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Many of Australia's most prominent queer venues and businesses have faced escalating censorship and disruptive moderation from Meta, often with little opportunity for recourse or human review. trib.al/t71osSR

As the decline in home prices makes increasingly shrill headlines around the country, Clare O’Neil has begun to do what the government long seemed at pains to avoid: she is owning Labor’s progress in cooling the market. trib.al/NuIIsDA

Will a special duty on Chinese windows and doors push up construction costs and slow the building of new homes? trib.al/tcmFbpE

Based on their shared thematic interests, the pairing of Kazuo Ishiguro and Taika Waititi appeared promising. The problem with Klara and the Sun is that Waititi neither makes good on Ishiguro’s vision nor develops a compelling one of his own. trib.al/SgWhGXq

“What happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic. Changes that we see happening with permafrost or frozen ground ... actually themselves influence the weather we experience down here.” trib.al/LVxYaCt

The much anticipated release of the uncensored version of Ken Russell’s The Devils reveals the shallowness of his lurid extravagances, writes Christos Tsiolkas. trib.al/Hym02cN

Since Oceania Glass shut its doors last year, Australia no longer produces basic glass, so “manufacturers” of windows and doors are better described as processors of imported goods. trib.al/9iFvkEE

It’s one thing to encourage folks to move on from an established set of facts; it’s quite another to shoo them away from long disguised ones. If we were all in agreement on what it was we were moving on from, then perhaps we might have done so by now. trib.al/hxhP4qH

As the Australian Open booms, the quest to find Australia’s next homegrown superstar is proving to be a challenging business. trib.al/EhGO0Bv

Writer and showrunner Zoe Kazan's aliveness to the spirit of what Steinbeck was trying to do, as well as to the mistakes he made in the impossible task of doing it perfectly, allowed her to make subtle but significant course corrections. trib.al/RODKtGw

"What we were all asked to move on from – and still are – was almost certainly a cauterised scandal," writes Martin McKenzie-Murray. "Something conveniently and deceptively narrowed to help mitigate the public relations disaster." trib.al/9wqlRZH

South Asian students have been caught in the crossfire of Australian immigration politics, with many deferring their studies or looking elsewhere, with implications for universities and for the health and education workforces. trib.al/DzE6n9c

Editorial: It would be nice to believe that this was the end of Trump’s style of politics. The real reason is more base. It is the reason that shapes all politics: economics. It was cost of living and inflation. It was fuel prices. trib.al/fApCqVK

In recent months, many Australian LGBTQIA+ businesses have felt the arbitrariness of the moderation of their Meta accounts. trib.al/ud1xlXx

“Ice floes persist in the Arctic year round. We now wonder, though, how much will we see? How many Chinese, Russian and other commercial boats? Military vessels? Are the seas quiet or teeming with whales?” Bruce Wolpe on a trip through the thawing north. trib.al/nsoCJ2t

Labor’s migration changes will deter foreign students who can no longer apply for family visas and make it harder to fill more than 150,000 vacancies looming in the care sectors. trib.al/qzoQa6T

What Khawaja is telling us is that "sandpapergate" amounted to a very long, insulting and collectively embroidered lie – the weight of which was unfairly borne by Smith, Bancroft and Warner, not least the latter. | Martin McKenzie-Murray trib.al/PrbHmsw

Housing minister Clare O’Neil is candid that Australians are “yearning for change,” and more must be done. There are, she says, “hugely important systems in our country, like housing, that are broken.” trib.al/2xfvccx

The Victorian education department’s Schools Mental Health Fund and Menu unit has conceded there is “increasing evidence highlighting the risk of universal programs to a small cohort of students”. trib.al/tWEXep4

“The public inquiry into AUKUS has been a community-driven endeavour about a deal so compromised and prone to failure that a national conversation about what could be done was urgently needed,” writes Peter Garrett. trib.al/hRU2zpk