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The strange vanity of looking untouched

Men’s makeup in 2026 is being sold as maintenance, not performance, revealing how beauty still makes masculinity easiest to market when it looks invisible.

Tahlia Park7 min read
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Culture

Twelve million Australians are streaming music. The old monoculture is gone

A Roy Morgan-backed report says 12.7 million Australians now stream music. The bigger story is cultural: our listening has become private, mood-led and less local, and the shared soundtrack feels thinner for it.

Jordan Atkinson