Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales
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Dear readers, at the end of another hectic news week I am grateful to Dave Mustaine’s “let there be shred!” declaration for helping take the edge off. But back to the news – and with all due respect to the Coalition implosion and Trump’s Greenland ambitions – the story that no one could get enough of kicks off this week’s selection.