This week on Uncommon Sense, New Matildas Ben Eltham chatted to host Amy Mullins on the latest in federal politics, and Amber Jamieson, Breaking News Reporter for Buzzfeed US dialled in from New York to talk American politics. Professor David Lindenmayer from the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the ANU discussed the unique and critically endangered Mountain Ash forests and their ecosystem in Victoria's Central Highlands, and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, film critic and co-editor of Senses of Cinema spoke about her Overland essay on the history of women's film criticism in Australia.