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  • RELIGION

    An honest broker trying to find answers: Frank Brennan at 50 years a Jesuit

    • Jim McDermott
    • 13 March 2025

    Frank Brennan wears his prominence lightly. A priest, lawyer, and tireless advocate for Indigenous rights and refugees, he is as at home in political corridors as he is at the dinner table, welcoming friends with stories and good cheer. Now, celebrating 50 years as a Jesuit, he reflects on faith, justice, and a life of service.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Portents

    • Michael Farrell
    • 13 March 2025

    Portents, auguries, challenge my faith. A star shines over a publishing house. They have produced a book by a poet who has never written a word. Poetry bends, pretends, protects, its grand scope.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    We must keep toxic election culture out of Australia

    • Sarah Klenbort
    • 12 March 2025

    As Australia heads towards another federal election, the influence of big money in politics looms larger. In the U.S., billionaires and corporate interests have eroded trust in government. Campaigns there cost billions of dollars, while ours, for now, do not. But can we keep it that way?

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Flesh is a revelation of what fiction can do

    • Peter Craven
    • 07 March 2025

    David Szalay’s Flesh unfolds with quiet, mesmeric intensity, charting a life shaped by desire, disappointment and disaster. As the ordinary shades into the catastrophic, Szalay’s controlled, unshowy prose builds a world of betrayals, longings and subtle devastations, proving, once again, that no one writes the ache of being alive quite like him.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    True crime, fake illness, real profits

    • Nikki Richardson
    • 06 March 2025

    In Netflix series Apple Cider Vinegar, Belle Gibson’s wellness scam has been repackaged for the streaming era, perfectly illustrating how news, entertainment, and advertising function as overlapping parts of the same machinery to keep us consuming content.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    The week America betrayed Ukraine and itself

    • Sergey Maidukov Sr.
    • 06 March 2025

    Thirty years after the US pledged to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty, Zelensky arrived in Washington asking America to honour its promise. What he found was a White House willing to humiliate him because the cost of keeping its word has become too high. 

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