GIANTS OF LITERATURE MAKE STAND! Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee joins Booker Prize winner Thomas Keneally & Miles Franklin winner Kim Scott in calling out closure of UWA Publishing

EXCLUSIVE: Some Indigenous residents of the Western Australian goldfields town of Kalgoorlie are not happy with The Goldfields Land and Sea Council with claims of local infighting and self-interest having taken root. True Crime News Weekly correspondent Gary Johnston gingerly wades into the troubles.

Police brutality, corruption and abuses of power are costing almost $50 million each year in Australia as taxpayers cough up the bill, writes Luke Brett Moore, who has launched a legal advocacy firm to help victims of police brutality and highlight the great cost paid by the public.

The growing artistic and cultural boycott of the Sydney Festival over a questionable sponsorship arrangement with the Israeli Government has pushed art into the background, writes Irfan Yusuf.