3+ day, 23+ hour ago  (795+ words) Bodies lined the streets of a marginalised community after one of Brazil's deadliest police operations. More than 120 people, the majority of them young Black men and boys, were killed during raids on two favelas in Rio de Janeiro. About 2500 police…...

3+ week, 5+ hour ago  (646+ words) The challenges that younger people experience buying a house have played out on the big screen in a feature film that pulls the curtain back on intergenerational wealth and the national housing crisis. Birthright, directed by award-winning Australian writer and…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (1010+ words) Australia has been in the grip of housing crisis for years. Home ownership is simply beyond the reach of many, rent is surging, and homelessness continues rising. It seems likely the Treasurer Jim Chalmers will implement changes to the 50 per…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (67+ words) Rosalie Ham. Allen & Unwin. $34. 99. Martha Ackmann. St Martin's Press. $36. 99. Iain Campbell, Charley Hesse, Phil Gregory. Princeton University Press. $55. Patricia A. O'Brien. Allen & Unwin. $36. 99. Fiona Wright. Ultimo Press. $34. 99. Anna Maynard. Echo. $34. 99. Love books? Us too! For more reads and recommendations, browse our…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (359+ words) The Canberra Times Concrete Captions: Texting Rights shows how texting and social media empower Deaf and disability culture, shift attitudes about burdens, and challenge outdated views. During the pandemic, a renaissance of collective action, mutual aid, and new ways of…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1539+ words) The politicians who passed the hate speech law and the police who are enforcing it should hang their heads in shame at their repressive and anti-democratic behaviour ("Police raid Canberra bar over posters", February 20). What an extraordinarily bad law. An…...