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Razer: we finally reached peak Q&A

This week's Q&A episode on marriage equality was billed as a “debate” and was boiled down to its noisome essence. Which is to say, it said things that have been already said and said.

Manus messenger: podcasting blurred memories from an island prison

Aziz has been telling me about his life and reporting his experiences in the detention centre. From these fragments, we’ve compiled a podcast, The Messenger, writes freelance journalist Michael Green.

EXCLUSIVE: Stefanovic's private diary reveals how smelly some of his guests are

Since his mate Lisa left, things haven't been easy for Karl Stefanovic, the lost boy of morning television.

Tony Birch says Mango poem controversy exposes student entitlement

In the aftermath of HSC students' vilification of poet Ellen van Neerven, we speak to author and academic Tony Birch about education, poetry, and online abuse.

Channel Nine walked it home last night, amidst the fallout from Lisa Wilkinson's defection.

Glenn Dyer's TV Ratings

Channel Nine walked it home last night, amidst the fallout from Lisa Wilkinson's defection.

Rundle: Weinstein's ruin epitomises how we do politics now

Paradoxically, the one industry that won't be reformed is Hollywood.

Keane: the doomed quest for meaning in Twin Peaks

If there's meaning in Twin Peaks: The Return, it lies in the meaninglessness of existence, and how we can best cope with it.

Razer: the three kinds of therapy we self-apply to make sense of this world

The first two are essentially quick-fix drugs or peppy self-help. Only the third has the power to heal and instruct over the long term.

Sophie Monk continues to charm viewers, while the ABC did well with its Wednesday night line-up

Glenn Dyer's TV Ratings

Sophie Monk continues to charm viewers, while the ABC did well with its Wednesday night line-up

Political dark horse David Leyonhjelm launches his book for freedom-lovers

David Leyonhjelm may have accidentally been elected, but that doesn't mean he can't use his platform to talk about cats (and other notes from the launch of Freedom's Salesman)