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WEBThe Monthly is a magazine published by Schwartz Media. The Monthly | Australian politics, society & culture. A reflection on the process and burden of creating an imagined future during a time of climate crisis and existential dread. Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, taking in theatre, visual art, books, dance ...
About - The Monthly
WEBThe Monthly is one of Australia’s boldest voices, providing enlightening commentary and vigorous, at times controversial, debate on the issues that affect the nation. Home to our finest thinkers, journalists and critics, including David Marr, Helen Garner, Don Watson and Anna Goldsworthy, the magazine offers a mix of investigative reportage, critical essays and thoughtful reviews.
Dangerous precedents - The Monthly
WEBApr 1, 2021 · It was a spectacularly ironic day. On March 3, Grace Tame delivered her address to the National Press Club in Canberra. Calling for reform, conversation and courage, the Australian of the Year delivered a powerful oration that garnered a standing ovation. Just hours later, the federal attorney-general, Christian Porter, gave a press conference in Perth to deny allegations that he had sexually ...
Somerton Man: the science and the myths - The Monthly
WEBSep 1, 2022 · At last, the identity of Somerton Man, found dead on an Adelaide beach 73 years ago, has been discovered. Thanks to a DNA study of a hair shaft and a long process of elimination, a team led by Adelaide University Professor Derek Abbott and forensic genealogist Colleen Fitzpatrick has revealed that the mystery man was, with 99.9 per cent certainty, Carl “Charles” Webb, who was visiting ...
Hugh White - The Monthly
WEBHugh White | The Monthly. The Monthly is a magazine published by Schwartz Media. Hugh White is an emeritus professor of strategic studies at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University. The new Defence Strategic Review makes it clear the government has made no serious commitment to either supporting the US against ...
Tracey Moffatt’s ‘Laudanum and Other Works’ - The Monthly
WEBJul 1, 2016 · Tracey Moffatt is the mistress of the unexpected. Famous from the late 1980s for ambitious quasi-narrative photo suites and films that circle around Aboriginal life in more or less contemporary Australia, she has always refused pigeonholing as an “Aboriginal artist”. This concise, thoughtful selection from the AGNSW’s holdings, one of the regular solo shows in the photography gallery ...
‘Trust’ - The Monthly
WEBJul 1, 2022 · Trust (Pan Macmillan), the title of Hernan Diaz’s second novel, is a play on words: trust in the world of business, trust in what those who work in finance tell us, trust in the efficiency of power; arcane money trusts that only the powerful need and only the wealthy understand.Trust, the novel, could be called Wealth: Creation Myths.But that’s dull and there is not a dull moment in this ...
The man who never grew up - The Monthly
WEBSep 1, 2016 · The late Roald Dahl, who was born 100 years ago this month, had many qualities that made him an outstanding children’s writer, including an eccentric sort of humour, an acute sense of fairness and a delight in words. But a lifelong sweet tooth may have been his most vital characteristic. Among the talismans that Dahl kept in his writing hut in the English village of Great Missenden was a ...
Shades of grey: Kerstin Thompson Architects | The Monthly
WEBJul 1, 2022 · Completed in 2019, the redesign of Town Hall Broadmeadows has since garnered a number of significant awards, including the 2020 Victorian Architecture Medal and the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Design Award for Architecture. Born in Melbourne in 1965 and educated at RMIT, Kerstin Thompson is one of …
A rightful place - The Monthly
WEBSep 16, 2014 · A rightful place | The Monthly. The Monthly is a magazine published by Schwartz Media. Had Galarrwuy Yunupingu and his dilak elders been present at the creation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901, there might have been a scene like this: I wait for the new prime minister …. An event is taking place at Yirrkala and I …