POLITICS
The United Arab Emirates has confirmed its departure from the world's most dramatic petroleum club, leaving OPEC to manage an unprecedented energy crisis without one of its more competent members.
REVIEWS
Apple's spy drama returns with another season of institutional rot, terrible people doing competent work, and a leading man who looks like he hasn't slept since 1987.
REVIEWS
HBO's addiction drama returns with Zendaya now in her mid-20s, better cinematography than narrative momentum, and a three-year gap nobody asked for.
SPORT
Round 1 has delivered the usual existential crises, with Penrith looking mortal, Sydney in its traditional spiral, and a Tigers victory that has somehow made the entire city behave oddly.
BUSINESS
The Reserve Bank will release inflation data gathered from a theoretical collection of goods that do not physically exist, and this will, somehow, determine whether you can afford your home.
CULTURE
A Brisbane university publisher has pulped an entire print run of an Indigenous author's picture book, citing board tensions rather than the actual story.