10 long reads for the weekend
Welcome to the weekend. To start off your day, we’ve curated 10 great reads to enjoy.
Derelict properties in Japanese rural areas are being snapped up and renovated for as little as $10,000, but the new homeowners are doing it for love not a profit.
Mark Renshaw made a global cycling career out of helping someone else win – now he’s retired but is heading back to the Tour de France to try to do it again.
Stony-faced Shoigu looks reasonably safe, but you wouldn’t want to be in the military-issue boots of Surovikin or his great rival Gerasimov right now.
Lara Logan was one of the world’s best-known television journalists. She now promotes wild conspiracy theories. What happened?
Many menus are “designed to be shared”. How true that has become; the nation’s restaurants are a hall of mirrors and dishes are consuming entire decades.
It will be of little comfort to the former NSW premier that she won’t be facing criminal charges, given ICAC’s finding that she engaged in “serious corrupt conduct”.
Authorised psychiatrists will be able to prescribe psychedelics to eligible patients as of July 1, but the path ahead is far from straightforward.
PwC global has finally seized control of the Australian operation in a devastating come-down for an outfit that has long prided itself on being the premium brand among the big four consulting firms.
From ocean jacket cheeks topped with house-made lardo to wok-smoked beef ribs, these dishes (and the people who created them) have wowed the AFR Magazine team.
Despite the squeeze on consumer budgets from 12 interest rate rises, the economy has so far proven remarkably resilient.
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