10 long reads for the weekend

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Welcome to the weekend. To start off your day, we’ve curated 10 great reads to enjoy.

The liquor retailing giant says it is only adapting to major shifts in consumer habits, not abandoning the big box “category killers” that made it so popular.

Agi Pfeiffer-Smith says Dan Murphy’s is only adapting to major shifts in consumer habits. 

Debate about the details, partisan bickering and indifference about Indigenous affairs are all continuing to hamper the Yes case.

The prospect of “higher for longer” interest rates is hitting financial markets and raising questions about whether the Reserve Bank’s less aggressive interest rates than overseas can last.

Childcare in Australia is among the most expensive in the OECD and government subsidies have increased. But centre operators don’t appear to be rolling in profits.

This week, the US House of Representatives made history by voting to remove Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy. It now needs to appoint another — and quickly.

Some of the world’s biggest and smallest companies reckon technology can disrupt Australia’s lithium boom by unlocking vast new supplies and crushing prices.

Can the chief of the company formerly known as Twitter survive Elon Musk’s chaos and win back advertisers?

Journalist turned bestselling author Trent Dalton says he owes a huge debt to his hometown of Brisbane for turning his and his family’s life around.

Lewis’s account is among four new books to explore cryptocurrency’s boom and bust, its larger-than-life characters — and the ordinary people who lost so much.

This cruise around the Greek islands invites guests to go the whole A-lister hog – from having their own agents to throwing tantrums and demanding of staff: “Don’t you know who I am?”