Canadian author Margaret Atwood with her new book The Testaments. Photo: EPA

Opinion

Echoes of Gilead in the modern world

Ahead of a special Q&A cinema event this Sunday in which The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood will talk about her new novel The Testaments, Adelaide writer Susan Mitchell considers why the books have struck such a nerve.

Reader contributions

Your views: on Crows and the park lands, a Lib Senator and North Tce trees

Today, readers comment on the prospect of a professional football club building a headquarters on city park land, reply to a new Senator’s maiden speech, and ask why trees should be felled in the name of landscaping.

Reader contributions

Your views: on the Adelaide Oval Hotel, land tax and Victoria Square

Today, readers comment on the controversial park lands hotel plan, land tax and Victoria Square planning.

Opinion

Cashless welfare card not a painless transaction

The Federal Government plans a long-term rollout of cashless debit cards for younger Newstart recipients, quarantining 80 per cent of payments for living expenses. But the experience of some Indigenous recipients during a trial in Ceduna should give pause for thought, argues Eve Vincent.

Reader contributions

Your views: on Victoria Square, trees and grass

Today, readers comment on fixing and finishing the city’s most problematic space, and suggest that it’s not just fake grass which should be banished.