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LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 13: Kanye West and Bianca Censori are seen on May 13, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Rachpoot/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

This is performative existence, and we’re all watching

The distressing powerlessness of Bianca Censori.

A woman buyS vegetables at a supermarket in Buenos Aires on May 23, 2024. Argentina's economic activity continued to plummet in March, with the construction and manufacturing industries leading the slowdown as President Javier Milei's government slashes spending, official figures showed Wednesday. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP)

Finding happiness at the supermarket checkout

This little supermarket doesn’t have a fancy cheese section or a bottle shop attached, but it has everything I need – a worker whose infectious joy exalts.

commentaryThe Weekend Australian Magazine

Gilgandra High School in the state’s central west has developed a groundbreaking initiative to provide free sports bras to their female students to encourage them to participate in sports after staff were alerted of pain and discomfort. Pictured (left) Molly Fairy, alana Elson, Bella Townsend, Teacher Illana Austen, Kailee Edwards, Chloe Eason.

This small town high school started a bra-volution

This story of the bra that changed lives made me cry.

Two honey bees gathering pollen and nectar from bright yellow native Australian wattle blooms - new buds evident: acacia pycnantha (golden wattle); focus on bee and flowers in middle of frame. Yellow is dominant colour

In the depths of winter, wattle’s tiny pompoms lift my heart

Over 1,000 wattle species festoon our bushland, highways and gardens, and my heart always sings at the sight of that wintery gorgeousness.

Relationships

Man and woman, young heterosexual couple in bed, relaxing in bed and cuddling.

Porn is to blame for the rise of this ghastly practice

I’m guessing that at no other time in the span of human sexuality has such a shocking act featured so heavily in the bedroom.

Stack of newspaper on blue background close up

Is there a certain etiquette for shared newspapers?

I choose my café carefully for its newsprint, of all persuasions and parishes, because I like to know what the other side thinks.

Making tea is an expression of love in our house

This weekend, the older boys are back for the second one’s birthday and the creaky old house seems to expand with their presence. ‘Cuppa, mum?’

Adventurous, active women exploring the wild beauty of Tasmania, Australia.

The powerful connection between nature and our happiness

We all need an awakening now and then to the power greater and more mysterious than us, which is this wondrous planet.

Shot of a young businesswoman looking stressed out while working on a laptop in an office at night

My life has been colonised by migraines

They crashed into my world in my mid-thirties during a period of intense work stress. The agony can be so intense that I think death would be preferable, think death would be a relief.

2023 Toyota HiLux GR, Ford Ranger Wildtrak X, Volkswagen Amarok PanAmericana comparison test. Photo: Mark Bean

The rise of monster trucks feels like an affront

The owners seem so unthinking about their impact on others. This feels like the supremacy of self-interest, a pointer to civilisation’s end point. The meaning: each to their own.