Spotlight: How the teals really won, with Simon Holmes à Court
WEBOne of the most consequential political shifts of 2022 was the election of several ‘teal’ independent candidates to the federal parliament. The teals were mostly professional women who ran in traditionally Liberal-held seats, and campaigned on climate, integrity, and equality. Their election en masse was a shock to the Liberal party, and could herald a more permanent shift away from the ...
Transforming the national imagination: The ‘Dark Emu’ debate
WEBJul 1, 2021 · It is strange that, for someone with Tasmanian Aboriginal ancestry, Bruce Pascoe largely ignores Tasmania when reimagining pre-conquest Aboriginal life in his publishing sensation, Dark Emu. It is difficult to know how Pascoe would depict ancestors who shared few of the technologies he celebrates as markers of …
Artful lodgers: The Heide Museum of Modern Art | The Monthly
WEBOct 1, 2021 · There’s lots to enjoy about a visit to Melbourne’s Heide Museum of Modern Art, not least how the city recedes steadily in the rear-view mirror and is soon replaced by quieter rhythms: the way the snaking path of the Yarra River can be sensed close by, even when it’s not seen, or the way, once you arrive, there’s such …
Scott Morrison’s quiet Australians - The Monthly
WEBJul 2, 2019 · For better or worse, some phrases stick. The more memorable examples, from prime ministers over recent decades, makes for a rather bracing display of what is the true centre of Australian politics – conservative Australia’s grandest ambitions and deepest fears in free verse. “Life wasn’t meant to be easy.” “An Australian nation that feels comfortable and relaxed about three things ...
Why Angus Taylor tanked Australia’s carbon market
WEBThe changes made it cheaper for big companies to pollute. They also cost the government as much as $3.5 billion. Mike Seccombe on why Taylor did it and what it means. A few weeks ago, Energy Minister Angus Taylor made changes to the Australian carbon market - crashing the value of government-issued carbon credits.
Thea Proctor & Margaret Preston - The Monthly
WEBNov 5, 2008 · Until the cakes started to fly, the two artists were something of a mutual admiration society. Thea Proctor was elegant, tasteful and generous, while Margaret Preston was flamboyant and stubbornly single-minded. One painted ladies on fans, the other preferred bottlebrush and banksia. But temperament and subject matter aside, they had much in common.
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 ...
JJ McRoach & Hunter S Thompson - The Monthly
WEBJul 5, 2012 · They were somewhere above Batlow in New South Wales when the drugs began to take hold. Not for the first time since Hunter S Thompson’s arrival in Australia, JJ McRoach began to think he’d made a terrible mistake. He was strapped in a Piper Apache in the middle of an electrical storm with a coke-snorting maniac, ankle deep in tequila slops and melted ice, struggling to hold down a tab of ...
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 …
Les Murray’s magisterial ‘Collected Poems’ - The Monthly
WEBDec 1, 2018 · There he sits, in black and white, arms splayed on leather rests, the toothy grin on his face that of grand doyen but also wolfy grandmother – utterly at ease, an already winner. He’d bet his life, as he’s said, on poetry; here is the prize. Les Murray is 80 and his Collected Poems, nearly 800 pages, is a magisterial achievement. A life ...