Julia Baird
Julia Baird is a journalist, author and regular columnist. Her latest book is Bright Shining: how grace changes everything.
- Opinion
- Gender equality
Gilead rising: In Trump’s America, misogyny has found a powerful toehold
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has endorsed a Christian pastor who wrote that “unsubmissive” women are a “truly destructive force”. They’re now saying the quiet bit out loud.
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- Opinion
- Trump's America
Good jeans? Why JD Vance is right about Sydney Sweeney
The worlds of politics, showbiz and business have converged over a jeans advertisement that’s sparked accusations of white supremacism. Only in America.
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- Opinion
- Web culture
Why Mountainhead’s ‘tech bro’ satire rings eerily true
A new movie from the creator of hit series Succession has shown us what happens when AI and social media are unregulated.
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- Opinion
- Trump's America
Trump has declared war on Harvard, but there are degrees of concern in Australia
We cannot be naive about how Donald Trump’s full-blooded assault on America’s finest universities will affect us.
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- Opinion
- Apps
When does tracking become stalking? Tell your kids. There’s one key warning sign
For better or worse, young people live in a world of surveillance. The best we can do as parents is to make sure they know how to identify shifts in behaviour.
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- Opinion
- Women in Leadership
Politics is still a man’s world. Let’s reimagine the law of this jungle
The absence of women in key political debates has led many of us to turn down the sound and disengage. The natural world may offer a template for change.
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- Opinion
- Marine life
Our love of the ocean runs deep, but yet, we’re in troubled waters
Images of a baby colossal squid this week reminds us that the deep sea is an almost inexhaustible source of awe.
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- Opinion
- Work/life balance
How’s your work-life imbalance? This ‘loopy’ office show is uncannily gratifying
Severance has become Apple’s most-watched series. It taps the anxiety and compartmentalisation of the modern working person.
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- Opinion
- Trump's America
Elon Musk is wrong. To spurn empathy is to spur evil
Elon Musk claims empathy is a weakness of Western civilisation. Perhaps he fears a more hopeful view of human nature.
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- Opinion
- Literature
This most despised author’s task may soon vanish. I won’t miss it
Book blurbs have been around for centuries and have long been panned for hyperbole. Happily, at least one major publisher has decided enough’s enough.
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