It’s NAIDOC week! You can show your support by buying from Black-owned businesses, reading books by First Nations authors (check out blackfulla_bookclub on Instagram) and reading these questions for the thoughtful ally. We also urge you to check out the 50 Words Project, where you can hear 50 words in Australian Indigenous languages
The potential Pfizer Covid vaccine has been dominating news headlines this week, with reports stating that it may be up to 90% effective. Here’s everything you need to know about this vaccine broken down into simple terms, and what it could mean for us
After the NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian called for an amendment to the Australian national anthem, the Australian rapper and Yorta Yorta man Briggs responded with a brilliant video explaining what the anthem sounds like to First Nations peoples, and why it’s time for change
What Americans were doing on Saturday when they heard the news (scroll down to the comments)
You’re not alone if you feel that 2020 – perhaps the most dramatic and memorable year of our lifetimes – seems shuffled and disordered, like a giant blur
This four-minute short film about how to be alone will be the best four minutes you watch all week, we promise
Here’s what foreign media correspondents think of the US
Five nice things
Our weekend plans involve making this potato gem egg bake, and then eating said potato gem egg bake
… and if we really feel like eating our feelings, we may even try out this new Rachel Roddy recipe for semolina gnocchi with butter, parmesan and sage
This piece in the Guardian about the rise of platonic co-parenting (and specifically people matching online for the sole purpose of having a child together) is utterly fascinating
A week in the life of a Melbourne food delivery worker
An unflinchingly honest piece about what it’s like to mask severe ADHD your entire life (“On a good day, it’s like watching a train whizz past you while you’re trying to read the text on the side and make out faces in the windows. On a bad, a bird might land in front of you. Curious, you pull out your phone, Google the bird and get stuck in a “pigeons of the world” vortex. Dazed, you sink under a dark cloud of self-loathing, lamenting another lost day. You don’t remember what kind of bird it was.”)
A long list of albums and songs to listen to when you want to calm down
