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Are you next? From mining to academia, workers face increasingly insecure conditionsIt may surprise you to hear the words from miners in Queensland bearing a striking similarity to academics in Western Australia. But here they are -
These are times of grave danger, with dissent recast as treason, racism unchained and intolerance on the march. We must take a stand before things get even worseNigel Farage’s attack on Jo Cox’s widower is a new low. Enough
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Now we're supposed to embrace clean sleeping. How tiresomeArianna Huffington and Gwyneth Paltrow are cashing in on the biggest health trend of 2017. But it’s possible to get shuteye without opening your wallet -
Stuck in a train tunnel, life got all a bit RembrandtThe jokes drained away with the air, the mood turned black, and the disembodied voice of a rail guard became our kind jailer
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Mark Olive's Australian Christmas lunch: emu eggnog and turkey with native herbs – videoIndigenous chef Mark Olive, aka The Black Olive, makes Christmas lunch with Australia’s native ingredients such as wattle seeds and warrigal greens, and eggnog using an emu egg
columnists
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Brigid DelaneyBrigid DelaneyThe jokes drained away with the air, the mood turned black, and the disembodied voice of a rail guard became our kind jailer
Stuck in a train tunnel, life got all a bit Rembrandt
cartoons
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Please enjoy these season’s greetings from Peter Dutton, Fiona the Unemployed Bettong, Ian the Climate Denialist Potato, Stiff Buttlint, Brenda the Civil Disobedience Penguin and rescue dogs, Roy and BeyonceThoughtful Christmas messages from prominent Australians, brought to you by First Dog on the Moon
Indigenous Australia
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I am living proof of the stolen generation. Trust me, the trauma is realI live today with no living culture that I can practise or pass down to my sons, writes Elaine Crombie for @IndigenousX
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Descendants of two disparate massacres on opposite sides of the world find common ground deep in the heart of Warlpiri countryThe Armenians and the Warlpiri: two genocides that sparked a pilgrimage to the outback
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Is 2016 the year our leaders are shocked into action for Indigenous kids?As Coag meets to discuss youth detention, we urge them to recognise that cohesive societies are built through stronger families not stronger prisons
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First Contact: when Indigenous Australia becomes entertainment, everyone losesStereotypes and falsehoods go uninterrogated on a magical mystery tour of black Australia
world view
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Is it just Christmas, or are you a genuinely terrible employee?If you find yourself using the festive wind-down as an excuse to wind up your employer, it might be time to stop taking liberties and get a new job
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When having the freedom to go Christmas shopping is so sweetIn 1995, independent living payments transformed everything, letting me hire a personal assistant to help me indulge my long-frustrated inner shopper
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No more excuses. It's time to change abortion laws in NSW and Queensland