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Open letter urges Labor to reverse JRG scheme, introduced by Coalition in 2021, as cost of humanities degrees reaches more than $50,000

When it was revealed that Meta had used a dataset of pirated books to train its latest AI model, Llama, Australian authors were furious. Works by writers including Liane Moriarty, Tim Winton, Melissa Lucashenko, Christos Tsiolkas and many others had been scraped from the online shadow library LibGen without permission.

Just in time for your Christmas shopping: Guardian Australia’s critics and staff pick out the best of the best

From a post-apocalyptic dystopia to a brilliant time-travel debut, a far-future take on humanity and more

Exclusive: Group of more than 90 including writers Tim Winton and Charlotte Wood have paid for every federal senator and MP to receive curated package

This sci-fi tale of avengers hunting polluters in a scorched Australian dystopia serves as an essential call to arms over global heating

Set centuries from now, this gripping tale of retribution against the corporations who fuelled climate breakdown has echoes of Cormac McCarthy

Only time will tell if his new novel is closer to fact or fiction.

The author has simultaneously written a love letter to Australia and hate mail to those who lay waste to the Earth. Read it and weep