The Saturday Paper

Martin McKenzie-Murray on the unsavoury tale of the Portland Trail Blazers: “It’s a good story, and one deserving better treatment than Netflix’s ‘Jail Blazers’.” satpa.pe/ZpyK7hl

Martin McKenzie-Murray on the unsavoury tale of the Portland Trail Blazers: “It’s a good story, and one deserving better treatment than Netflix’s ‘Jail Blazers’.” satpa.pe/LsPPBpP

As one-time celebrations of video game culture like PAX reckons with mainstream success, ALT: Games fills that space with a celebration of gaming as a cultural touchstone of community. satpa.pe/ksJ1WCr

As one-time celebrations of video game culture like PAX reckons with mainstream success, ALT: Games fills that space with a celebration of gaming as a cultural touchstone of community. satpa.pe/5vd98Yv

"The US president just survived a third assassination attempt," writes Martin McKenzie-Murray. “But such is the world and how we receive news of it, that it became a footnote inside a week." satpa.pe/Et8Ckkn

“There’s an accepted confidence to the American voice, which just doesn’t work in an antipodean context,” says Robbie Arnott. "I’ve published four novels now and it feels even further away than anything I could do. But it’s very, very seductive.” satpa.pe/4482jNj

Philippa Hawker on Yasuzō Masumura’s The Wife of Seisaku, Ernst Lubitsch's One Hour With You, Kira Muratova’s The Asthenic Syndrome and other highlights from this year's Cinema Reborn festival. satpa.pe/Z0AvIPC

Martin McKenzie-Murray on the third assassination attempt on Donald Trump – already just a footnote inside a week. satpa.pe/dVYdb32

"We are a relatively low-tax country, yet we have high service expectations and a large Boomer cohort moving into old age, stretching our health and care systems." Now is the time for tax reform, writes Dr Aruna Sathanapally. satpa.pe/9HSyDZp

Karen Barlow on the rise of violence against Indigenous Australians and what a parliamentary inquiry will investigate. satpa.pe/qXjYoS4

NDIS began with the original social promise of leaving no one behind, writes Georgia Cranko. “‘Nothing about us, without us’ is part of that history, and it is not a phrase that I ever thought I would hear in a speech to do with cutting support.” satpa.pe/7OtNBR1

Even after Australia's navy receives its promised surface and subsurface warships, it will still be unable to do what is asked of it. If the US Navy cannot open the Hormuz Strait, how can anyone expect the much weaker Australian navy to do better? satpa.pe/khdcbop

"Even after the navy receives its promised surface and subsurface warships … the government will be spending huge sums of money to build a fleet that will be unfit for one of its most important tasks." satpa.pe/HZEOgoU

Exclusive: Encrypted text messages obtained by The Saturday Paper appear to show interim vice-chancellor Rebekah Brown methodically assembling the grounds for her predecessor Genevieve Bell’s removal. satpa.pe/nMm9vaZ

Major General Duncan Lewis once ran the Defence Department. He was then Australia’s ambassador to NATO. Later he ran ASIO. He now chairs Thales Australia, which on Monday landed $1.2 billion in government contracts. satpa.pe/MYTKKvr

In a matter of months, ACT senator David Pocock’ linking of the gas tax to beer excise has garnered widespread support in parliament and among the public, although Labor is refusing to act, writes Mike Seccombe. satpa.pe/nW4ZgDe

Exclusive: Phones have been seized and legal advice sought, as a string of explosive text messages reveal Rebekah Brown’s alleged involvement in the toppling of her predecessor as ANU vice-chancellor, Genevieve Bell. satpa.pe/IHDAZuF

Exclusive: Phones seized and screen grabs of Signal chats form part of an investigation into the executive council at Australian National University. satpa.pe/YlAsXSN

The cuts to the NDIS that will be confirmed in the budget force the disabled community to pay the price of systemic abuse and neglect. satpa.pe/1otmRVF

Indigenous leaders had urged the government to fold First Nations racism into the existing Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. A parliamentary inquiry was offered as a compromise. satpa.pe/Kgd5eqN