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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‘I get bored very easily’: Gillian Cosgriff on being a performance all-rounder

1 week ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Daniel Herborn

Profile A polymath of the stage, Gillian Cosgriff brings her new show to the upcoming Adelaide Cabaret Festival, steering away from topicality to interactive games. By Daniel Herborn. SHARE Copy Link Bluesky Facebook X LinkedIn Raised in a boisterous extended family with four siblings and 20 aunts and uncles, Gillian Cosgriff thought nothing of attending gatherings where each household would sing a song or perform a skit.
Alix Higgins and allegations of cultural appropriation

1 week ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Lucianne Tonti

The show notes left on each seat at Alix Higgins’s Australian Fashion Week runway in Sydney’s Carriageworks this month read: “Thank you to Ann Shoebridge for the wonderful crowns in silk, they make mefeel like I am 10 years old, which was sort of the point.”The crowns in question were colourful fabric headbands some of the models wore across their foreheads, with several feather-shaped spikes sticking up into the air.
The Ley interview: ‘I don’t mind what people think of me’

1 week ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Karen Barlow

News EXCLUSIVE: The leader of the opposition has reunited the Coalition in her first weeks and now sets about the mammoth task of reconnecting to the electorate. By Karen Barlow. SHARE Copy Link Bluesky Facebook X LinkedIn Sussan Ley is on the phone from her home in Albury. She sounds upbeat. She is more expansive than usual. She’s not in a rush to finish, thinking about each answer. She knows the task in front of her is enormous, but she does not seem daunted.
How to fix university funding

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

Now the election is finally over and the parties and candidates have settled down to their new realities, national priorities must be afforded their proper place. The election campaign focused too much on short-term offerings for voters – there was little discussion of what the respective leaders wanted our country to be in the coming decades.
The spoils of defeat

1 week ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Paul Bongiorno

SHARE Copy Link Bluesky Facebook X LinkedIn In politics, it is easy to misread a victory or a loss. It is only the subsequent election that can prove whether that judgement was correct or not. This reality was further complicated in this election by the fact it came so soon after a referendum with a very different outcome. The way both major parties interpreted the majority “No” vote in the 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum had a significant bearing on this campaign.
Liberals bow to Nationals’ demands

1 week ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Denham Sadler

The 400km Walk for Truth began in the Victorian town of Portland on Sunday, as the state’s truth commission prepares to hand down its final report. First Nations and non-Indigenous people will walk from Portland, the site of Victoria’s first recorded massacre, to Parliament House across the next 25 days, with Yoorrook Justice Commission deputy chair Travis Lovett to bring attention to its work (The Age).
Exclusive: How Abbott and Credlin control the Liberals

2 weeks ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Jason Koutsoukis

Tony Abbott was en route to Hungary to address a think tank backed by Viktor Orbán’s right-wing government when he made the call: he wanted Northern Territory Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price brought into the Liberal Party fold. It was May 8, just days after the Coalition’s devastating election loss.
What my country will never be

2 weeks ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Stan Grant

I have just returned from a writers’ festival in Auckland and I am still processing the experience. I was humbled to be among several writers to deliver the opening night address. Each of us was tasked with riffing on the theme “The moment I knew”. There were some lovely reflections, some funny or heartening. Others were terribly sad. Each writer approached it with honesty and generosity. I had something in mind that I thought was interesting – amusing, if on the safe side – but this required more.
Murray Watt’s first task as environment minister

2 weeks ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Mike Seccombe

News Murray Watt, known for his effectiveness, is confident he can deliver long-delayed environmental reform. His first and most consequential task is the ‘carbon bomb’ project awaiting approval. By Mike Seccombe. SHARE Copy Link Bluesky Facebook X LinkedIn Murray Watt’s appointment as environment minister gives Kelly O’Shanassy a measure of hope.
The Occupant

2 weeks ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Fenella Souter

It took a few days for Martha to notice the little silver hatchback. People were always leaving their cars or trailers in the dead-end beside the small reserve, sometimes for weeks, or dumping rubbish in the small hours of the morning, brazen under cover of darkness. Martha, who lived opposite, would wake to see a cheap broken cupboard or a pile of worn tyres or an old fan, say, lying like a silvery corpse in the grass.