John Hewson has an excellent essay in today's #SaturdayPaper which has removed the paywall for articles about the #VoiceToParliament — so you can share this far and wide.

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topic/2023/08/11/missed-voice-messages?utm_source=Clipboard&utm_medium=social&utm_term=read_shared_article&utm_campaign=social_share_icons&utm_content=sidebar_share

#saturdaypaper The Pearson interview: ‘How does the elephant sit down with the mouse’
Worth noting. This statement was posted at the top of the article stating: "From now until referendum day, we have removed the paywall on all Voice coverage. Read and share this article for free."

So here it is. #VoteYes

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/indigenous-affairs/2023/08/05/the-pearson-interview-how-does-the-elephant-sit-down-with-the

Rick Morton in #SaturdayPaper 8/7/23: "Scott Morrison. Kathryn Campbell. Alan Tudge. Stuart Robert. Malisa Golightly. Annette Musolino. Serena Wilson. Jonathan Hutson. Mark Withnell. Paul McBride. Emma Kate McGuirk. Karen Harfield. Jason McNamara. Craig Storen.

These are the names of the politicians and public servants who lied, dissembled and participated in the active cover-up of a multibillion-dollar fraud carried out against more than 400,000 disadvantaged Australians, motivated by “venality, incompetence and cowardice”."

Couldn't have said it better myself.

#auspol #Woolworths #Coles #inflation #SaturdayPaper

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#auspol #Woolworths #Coles #inflation #SaturdayPaper

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/16316/28mBLH85

Michael Pascoe: "When the coalition of peak Indigenous bodies and every community housing body – through the self-interest of at least getting something down the line – are begging for the HAFF to pass, the Greens’ intransigence looks more about its political desire to harvest the votes of young renters than to provide more housing."

Looks like that to me as well, and judging from Paul Bonjiorno's comments in this weeks #SaturdayPaper , he feels the same way. No wonder #AlboMP is pissed off.

https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2023/06/24/michael-pascoe-greens-housing-crisis/

#SaturdayPaper #Editorial Takes aim at Peta Credlin and The Oz.

"The [Australian] is untroubled by a court finding it true that Ben Roberts-Smith kicked an elderly shepherd off a cliff and then had him shot. It is untroubled by evidence he ordered another man be killed while he was being questioned. It doesn’t care that he machine-gunned a man to death and then took his prosthetic leg as a novelty drinking vessel.

"The Australian pretends it is taking a nuanced position, that it has wrestled with complexity and is publishing what others won’t. This is nonsense. Its coverage of Ben Roberts-Smith is identical to its coverage of climate change. It is contrarian to the point of incoherence. It mistakes its agenda for doubt and treats this error as a virtue."

And for Ben Roberts Smith? He is a victim alright. Of his hubris and of his own actions.

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/editorial/2023/06/10/peta-and-the-wolves

A damning consequence in this article by Rick Morton (squigglyrick):

People lost jobs or family through the devastating spiral caused by financial wounds, their physical and mental health conditions worsened. Others were ground down to nothing while attempting to flee domestic violence.

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-crime/2023/03/11/robo-debt-final-week-it-served-them-right-did-it

#robodebtRC

#SaturdayPaper

#SquigglyRick

In #SaturdayPaper #books and #writing this week:

Novelist Mierille Juchau on Vigdis Hjorth's novel of maternal trauma, Is Mother Dead; Nathan Smith review's Paul Biegler's book on new possibilities for dealing with chronic pain, Why Does It Still Hurt? and Linda Jaivin on Don's Watson's The Passion of Private White.

And also new #fiction from Kate Harris, The Joy of Arriving. “Of course it’s not real! We’re on a fucking magical train for fuck’s sake!”

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/fiction/2023/02/04/the-joy-arriving

#SaturdayPaper #arts and #culture this week:

A profile of young Australian bandoneónist and #tango composer Owen Salomé from Cameron Pegg; #architecture critic Naomi Stead on the Art Gallery of NSW's Sydney Modern; Robert Reid on history, art and the Melbourne Theatre Company's Sunday; John Kinsella on Iggy Pop's Every Loser; Neha Kale talks to art duo The Huxleys on queer icon Leigh Bowery;

#music #theatre

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/music/2023/02/04/bandoneonist-owen-salome

Some great reads in today's #SaturdayPaper #culture and #arts:

Christos Tsiolkas: Cate Blanchett is magnificently troubling in Todd Field’s #film Tár.

Carolyn Barnes: The Peter Tyndall retrospective #VisualArt.

Jini Maxwell reviews the charming #game Pentiment.

In #music, Miriam Cosic profiles Kronos Quartet founder David Harrington.

Kate Holden: Xavier Hennekinne on the #philosophy of Michel Serres

#Fiction: Let them eat cake, by Eleanor Limprecht

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/film/2023/01/28/tar

This essay is a great way to start your Saturday reading because you are left with a feeling of elation that the previous Attorneys General can no longer pull the levers of government.

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2023/01/28/the-dreyfus-interview-action-coming-refugee-inhumanity?utm_source=tsp_website&utm_campaign=social_mobile_email&utm_medium=social_share

#saturdayPaper, #politics, #refugees, #humanity

If you haven't yet read Claire Coleman on #LandRights and Gareth Evans on the #Voice in last weekend's #SaturdayPaper, you should take the necessary 20 minutes to do so. These are important matters, particularly this week.

This week's #Books and #Writing at the #SaturdayPaper:

Fiona Wright reviews Hayley Singer's "thanatography", Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead.
Andy Jackson on Lucy Dougan's new poetry collection, Monster Field: "The voice of the poems is somehow both casual and composed."

John Martinkus on the Painter and Dockers' lead singer Paulie Stewart's autobiography All The Rage.

New #fiction from John Kinsella: Sandbagging Yeats’ tower: finding the uncaged bird

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/fiction/2023/01/21/sandbagging-yeats-tower-finding-the-uncaged-bird

Back from leave at the #SaturdayPaper with a fab issue! This week's #arts:

Nadine von Cohen swaps notes with David Sedaris

Tristen Harwood reviews Tomás Saraceno at Mona, Hobart

Isabella Trimboli on how Frances O'Connor's biopic of Emily Brontë’ reduces her life and work

Chantal Nguyen looks over the highlights of the Sydney Festival

Pixy Liao on Finnish photographer Elina Brotherus

#Culture #VisualArt #Film #Performance #Writing

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/comedy/2023/01/21/humorist-david-sedaris

Final #SaturdayPaper arts of the year:

The year's best in reviews: #Television from Sarah Krasnostein, #Music by Shaad D'Souza, #Architecture by #Naomi Stead, #Film by Clem Bastow and Christos Tsiolkas, and #VisualArt from Andy Butler/

And an absolutely delightful profile of actor Michael Sheen, on his passion for #theatre and many other things, from Romy Ash

#arts #culture

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/theatre/2022/12/17/actor-michael-sheen

Fantastic article by Barry Jones in today's #SaturdayPaper #AusRepublic

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2022/12/10/the-monarchy-and-the-constitution

#SaturdayPaper Books: Andy Jackson review Heather Rose Heather Rose's Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here
Tristen Harwood on Diana Wood Conroy and Bede Tungutalum, Tiwi Textiles
Olivia Muscat on the anthology Admissions: Voices within Mental Health

#Fiction #MentalHealth #IndigenousArt

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/books/2022/12/31/nothing-bad-ever-happens-here-memoir-loss-and-discovery

In today's #SaturdayPaper arts: Carly Findlay profiles actor Kiruna Stammell's brilliant career; Luther Uthayakumaran looks at the tropes of colonialism in Belvoir's The Jungle and the Sea; Lisa Radford reviews Barbara Hepworth's "“about nothing except love”, then and now; Fiona Murphy on Peter Knight's Shadow Phase; opera star Nadine Sierra on her favourite role; and new fiction from Katherine Brabon.

#books #opera #theatre #art #music #fiction #ShortFiction

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/film/2022/12/03/actor-kiruna-stamell

Why does a paper like the Saturday Paper, whose authors express socially progressive views and are well aware of anthropogenic climate change, still publishes all these meaty recipes? Today it’s coq au vin. It’s the reason why I don’t buy the #SaturdayPaper. For the same reason I don’t subscribe or donate to the #Guardian.
#AnimalAgriculture is a major contributor to climate change, and they know it.