One wonders how many of those making the 'equivalence' accusation, including quite a few in the press, had taken 10 minutes to read the ICC prosecutor’s statement.

Latest column, on the 'equivalence' argument and what it obscures.

smh.com.au/world/middle-e…

I'm very late to this, but jesus this is one of the best things I've read this year. Elias Greig, way to go fucking us up stealth like. It's easy to brush over how concentrated the beauty is packed in, at the sentence level. Transcendent.

overland.org.au/2024/03/freeho…

Honoured to make the finalists for the June Andrews Award for Freelance Journalist of the Year, for pieces tackling some of the failures in our national conversation. And good luck to excellent journalists Gabriella Coslovich and Pete McKenzie !

walkleys.com/2024-mid-year-…

about to go live on ABC Radio Melbourne with Raf Epstein to discuss the proposed social media ban for under-16s

listen live: abc.net.au/listen/live/me…

On the 24th anniversary of In the Mood for Love’s premiere, here’s an anecdote by Alejandro Gonalzález Iñárritu about watching it at Cannes.

I've covered every budget since 1998. They normally don't leave me angry. But a $6.5b decision forced on the current government contained in last week's budget is still upsetting me .. theage.com.au/politics/feder…

Latest column, on what can often feel like Peter Dutton’s obsessive need to return to the politics of race - the problems with it and the political risk it poses to him.

smh.com.au/politics/feder…

Latest column, on what can often feel like Peter Dutton’s obsessive need to return to the politics of race - the problems with it and the political risk it poses to him.

smh.com.au/politics/feder…

Whose boots really rule Canberra? And other frivolities from yesterday afr.com/rear-window/ji…

'Accounting and consulting firm Grant Thornton will permanently move to a nine-day fortnight after a 12-month trial coincided with record-high productivity, employee retention and profits.'

afr.com/work-and-caree…

Alice Munro has been my favorite writer since I first read her work when I was 16, in 1991. I've written and spoken about my admiration for her many times. This is a piece in The Cut from 2017.
Although we never met, I'm so deeply grateful to her ❤️

thecut.com/2017/09/what-w…

We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Munro (1931–2024). In memory of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Fiction interview from our archive.

theparisreview.org/interviews/179…

What I wrote about David McBride late last year. Still valid questions about both the government and media.

A letter in The Age this morning

You can't claim to be serious about stopping climate change while talking about opening up new gas fields. Or claim to be serious about stopping men killing women while leaving JobSeeker as is.

Latest column, on Labor's various confusing signals.

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You can't claim to be serious about stopping climate change while talking about opening up new gas fields. Or claim to be serious about stopping men killing women while leaving JobSeeker as is.

Latest column, on Labor's various confusing signals.

smh.com.au/politics/feder…

'perhaps we don’t mind if people in other countries think of us as among the stingiest of the rich countries. The kind of person who’d walk past someone in trouble without offering them help.'

Ross Gittins on JobSeeker and Labor's hints of no change

smh.com.au/business/the-e…

love this from Daany Saeed talking to Samantha Maiden on the difference between leaks and drops

(and her Walkley for the Morrison in Hawaii story
- 'nobody was going to think that was a drop, that’s for sure')

crikey.com.au/2024/05/09/lea…

25 years ago today, The @Chaser newspaper launched at Bar Broadway, coincidentally opposite the ABC TV studios that hadn’t yet been built. Sadly, yet typically, we ran late on getting it printed in time to sell at the party. Happy birthday to Charles Firth’s least worst idea!

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