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"Ronaldo has no idea how bad a look it is to have not only prepared talking points for his own manager but also to then betray his own obliviousness by sharing them himself."
Martin McKenzie-Murray on the great footballer's rapacious self-belief. trib.al/nZdFOXI
When a parent crosses international borders with their children to escape domestic violence, they are accused of abduction rather than provided with protection and support, writes Eleanor Limprecht. trib.al/AlzJFRV
In The Last Best Place on the Internet, Richard Cooke digs into Wikipedia's many interrelations and contradictions. The site is as much a community as it is a work of reference, and both its strengths and weaknesses derive from this fact. trib.al/MC7D4aN
Suzie Miller’s 'Inter Alia' has a familiar dilemma at its centre – what does a parent owe a child who’s done something unforgivable? trib.al/guiBkEo
Challenge yourself with this week's Saturday Paper quiz: trib.al/f70M9t2
A proposal to streamline the training for Australian psychologists from a master's to an undergraduate degree has the sector worried that graduates will not be ready to treat people. trib.al/vkPJyRu
Stuttgart Ballet’s season of Marcia Haydée’s The Sleeping Beauty combines athletic dexterity with dramatic storytelling, a reminder of gaps within Australia’s ballet scene, writes Chantal Nguyen. trib.al/E6AxtyR
Rather than a collection of discrete works, Justene Williams: Once We Were Mudskippers takes shape as an unstable network, a shifting kaleidoscopic world of proliferating images and screens, and the stuttering performance of self. trib.al/zch9Pz8
“When we arrive somewhere new, memories and beliefs continue travelling with us and sometimes appear in the next generation.”
Neha Kale interviews the artist behind a new large-scale exhibition as part of Task Eternal at Parramatta Powerhouse. trib.al/HFVXa3Z
Eliza reduces debates between pragmatic techno-optimism and an Asimovian belief in scientific progress to a sentimentalised humanism fighting back a philistine scientific cabal corrupted by capitalism. trib.al/eoz31nw
The Saturday Paper has been told most of the nine matters listed for stay hearings in Katherine involve Aboriginal women, many of whom are charged with domestic violence-related assaults on male partners with histories of violence. trib.al/HIGw0m9
O Tama Carey shares her recipe for mango trifle. trib.al/60tFqrT
“The uncertainty and lack of transparency only compound the suffering of families seeking redress. It is deeply disappointing that families are still waiting for an outcome.” trib.al/ZkDSmWd
The Sleeping Beauty might be shrugged off as quaint children’s entertainment. In ballet circles, however, it is one of the Big Three. trib.al/UvuP2Cy
In one sense, The Last Best Place on the Internet is an elegy for a period that is passing from view. Richard Cooke’s slightly tautologous subtitle – what histories are there but human ones? – is a wry acknowledgement that we are moving into new territory. trib.al/GjCDj5p