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Inside the bizarre, tuna patty-filled launch of Mark Latham's new cookbook

Alan Jones and Mark Latham launched their new book yesterday at an Indian restaurant to the confusion of diners, everyone else.

Rundle: Israel Folau's homophobic comments are a flashpoint for players and power

Folau's fundamentalist comments reveal some of the contradictions that are tearing apart competitive team sport around the world.

Is Channel Seven the right place for Andrew Denton's new interview show?

If you were hoping for the scintillating interviews of Denton's ABC days, you might be disappointed.

Sacred Cows: when your masterpiece is an unreadable mess

William Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury was originally published to little fanfare. There was a reason for that.

The long-term pain in cricket’s anti-siphoning spin

Seven and Foxtel have pulled a fast one on cricket fans, ducking regulations to lock two thirds of international cricket matches on a subscription service. Will will it be enough to save Foxtel's sinking subscriber base?

Tasting Australia (and Australia itself) has a 'great male chef' problem

Adelaide's much venerated Tasting Australia will open with a disproportionately small number of women chefs celebrated. Is this a symptom of a biased industry, or is the festival culpable in sustaining the sausage party?

Anne Edmonds' comedy is truly, madly, deeply Australian – and that's why it works

For comedy to work, here in this country, it must be truly Australian. It must evoke the minutiae of a time and place, be unashamedly local.

The manufactured magic of Russell Crowe's $3.7m divorce auction

Would you pay $7000 for a used, leather jockstrap? Margot Saville reports from inside the bizarre bubble of the actor's highly publicised auction.

The deplorable media misunderstandings of the Roseanne reboot

The political backlash to Roseanne, on screen and off, is playing into the hands of the network and ignoring all that we know about media.