrote a diatribe against social media
UK journalist Adele Zeynep Walton’s call for a new approach to the digital world is passionate, but lacks proper interrogation.
- Flynn Benson
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