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Mark Knight is our best tabloid cartoonist. Is his Serena Williams drawing racist?

  • Written by: Robert Phiddian, Professor of English, Flinders University
Mark Knight is our best tabloid cartoonist. Is his Serena Williams drawing racist?Serena Williams challenges umpire Carlos Ramos during the women's final of the 2018 US Open Tennis. JASON SZENES

Is the Mark Knight cartoon of Serena Williams racist? It depends on where you sit.

Let me start with three opinions:

I have long thought Mark Knight the best and most intelligent tabloid cartoonist in Australia.

I find it inconceivable that...

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Dutton accuses Quaedvlieg of "grooming" a young woman, in new angry clash

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has launched an extraordinary fresh personal attack on the former head of the Australian Border Force, Roman Quaedvlieg, accusing him of “grooming” a woman 30 years his junior and of being the opposition’s “Godwin Grech”.

Under opposition questioning in parliament, Dutton sheeted home...

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lessons from the 2018 US Open tennis

  • Written by: Peter Terry, Professor of Psychology, University of Southern Queensland

Judging by the fallout from Sunday’s dramatic spat between Serena Williams and umpire Carlos Ramos during the women’s final of the US Open, it is clear that the greatest female player of all time divides opinion like few others.

Williams appeared to interpret the three code violations meted out by the umpire as sexism by Ramos and an...

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Labor retains big Newspoll lead; savage anti-Liberal swing in Wagga Wagga; Wentworth is tied

  • Written by: Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Labor retains big Newspoll lead; savage anti-Liberal swing in Wagga Wagga; Wentworth is tiedThe latest polls show Morrison is relatively popular, but the Coalition is trailing Labor badly on two-party preferred.AAP/Mick Tsikas

This week’s Newspoll, conducted September 6-9 from a sample of 1,650 gave Labor a second consecutive landslide 56-44 lead. Primary votes were 42% Labor (up one), 34% Coalition (up one), 10% Greens (steady)...

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