Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales
op of the weekend to you all. As you read this I’m road tripping to remote Queensland, which means you’ll be in the safe hands of Imogen Dewey for the next fortnight of great reads. So I’ll temporarily sign off with some matters of indulgence topping and tailing this list: dance music and debunking absolute nonsense.Tom Nash: ‘I genuinely regard having a disability as an advantage in many ways.
Elena Kostyuchenko’s reporting on the invasion of Ukraine led to an assassination order being issued.Elena Kostyuchenko crossed the Ukraine border on 24 February last year to report on Russia’s invasion. A month later the independent Russian newspaper she’d called home for 17 years was shut down by state censors.
Determined to cover the assault on Mariupol, she pressed on. Until she learned that the Chechen fighters manning the checkpoints knew she was coming. “They’re not planning to hold you,” a colleague told Kostyuchenko.Escape from Ukraine. Lice, mumps and PTSD. A warning never to return to Russia. And a potential poisoning in Munich.Research has found pet cats in Australia kill up to 50 times more animals per square kilometre in urban areas than feral cats kill in natural environments.
“Laurie is the fifth cat I’ve lived with and the first to be an indoor-only cat. She turns 14 next month. She has never been injured. I have never been woken by the awful howl of a cat fight” – Calla on why cats should be kept indoors for the sake of cats.
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