The Saturday Paper

The Saturday Paper is a weekly newspaper from Australia that made its debut on March 1, 2014. It stands out for being available in print, online, and in a mobile-friendly format. The publication reaches audiences in major cities and key regional areas across Australia. Its reporting on current events, cultural topics, and Australian politics has received both acclaim and criticism from various media experts.

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Trump blocks G7 statement on Ukraine as Russia attacks

1 day ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Jonathan Pearlman

Ukraine: As Donald Trump attended a Group of Seven summit in Canada this week and criticised the group for expelling Russia, Moscow launched one of its heaviest attacks on Kyiv since its invasion in 2022. Despite leaving the summit a day early to deal with the Israel–Iran war, Trump’s mood among the leaders of the world’s advanced economies was relatively cordial. He finalised a free trade deal with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and signed a joint statement on the Israel–Iran war.
‘The Islamic Republic as we have known it is finished’

1 day ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Jonathan Pearlman

In 1992, shortly after he was re-elected, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin told an academic workshop in Tel Aviv that he believed the country’s greatest threat was the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran.
The year that changed the present

1 day ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Stan Grant

In 1979, I was entering my last years of school and The Clash released their landmark album London Calling. It became the soundtrack of my emerging political awareness. Its startling array of jazz, blues, rockabilly, ska, reggae, funk and disco, with a punk attitude and energy, was a cry of anguish from a generation who had lived with the Cold War fear of nuclear war. The Ice Age is coming, The Clash told us. We need to brace for meltdown.
Actor Abou Sangaré is the real deal

1 day ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Philippa Hawker

At the Cannes Film Festival last year, Abou Sangaré should have been on top of the world. He had won a best actor award for his role in L’Histoire de Souleymane (The Story of Souleymane), the gripping tale of an asylum seeker, which had been selected for the Un Certain Regard section and also took out the jury and critics’ prizes. While he was there, however, he learnt that his application for a residency permit in France had been turned down.
Fifteen minutes with Trump

2 days ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | John Hewson

High expectations had been set for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s meeting with United States President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit.
Dark Mofo: Hobart’s Disneyland of the dark arts

1 week ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Joseph Earp

By its very design, I don’t think a festival as gloriously perverse as Dark Mofo can be summed up in a single moment. But the curtain call at Joshua Serafin’s Void, a multimedia performance art piece incorporating dance, video and a pool of black goo, came pretty close. Serafin, who had just spent 40 minutes writhing naked onstage in tar-like mucus as it formed giant bubbles around his body, bowed and grinned. Still naked and coated in black, he took stock of the crowd before him.
Exclusive: PBS listings frozen over Trump’s executive order

1 week ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Jason Koutsoukis

News Industry sources reveal drug companies have stopped negotiating listings on the PBS and in some cases are considering not listing in Australia as they seek to lift profits under Trump. By Jason Koutsoukis. SHARE Copy Link Bluesky Facebook X LinkedIn Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme has been effectively frozen since May, after United States President Donald Trump issued an order to change how pharmaceutical companies price drugs.
Cerith Wyn Evans’s solo show at MCA

1 week ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Penny Craswell

Cerith Wyn Evans, dressed in a flowing purple kimono over a white shirt and black skirt, is quietly exasperated by the compliments in the introduction by Museum of Contemporary Art curator Lara Strongman. He does not want to talk about the work but around it. About how the work responds to the exhibition space. About what his work stands for. “In the face of evil, in the face of Donald Trump, we have to be kind,” he says at the media launch.
We need HECS-style loans for farmers

1 week ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | John Hewson

The recent series of floods and droughts in different parts of Australia has again raised the question of how best to deliver government assistance to those farmers and small businesses directly affected. Given the huge political capital the Albanese government has accumulated with its landslide election victory, this is a particularly timely area of reform. Debates about appropriate drought and flood relief seem never to end.
Salvage

1 week ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Jane Rawson

Jennifer Mills is one of Australia’s most innovative writers; in Josephine Rowe’s words, “a deeply empathetic genius”. Salvage is Mills’ sixth book and its speculative fiction narrative of near-future climate change and an escape to the stars builds on the environmentally and socially concerned fiction of her previous works. These include the award-winning Dyschronia, which immerses itself in the warped temporality of climate change, and The Airways, a ghost story of queer identity.