I am not paying American war taxes this year. Will you join me? | Clara Vondrich
War tax resistance has a venerable tradition dating back to days before the US was even born. It’s time to revive this tradition More than $20bn. That’s roughly the cost…
Meloni’s referendum defeat shows the cost of the Trump factor | Riccardo Alcaro
The Italian PM has won plaudits for her tightrope-walking pragmatism. But have voters now had enough? Giorgia Meloni has a long history of defying expectations. She holds the record as…
Netanyahu claims that victory over Iran would bring peace to Israel. He should look closer to home | Dahlia Scheindlin
As Israelis grow weary of sheltering from missile attacks, their prime minister is using the war to distract from the Palestinian issue An opinion poll conducted in Israel two weeks…
William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet review – Baz Luhrmann’s joyful tragedy is still extravagantly full of life
The 1990s love tragedy starring a young Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes is a tonic and a delight Thirty years ago, Baz Luhrmann reinvented Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as a…
Dolphins, stingers and ‘salt tongue’: an epic ocean swim around New Zealand’s east coast
Jono Ridler has battled loneliness and fatigue as he aims to break the record for the longest unassisted staged swim – and raise awareness about fragile marine life First he…
Will this ‘Doritos-inspired’ hot cross bun cause some spicy full-scale anarchy – or is it merely weird-smelling clickbait?
As Easter rolls around once more, more and more companies are putting out novelty pastries. Alyx Gorman explains the authenticity bunfight to Julia Hollingsworth Get our weekend culture and lifestyle…
AFL scratching its head on decline in Indigenous participation as weight of history takes toll | Sean Gorman
The league, clubs and players’ union need to be more consolidated on why the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men’s players has dropped I write this having come…
A Far-flung Life by ML Stedman review – a masterful examination of loss
In her follow-up to The Light Between Oceans, the Western Australian author follows generations of a farming family as they weather calamity and change Moral ambiguity was the eddying undercurrent…
Finnish MP convicted for saying homosexuality is ‘developmental disorder’
Christian Democrat Päivi Räsänen, who was fined €1,800, was supported by conservative US group Alliance Defending Freedom A Finnish member of parliament has been found guilty by the country’s supreme…
Sperm get lost in space, Australian research into microgravity impacts suggests
Study into how fertilisation could work in space finds sperm may get disorientated when trying to find an egg Sperm in space are likely to get disoriented and lost while…