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November issue on newsstands Monday (online today for subscribers), featuring a cover essay investigation of The Resilience Project, the schools wellbeing program with a questionable evidence base. Plus Alan Kohler, Margaret Simons, Ted Chiang and more.
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Academic studies on how to prevent corruption conclude that treating everyone as untrustworthy doesn’t help. It normalises misconduct – makes people think everyone is doing it, so they might as well.
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Margaret started lifting a decade ago and became so enamoured by the sport that she and her younger friend, Di Weick, 70, also competing at nationals, would drive two and a half hours each way, from Yamba to Chinderah in north-eastern NSW, to train.
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If you saw this eclectic bunch of older women at the local cafe, chatting over their lattes, you’d never guess they could lift such enormous weights.
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France is now in a debt trap – where public debt rises faster than GDP – and the United States is teetering on the brink of it. Both countries have passed the point at which they can only be saved by market forces.
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France is now in a debt trap – where public debt rises faster than GDP – and the United States is teetering on the brink of it. Both countries have passed the point at which they can only be saved by market forces.
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We hear a lot about HRT, but if you really want to avoid having a fall and breaking your hip in your elderly years, it’s simple: lift heavy.
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Hilary could be cruel. I would seethe silently. After her heart attack in 1994, we recovered from our first falling-out, but our erratic dynamic cycled through the decades.
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At some point she took me out to coffee, to break the news that if I ever accessed her archives, I would see that she’d written mean things about me. She hoped I understood. For me, the hardest thing about this conversation was keeping a straight face.
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There are two ways things could fall apart in the US after the midterms as they have in France: Trump manages to subvert the election result in some way, or the new Democrat-controlled Congress impeaches him.
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Helen Haines’ complaint a year ago was met with hostility. How will they respond to her now?
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It was October 17, 1988. I was part of the press pack reporting on the last days of the Fitzgerald Inquiry into corruption in Queensland. Police commissioner Sir Terence Lewis was on the stand. The topic was toilet paper.
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An auction affords the opportunity to connect with the late Martin Phillipps, the founder of seminal New Zealand indie rock band The Chills.
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The State Theatre, located under the building’s landmark spire, opened its doors in 1984. My friend Andrew remembers the excitement he experienced on first visiting.
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In February 2024, Helen Haines introduced a private member’s bill aimed at overhauling the grants system and stopping pork-barrelling. The government refused to have it debated.
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The refurbishment of a key venue in Melbourne’s Arts Precinct is welcome for its improved accessibility, but might fall short of diversifying its audience.
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“Next Gen NYC” features influencers, models, aspiring entrepreneurs and a crypto trader, for whom selling out is the end goal.
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Even as MP Helen Haines remains in hospital, her work on political integrity – and Albanese’s golf club grant – still reverberates through Canberra. mnth.ly/gVy5kOD
Martin Phillipps left no widow or grieving partner. He left no children. He lived alone and drove a shitty car. He made art in his backyard from the mummified bodies of long dead cats, rats and birds, which he spraypainted with day-glo colours.
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