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Debate Club: can pop culture be a force for feminist good?

Will the gradual crawl towards representation in pop culture continue in 2018, or is the battle meaningless in the pursuit of profit? Helen Razer and Lauren Rosewarne offer points for both sides.

Inside the oft-derided, colourful world of body language experts

Yes, body language experts know exactly how they are perceived.

'The UN has to be better, and I think it is struggling': Helen Clark

Two years after losing the race for secretary-general, the former New Zealand prime minister says the UN needs an "injection of sheer political reality".

How a US judge decided 'artistic expression' was a legitimate defence of discrimination

A recent ruling out of the US has raised big questions about discrimination and the first amendment, but it also says a lot about our views on the nature of work.

The great, undervalued fight of socialist-feminist Zelda D'Aprano

The secret history of much Australian progress was that Communism and Trotskyism are at its centre. With Zelda, the two sides of the hyphen "socialist-feminist" were equally weighted.

Sacred Cows: the case against Cloudstreet

Is Tim Winton's blockbuster novel really as good as Australian culture collectively remembers?

Leyonhjelm’s pottymouth smacks of political impotence

Australia has a long tradition of parliamentary vulgarity, but Senator Leyonhjelm might be the first to regularly turn it back on the voters.

Dark outlooks on Tassie's Dark and Dangerous Thoughts Festival?

David Walsh's Museum of Old and New Art conglomerate is expanding in Hobart, but decidedly not to Launceston.

Clive Hamilton book cover gets its own mini-controversy

The cover of last week's Saturday Age Insight section took more than a little inspiration from a book designer's work, the paper has admitted.

The political logic of Clive Palmer's online nonsense

Palmer’s online posts aren’t just bizarre for bizarre’s sake. They serve to rebuild his image of a potential populist leader — and they're working.