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"AUKUS represents not so much a response to a security threat – Australia remains among the safest countries in the world – but rather the veneration of a longstanding cultural tradition," writes defence expert Albert Palazzo. trib.al/YeyLIpH
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“You could go to the Labor Party now, and they’ve got processes in place to handle money and policy committees … They have people with accounting and legal backgrounds. None of these checks and balances exist in One Nation." trib.al/F10uTXF
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Indigenous groups have expressed concerns over the impact of emissions a proposed energy-from-waste facility near Parkes will have on sacred sites, and say they have not been properly consulted. trib.al/UlQIhld
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This week, the parliamentary inquiry into Labor’s planned cuts to the National Disability Insurance Scheme heard evidence of people already suffering from constrained services and fearing worse to come. trib.al/yDGVdl5
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An influential American organisation of conservative and libertarian lawyers, judges and law students called The Federalist Society has helped Donald Trump stack court benches with right-wing judges. Could the same happen here? trib.al/MFjF7lY
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“On a scale of zero to 10 for corruption, NSW was a two or three. Queensland a five. Victoria was a 1000. Insane.” trib.al/hPxF7wE
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Exclusive: Pauline Hanson’s One Nation stands to receive $219 million in taxpayer funding over the next five years, according to modelling based on current polling and changes to funding laws. trib.al/4epWsfZ
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Cannes may still function as a marketplace, a hierarchy and a spectacle, but this year its most vital films shared a willingness to risk humiliation, intimacy and failure, writes Andy Hazel.
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Lucianne Tonti on what could be the stupidest pivot of the year – sustainable sneaker company Allbirds’ pivot to AI tech.
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Florentina Holzinger's work swings between dance, theatre, porn, performance art, visual art, circus, martial arts, musicals, opera, fetish, body horror – you name it, Holzinger will attack it.
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This week's cryptic crossword… trib.al/iYeimy0
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“Over two centuries capitalism has increased standards of living, lifted the masses out of poverty, made us healthier and wealthier. We enjoy lives materially unimaginable for our great grandparents. However, it has run its course.” | Stan Grant
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“Over two centuries capitalism has increased standards of living, lifted the masses out of poverty, made us healthier and wealthier. We enjoy lives materially unimaginable for our great grandparents. However, it has run its course.” | Stan Grant
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In another blow to sustainable fashion, San Francisco-based sneaker company Allbirds has pivoted to one of the least sustainable industries on the planet – AI tech.
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This year’s Venice Biennale is entangled with the spectacle of contemporary geopolitics but points towards a quieter politics of care and collective attention.
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At this year’s Venice Biennale, the most compelling works seek to rupture structures of authority through performance and voice.
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Cannes may still function as a marketplace, a hierarchy and a spectacle, but this year its most vital films shared a willingness to risk humiliation, intimacy and failure, writes Andy Hazel.
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Fiction: Strains – a word I use expressly – of music weasel through the wall of our segregated domain. Wailing men from decades long gone, dogs howling from a kennel. Here’s one moaning that things’ll never be the same.
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At this year’s Venice Biennale, the most compelling works seek to rupture structures of authority through performance and voice.
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“This monstrosity they want to put there, it’s got to go. My concern is health, contamination of Country that will also affect the farmers and their economy, and our bush tucker.” trib.al/AZe1UBt
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