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13 people who fascinated us in 2025

Here are 13 Good Weekend magazine profiles of fascinating people from the worlds of politics, science and the arts.

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Former Labor senator Graham Richardson, back when he had hair.

How Graham Richardson got a Liberal MP’s high school debating team banned

The late Labor senator’s intervention set a future star on a path towards a career with the Liberal Party.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
For all the angst over right-wing pressure from the likes of Donald Trump, the real power in London and Canberra lies with Labor and Labour.

A Trump doco has plunged the BBC into crisis. The critics have a point

Public broadcasters like the ABC and BBC are under huge pressure from the political right, but they won’t survive by refusing to admit mistakes.

  • Jonathan Holmes

Ita Buttrose keeps receipts - but only when it suits

The biggest shock in the former ABC chair’s new memoir is what she leaves out - there’s no tea here on the Antoinette Lattouf case.

  • Jenna Price
Ita Buttrose.

Never in her wildest dreams did Ita imagine her career would go the way it did

Now 83 and slowed only by her declining mobility, Ita Buttrose remains as sharp and opinionated as ever as she reflects on her six decades in the media.

  • Greg Callaghan

The October 25 Edition

Ita Buttrose on her career, feminism and the ABC | Jacinda Ardern’s new life | The quiet kingmaker | Spring racing fashion | Blanche d’Alpuget | Briggs

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Antoinette Lattouf after the Federal Court’s decision on Wednesday.

Judge reveals ABC’s penalty in Antoinette Lattouf unlawful sacking case

The six-figure sum is in addition to the $70,000 compensation the broadcaster has already been ordered to pay.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
Antoinette Lattouf arrives at the Federal Court in Sydney on Wednesday.

Lattouf seeks up to $350,000 as penalty from ABC after court win

The penalty is in addition to $70,000 in compensation the ABC has been ordered to pay Antoinette Lattouf for unlawfully sacking her to “appease … pro-Israel lobbyists”.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
Antoinette Lattouf addresses the media outside Federal Court in February.

Legal bid against Herald and Age in Lattouf case fails

The Federal Court heard a bid by a group of pro-Israel lobbyists to have The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age punished for contempt of court.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
The books we’re excited to read in the second half of 2025.

Thirty books we’ll be talking about for the rest of 2025

Clear your shelves. Here’s the fiction and non-fiction you can look forward to reading for the rest of the year.

  • Melanie Kembrey