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Judy Blume is the patron saint of teen girl readers – so why did a man write her biography?

I’m Generation X, so of course I was raised by Judy Blume, the patron saint of teen girl readers from the 1970s on, with her frank, funny realist novels on everything from first periods to first sexual encounters.

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Strike threat remains as ABC staff return to work

ABC staff are leaving the door open to more strikes, as union figures say their message about job security and wages is not getting through to management.

AAP

‘I didn’t want to break it’: Linton Besser on the doubts and dilemmas in his first year presenting Media Watch

Besser won a Walkley award for reporting that included investigating the ABC chair, but says there is still ‘lots of awkwardness’ in reporting on other journalists

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Over 100 issues, Quarterly Essay has generated news, controversy – and the occasional explosive scene

Perhaps the most profane opening paragraph in the history of Australian journalism can be found in one of Black Inc.’s avowedly highbrow Quarterly Essays. “Those Chinese fuckers are trying to rat-fuck us,” Kevin Rudd is quoted as saying, in David Marr’s June 2010 edition of the essay series. Profane, yes,…

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‘I have to do it’: Why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China

In 2020, after spending half his life in the US, Song-Chun Zhu took a one-way ticket to China. Now he might hold the key to who wins the global AI race

The Guardian - UK

Donald Trump is not the first politician to swear in public. Here are six more infamous expletives

From a frustrated Australian prime minister to ‘the most unparliamentary of language’ in Irish politics

The Guardian - AU

David Marr follows Sam Maiden to the exit after Honi Soit withdraws speaking invitation

After a flattering invite to its student journalism conference, the University of Sydney newspaper changed its tune. Plus: Michael Stutchbury’s new gig

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David Marr to replace Phillip Adams as host of ABC radio’s Late Night Live after three decades

Adams, 84, will retire from national broadcaster in late June due to poor health

The Guardian - AU

Call for War Memorial to mark First Nations history

Officially recognising the frontier conflicts could facilitate truth-telling and help the nation come to terms with its bloody history, an author says.

AAP

David Marr reveals Hunter connection to Australia's darkest hours at Newcastle Writers Festival

David Marr speaks on confronting the true history of Australia.

Newcastle Herald

Morning Mail: Netanyahu vows to ‘change the Middle East’, Noel Pearson’s fears for no vote, power cost relief

Indigenous leader says failure means ‘middle path’ to reconciliation will be gone, and falling wholesale prices expected to deliver cheaper electricity

The Guardian - AU

'I can't argue away the shame': frontier violence and family history converge in David Marr's harrowing and important new book

Cultural capital is a rare and precious commodity. It is earned by doing – with wit, rigour and imagination. Being born to privilege may help in its accumulation, but that is not sufficient. These days, especially, privilege can be an impediment.

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Patrick White was the first Australian writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature – 50 years later, is he still being read?

Did you know that 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of Patrick White winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Australian writer to be so honoured?

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‘Ballsy’, ‘very funny’, ‘read in one sitting’: the best Australian books out in October

Each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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Friday essay: homosexuality was still illegal when Frank Moorhouse started writing – but it was there from his earliest fiction

Frank Moorhouse had been having sex with men since the age of 17 but did not openly identify as gay or bisexual.

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Kyrgios out of Australian Open; traveller fined $3,300 for cold cuts; and UK protest crackdown

World no. 21 Nick Kyrgios has been forced to bow out citing a knee injury and says he is ‘devastated’

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: Australian among dead in Himalayan plane crash, insulation call for hot rentals, Australian Open begins

An Australian is among at least 68 people who died in Nepal’s deadliest plane crash in decades.

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Cardinal George Pell, Australia’s most powerful Catholic, who was dogged by scandal – obituary

Cardinal was acquitted on appeal of child sexual abuse charges but remained tarnished by his response to paedophile priests over decades

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Off-duty Glasgow cop stops petrol can thug burning down west end restaurant

Sergeant David Marr has been hailed a hero after throwing himself at the yob who entered the Ashoka in Ashton Lane clutching fuel and a lit cigarette and told diners and staff he was going to burn the place down.

Daily Record

Off-duty cop compared to Die Hard hero after stopping thug from burning down Glasgow restaurant

Sergeant David Marr, 42, dealt with the thug and then sat back down to finish his meal.

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