Yen-Rong Wong reviews 'We're All Gonna Die!', a darkly funny and entertaining production about the dangers of sustained and continued environmental destruction that marks the 100th anniversary of Brisbane's La Boite Theatre:

In his fourth decade of professional dance, Benjamin Millepied is in the enviable position of having the established status, the venues and the dance companies, the contacts, the contexts and the fortitude to make the art he wants to make.

‘People With No Charisma’ is about an unnamed girl whose charismatic mother dies slowly of cancer in the living room, leaving the girl alone with her psychiatrist father.

“Between 2010 and 2012, Nat Fyfe underwent an extraordinary physical and mythic transformation: the scrawny kid was now half-made from marble, and the impoverished fans of Freo had a North Star…”

‘Dune: Awakening’ is a game with RPG and survival mechanics, with strong narrative elements. It is an always-online multiplayer, involves lots of resource gathering and crafting and most strongly rewards those who band together in guilds.

‘Abundance’, by US journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, argues that lifting regulatory barriers is key to public-interest investment. It’s making waves in Canberra – Jim Chalmers calls it “a ripper” – ahead of next week’s Economic Reform Roundtable.

Conspiracy Nation' covers the great replacement theory, 5G, gender ideology, sovereign citizens and conspirituality – mostly vague theories, often racist and fomented by the far right, that coagulated into movements over social media.

Australia signed a $500 million security and economic pact with Vanuatu on Wednesday aimed at countering efforts by China to develop closer ties with the Pacific nation.

“Not only has his government been prepared to condemn the Maugean skate; it has also shown the Australian public that, when faced with the choice between protecting nature and corporations, the corporations will always win.”

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Tasmanian salmon companies hired their own scientists to try to disprove the emergency report, while giving tours to any politicians who were interested. Many took the tours, but not one met with any environmental groups trying to save the Maguean skate.

“I feel the sense of belonging, the sense of safety and the sense of support for everyone who walks through our door.” . Former South Sudanese refugee Elijah Buol becomes head of the Asylum Seekers Centre.

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Brutalist cliffs, howling winds, a black-clad mourner — the opening promises a gothic to match the landscape’s severity. Yet Went Up the Hill’s story, unlike its images, never fully takes hold, writes Christos Tsiolkas.

People With No Charisma is written in a series of chapters or short stories, a chain of pools rather than a running stream, each treating a section of this painful life.

The time is right to test the four-day week, writes Sean Scalmer.

“The tech sector – as much as I’m a big booster of theirs and a supporter – are sometimes their own worst enemy,” Ed Husic says. “They bridle at the idea of an economy-wide AI regulatory framework – for technology that will touch the economy broadly.”

Maddie Nixon, writer of 'We're All Gonna Die!', claims the play “points out the fact that the institutions that we’re meant to trust to keep us safe have been ignoring the impending climate-change crisis”. Its staging is timely, writes Yen-Rong Wong.

Poetry Month runs throughout August nationally with celebrations such as 30in30 – a newly commissioned poem for every day of the month. Read three of them here:

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