The fragility of abortion rights in Australia
Oct 26, 2024 · About 18 months ago, Monique*, a 27-year-old woman based in Melbourne’s inner north, attempted to terminate a pregnancy. She was referred by her general practitioner to the Royal Women’s Hospital in Parkville, Australia’s oldest specialist women’s hospital, which boasts a full range of maternity, gynaecology, neonatal care and women’s health services.
Tim Winton’s dystopian Juice a must-read masterpiece
Oct 2, 2024 · Just when you think four-time Miles Franklin Literary Award-winner Tim Winton can’t write a better novel, he does. In Juice, Winton – known and loved for writing about people who could live next door, as in Cloudstreet (1991) – shifts to a new genre: near-future fiction. The result can be read as a warning to a world on the brink of …
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The post-Intervention plight of Alice Springs
Oct 12, 2024 · For almost a decade, The Saturday Paper has published Australia’s leading writers and thinkers. We have pursued stories that are ignored elsewhere, covering them with sensitivity and depth. We have done this on refugee policy, on government integrity, on robo-debt, on aged care, on climate change, on the pandemic.
This is how to close the gap | The Saturday Paper
Oct 5, 2024 · Governments are supposed to be all about accountability. Yet the “gap” widens each year, and the statistics provide stark evidence of this failure. Of child suicides – four times higher among Indigenous than non-Indigenous children. Of child removals – 11 times higher. Incarceration of children, 24 times higher. And on it goes.
The Great Divide: Alan Kohler’s rock-solid analysis on the …
Sep 30, 2024 · I reached adulthood the moment housing prices bolted. Now ownership is an uncomfortable subject that silently divides my peer group between those who are mortgaged to the hilt and many who have given up on home ownership entirely. In The Great Divide, an expansion of his 2023 Quarterly Essay, Alan Kohler meticulously sorts through the economics and historical roots of every Australian’s ...
The Burrow - The Saturday Paper
Oct 19, 2024 · If you understand something well, you can explain it simply. Melanie Cheng understands ordinary people – their love, their quiet desperation, their hope – and the restrained, elegant prose of The Burrow is testament to this. The novel is slim and each word is carefully chosen. It feels as if every sentence is a distillation.
Quiz - The Saturday Paper
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The Deal - The Saturday Paper
Oct 12, 2024 · For almost a decade, The Saturday Paper has published Australia’s leading writers and thinkers. We have pursued stories that are ignored elsewhere, covering them with sensitivity and depth. We have done this on refugee policy, on government integrity, on robo-debt, on aged care, on climate change, on the pandemic.
Santos faces greenwash charge | The Saturday Paper
Nov 9, 2024 · For almost a decade, The Saturday Paper has published Australia’s leading writers and thinkers. We have pursued stories that are ignored elsewhere, covering them with sensitivity and depth. We have done this on refugee policy, on government integrity, on robo-debt, on aged care, on climate change, on the pandemic.