How Australia’s tipping culture got awkward – and what to do about it

Ten per cent, 20%, 25%? If you’ve made a cashless payment at a cafe or pub lately there’s a reasonable chance you’ve been prompted to tip. Isabella Lee looks into the arrival of US-style tip requests and where that money really goes Walk with Judith Lucy: ‘I’m a bit over getting so much material out of my life’ The moment I knew: For Valentine’s Day he gave me a heart covered in fake blood. I was appalled – and thrilled Leading questions: ‘I’m in my late 60s and in a situationship with a man I really like. I want more but I’m scared of losing him’ Supermarket mustard taste test: The most intense is ‘an excellent torture device’ What to watch | Does Australia need another small-town crime drama? Probably not. But if we must have one, at least it’s the “rock-solid, socially conscientious” Dustfall , starring Anna Torv.

Out Sundays on ABC and available to stream on iview. What to read | The internet’s poet laureate, Patricia Lockwood, is back after a decade spent mostly writing prose. Agate Head/Stone Soup is spikier than some of her previous works but it’s still funny, devastating and relentlessly weird. What to play | Sophia Stel’s hazy electro-pop comfortably traverses both clubs and mornings after. Her new record’s title, The Greatest Album of All Time , might be tongue in cheek but it’s certainly a worthy ambition for a rising star. Speaking of greatest albums, Fontaines DC’s latest, Dopamine Chamber, earned a five-star rave from our critic Laura Snapes . “In the midst of headlines about AI destroying humanity, the idea of listening to music submerged in precisely this shade of doom might sound like, well, hell,” she writes, but: “If anyone can thread that poisoned needle, it’s Fontaines DC. ” What to…