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Debate over NDIS budget ignores the cost of workforce exclusion
While arguments continue over the value of the NDIS, deficit-based stereotypes for people with disability are quietly impacting our economy
Arts & Culture
Opinion
Australia's arts sector needs more than words to survive
Australian artists are struggling. To support those who tell Australian stories, we need to go beyond the government’s Revive policy
Arts & Culture
Research
How Pasifika communities are reconnecting with their past in Australian museums
When a Samoan ethnomusicologist visited Melbourne's Grainger Museum as a music student, she found objects her community had no idea were there. Now she's changing that
Arts & Culture
Opinion
What The Devil Wears Prada 2 says about the state of print media
In 2006, Runway magazine was the place everyone wanted to be. Twenty years on, the fictional fashion media giant is at crossroads – but just how close to reality is Miranda Priestly’s situation?
Politics & Society
Research
A cut, a colour and the burden of care work
Hair and beauty salons are described as spaces of self-care. But when people share more with their hairdresser than their therapist, who is really doing the care work?
Politics & Society
Analysis
AI propaganda memes are the unexpected frontline of Trump's war with Iran
As Iran floods social media with AI-generated Lego memes mocking Trump, it's a sign that a new propaganda war is rewriting the rules of truth itself
Arts & Culture
Opinion
The influencers with millions of followers who don't actually exist
They have lucrative brand deals and strong political opinions. They’re also not real. Behind the scenes, a handful of tech companies are rewriting the rules of global culture
Politics & Society
Analysis
The Australia-EU trade deal runs deeper than tariffs
After a decade of negotiations, Australia and the EU have finally struck a deal. But beyond the tariffs lies something more consequential – a quiet reshaping of democratic alignment in an unstable world
Arts & Culture
Opinion
Have ballet and opera actually benefited from a Chalamet Effect?
Timothée Chalamet called opera and ballet irrelevant. The industries clapped back, tickets sold – but now comes the harder task of keeping those audiences