We know UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal was rejected in parliament this week. We’ve all heard the numbers – 432 to 202. We’ve been told this is the most humiliating parliamentary defeat of a British government in recent history. We’ve read about the soft and hard Brexiters, and those who support a deal while others don’t. But if we’re honest with ourselves, do we really understand what is actually happening? Luckily Giovanni Di Lieto has tied it all together – from the referendum to the defeat, he explains the deal and all the buzz words in between. And he even ventures into the so-called “backstop” with the Ireland border, which he says is the thorniest issue in the debate.

Preliminary hearings of the aged care royal commission start today in Adelaide, potentially unearthing thousands of new cases of abuse, neglect and substandard care in our nursing homes. But as Professor Joseph Ibrahim reports, any changes that come out of the royal commission will likely come too late for today’s elderly residents. Instead, it’s people now in their 50s and 60s, and their kids, who will benefit most.

And, when Australia was colonised, people spoke at least 250 languages. Today, only 10% of Indigenous Australians speak an Indigenous language at home. As 2019 is the International Year of Indigenous Language, Laura Rademaker looks at how colonisers deliberately dismantled Australia’s incredible linguistic diversity.

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