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Many local award-winning authors first found a home at a small publishing house, but as yet another is subsumed by one of the ‘big five’, there are fears for the writers of the future

Australia has been unique in the anglosphere for decades, as its independent publishers have resisted the forces of conglomeration and remained privately owned – often by their founders. But this week the third independent publisher in less than six months has merged with a multinational.

In offending Australia’s First Nations people, the chef is at least offering a cautionary tale for other celebrity authors

President-elect intensifies longstanding media hostility by filing lawsuits against New York Times, CBS and others

Billy and the Epic Escape to be withdrawn worldwide after First Nations groups say fantasy novel trivialises complex and painful histories

Indigenous organisations have called for the book to be pulled from shelves

Critics say fantasy novel trivialises Indigenous culture and painful histories

No one who watched Alexei Navalny’s meteoric trajectory, from civic activist to opposition leader to the world’s most famous political prisoner, could avoid the question: how will this extraordinary saga end? Was Navalny destined to become Russia’s Nelson Mandela, a redemptive leader who guided his people from oppression to the…

’To claim this book is fiction dismisses our perspective and history,’ one advocate said