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Adrian Collette endured another bruising encounter with Sarah Henderson in Senate estimates.

Arts boss Adrian Collette says Creative Australia is ‘not about moral compass’

The country’s top arts bureaucrat has insisted his organisation is not in the business of judging people’s opinions, merely the quality of their work.

  • Karl Quinn

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Then they came for our T-shirts … but why stop at Joy Division, Sussan Ley?

Rock apparel has long been designed to shock. The opposition leader, as a former punk rocker, might remember the Dead Kennedys and the Sex Pistols.

  • Michael Dwyer
Who dares to speak their mind in an environment of cancel culture?

I used tears to sway my husband. It was a snapshot of the wider gender divide

Women have been socialised to resort to emotion. Has that delivered the world wokeness and cancel culture?

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness
Trump ally and MyPillow.inc founder Mike Lindell and his LindellTV website will now report direct from the Pentagon.

New Pentagon press corps unveiled as right-wing podcasters, bloggers

A wave of non-traditional, right-wing bloggers and podcasters will now report direct from the US War Department after signing up to new media guidelines.

  • Michael Koziol
Julia Roberts as Alma in After the Hunt.

Julia Roberts’ anti-woke film feels hopelessly dated in Trump’s America

There’s nothing wrong with the film’s premise: an apparently false accusation of sexual assault on the Yale campus. But here’s why it fails.

  • Michelle Goldberg
Bari Weiss has been appointed editor-in-chief of CBS News.

Anti-woke crusader Bari Weiss appointed to run CBS News

The former NYT opinion editor and columnist has been battling “wokeness” and buddying up with billionaires. Now she’s the editor-in-chief of CBS News.

  • Jessica Testa
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A lightning rod for the culture wars: Suggestions to cut back on meat and eat more plant foods were lambasted as “woke” and “elite”.

‘Juicy target for the anti-woke agenda’: How the meat industry undermined diet advice

When a group of leading scientists and nutrition experts advised rich nations to eat less meat and more plant foods for both planetary and individual health, they faced a huge backlash. This is how they have responded in their follow-up report.

  • Agnieszka de Sousa
Late-night TV hosts

‘Blatant assault on freedom of speech’: Late-night hosts lash Kimmel axing

The comedian’s fellow late-night show hosts have made some serious points in typically hilarious fashion.

  • Chris Hook
Dozens of writers withdrew from the Bendigo Writers Festival.

The walkout of writers shows how promiscuous the politics of safety can be

Gaza has led lots of people to adopt principles they had previously opposed. Free speech and safetyism have been swapped like trading cards.

  • Waleed Aly
Far-right Canadian YouTuber Lauren Southern says she is “merely a conservative”.

A MAGA influencer tried to be a tradwife in Australia. It almost broke her

Lauren Southern moved with her husband from Canada, where she’d grown up, to Australia where, she says, she lived in near-total isolation.

  • Michelle Goldberg