His outsider upbringing means Tony Ayres, the brains behind television series such as The Slap, Nowhere Boys and an upcoming drama based on Erin Patterson, is drawn to complex characters.

Archie Moore’s masterpiece kith and kin – the first Australian work to receive a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale – is now an unmissable display at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art.

Madeleine Gray distils the zeitgeist in her characters and stories. They entertain in a way that makes middle-aged Millennials like myself devour them in a single bed-rotting weekend. I was thrilled when I saw she had followed up her debut novel, Green Dot, with Chosen Family.

In 1975, declared International Women’s Year by the United Nations, the Australian media were having a field day with feminism. Evan Williams, then press secretary to prime minister Gough Whitlam, was called in to address the Women and Politics Conference in Canberra, held just a few weeks after the UN’s gigantic Mexico City conference, which was dubbed “the greatest consciousness-raising event in history” that year.

McGilligan’s 1999, warts’n’all Clint: The Life and Legend. The now 95-year-old actor-director officially authorised the former and sued the latter. Writing biographies of the living can be a risky business.

ANALYSIS: Australia’s new treaty appears to seal a commitment to a close strategic relationship with PNG and to its defence, but that’s not what the deal will deliver.

Of all the things Scott Morrison does not understand, and the list is long and often embarrassing, somewhat in the shape of his prime ministership, China would rate very close to the top.

Labor’s reforms to freedom of information laws are opposed by every public submission made to the Senate, with the government’s record on secrecy worse than Scott Morrison’s.

A fracturing of the Liberal right faction has created chaos within the party, leading to what MPs have called ‘incredible ... damage’ to the Coalition’s reputation and prospects.

The Albanese government has already approved 31 fossil fuel projects, and more than that are waiting, even as renewables overtake coal as the top source of electricity.

Archie Moore’s masterpiece kith and kin – the first Australian work to receive a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale – is now an unmissable display at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art.

ANALYSIS: Australia’s new treaty appears to seal a commitment to a close strategic relationship with PNG and to its defence, but that’s not what the deal will deliver.