Where is the nation's spine?
Lattouf delivers a eulogy for the spine - an increasingly endangered structure that's meant to hold us upright when powerful interests want us bent. It's also a love letter to the vertebrae that refuse to change shape.
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Who gets to be a victim?
When an 'unexpected' victim is killed — a white person, for example — what usually follows is an outpouring of grief and media coverage. Otten the two go hand in hand. When a black and/or brown people is killed, the reaction often differs.
Ette-Itorial: Dear PM: social media helped me survive small-town isolation. Your ban traps others there
Social media gave me language I didn’t have. It gave me peers who shared similar paths. It also gave me a place to say, “This is who I am and what I need,” at a time when saying that offline felt loaded with risk.
Opinion: Pauline Hanson Stays Relevant Because the Media Makes Sure of It
'Pauline Hanson and what she represents have been a spectre looming over me not just throughout my entire career, but also many life milestones and memories.'
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Ettention Please: Stories that didn’t get enough — if any! — coverage this week
A mayor doxxing a political rival, a DJ being linked to terrorism and a takedown of Labor's NDIS cuts.
Ette's Friday Book Club: April Edition
This month we're spotlighting a buoyant, intimate memoir that seamlessly fuses history and biography and a disarmingly sincere novel that may best be understood backwards.
