George Orwell
Inequality, not immigration, behind cost-of-living crisis
Negative gearing and franking credits are more to blame for high house prices.
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- Trump's America
A deep dive into the time of Trumpian magical realism
“What will fiction be like in the Trump era?” one writer wondered eight years ago. Now we have the answer: not as fanciful as reality.
- Nikki Barrowclough
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- Censorship
Reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death highlights hypocrisy of the left
After years of weaponising hate speech laws to censor right-wing opinion, it’s too late now for the left to complain when their ideological enemies return the favour.
- George Brandis
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- Joseph Stalin
Animal Farm has turned 80, but we still don’t know who wrote the best line
George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a crucial book for understanding rising authoritarianism. We need it more than ever.
- Anna Funder
‘Dystopia come to life’: How George Orwell wrote the book on Trump’s America
The dire predictions of Orwell’s classic novel, 1984, are becoming a disturbing reality 75 years later.
- Matthew Purdy
Private schools are major financial players. Why aren’t they paying council rates?
Top fee-paying schools in North Sydney are significant users of local infrastructure. The time for them to be exempted from council rates has long gone.
One hundred years since his death, this author is a must-read more than ever
Indeed, posterity has paid Kafka the greatest tribute a writer can receive. His name has become an adjective.
- David Free
Unanswered questions dog Dutton’s nuclear dream
The Nuclear Energy Institute estimates that one nuclear reactor needs billions of litres of water per year for cooling, and “all of this water requires filtering somehow”. As nuclear reactors need to be operational 24/7 and can’t be switched on and off at short notice to cover peak demand times, where does Dutton suggest this water will come from for his chosen sites?
- Opinion
- Property downsizing
‘Rid your life of anything that does not spark joy’. I’m starting with Marie Kondo
KonMari™ has a unifying rule: rid your life of anything that does not “spark joy”. I’m starting with Marie Kondo.
- Malcolm Knox
London’s famed Evening Standard to end daily print edition after 200 years
The London newspaper, which has angered dictators and shaped the legacy of political leaders, says the change is driven by better Wi-Fi on the Tube and a shift to working from home.
- Rob Harris