Hello and welcome to this week’s Current Affairs Wrap. We’ve ... Read the full article
The more tone-deaf hot takes I hear, the more convinced I am that they share a lot of similarities with cooties.
The philosophy of the cashless welfare card is the perfect marriage of neoliberal ideology and evangelical Christianity, both of which pathologise, criminalise and individualise poverty as a lifestyle choice.
How are we expected to make social change possible when we pick and choose our exposure alternate opinion? Welcome to the Echo Chamber.
The Epstein case continues to throw up questions, as his autopsy has discovered a broken bone that is extremely common in homicidal strangulation.
We’ve long treated trauma-emboldened sleep disorders by treating the trauma. A pioneering group of researchers believe that we should do the opposite.
Last week, our plan to reduce waste by recycling made the news. However, the truth is that we’re wholly unprepared to meet the challenge.
The author of the stabbing rampage in Sydney’s CBD is set to be charged with murder, with the police unsure whether he will be deemed medically fit to stand trial.
Last night, Julie Bishop articulated the gender divide in Australian politics. In 2013, she did much to embolden that divide.
Amidst the Hong Kong demonstrations is something far more violent: the two cents we white people feel we need to put in.
The Bourke Street terrorist attack was a case of Melbourne real-life glancing in the rear-view mirror and finding Hollywood. Let’s not ruin the fairytale.
In news just to hand, there has been a series of stabbings in the CBD, one where the suspect was chased down by a pack of furious bystanders.
With the narrative around Jeffrey Epstein’s death continuing to change, I feel it’s only right that we wear the label of conspiracy theorist proudly.
While we all regularly fall prey to nostalgia, I suggest we should steer clear. To prove it, I’ve uncovered a pile of grating poetry I wrote as a youth.
We have pushed to ensure that survivors of violence do not have to face couples counselling. For this, feminists have been labelled by the media as “witches” who are out to “control our society”.
We’ve all got a certain point in internet arguments where we wonder how people can cling to such obviously false facts. Well, turns out there’s a science to it.
Accused sex trafficker and friend to the powerful, Jeffrey Epstein has died by apparent suicide. The internet is not convinced.
I have something to admit. I live for the low blows and logically-inept battleground of Internet comment boxes. I know it’s a war where nothing is ever won, but I shoulder arms nonetheless.
With conservatives around the world descending on Sydney for the first CPAC, many aimed blows at the function.
While we were distracted, America levelled new sanctions against two of their current enemies, Chelsea Manning and the people of Venezuela.
I went down the river Netflix order to define it. I returned, changed, fatigued, and understood by Michael Douglas. The horror.
This morning, Andrew Hastie channelled Winston Churchill, painting China as the greatest threat since Nazi Germany. History shows what happens when we remember similar nonsense.
