John Safran joined the Palestinian-flag waving crowds gathered at the Sydney Opera House after the October 7 attacks – specifically because police warned Jews to stay away. But he still doesn’t know what was chanted.
British author Johann Hari breaks down the emotional reckoning that followed his own Ozempic-induced weight-loss, and asks, do the benefits of the drug really outweigh the societal and health risks?
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Forget how tough you think you are: going to prison is scary. If that’s true for grown men, imagine how it feels for a child, having to visit their dad in there.
Sixty thousand years. That is how long the Yolngu people believe they have lived on lands they call Yirrkala, in northeast Arnhem Land. Sixty years ago, local tribes were told they did not in fact own that land. So a plan was hatched.
Sydney’s beauty and glory are mirrored by the Swans — the richest, most popular and arguably most successful team in the league. Melbourne (and Brisbane this weekend) can only dream of such exalted status.
The new chair of the National Museum of Australia council, Clare Wright, took an activist position during the voice referendum last year – and she’s not sorry.
The real-life Kosciuszko never even set foot in Australia, let alone climbed our highest peak. Is it finally time to call it by a name Indigenous people have used for tens of thousands of years?
No Australian woman has ever won the Booker Prize but Sydney’s Charlotte Wood is now on the shortlist.
A former scholarship kid from an exclusive all-boy private school has won a Prime Minister’s Literary Award for a story that celebrates his Greek ancestry.
A stellar debut, a late-in-life romance, a no-nonsense cookbook and plenty more in this week’s wrap of news from the book world.
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