The Monthly | Australian politics, society & culture
WEBThe 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, festivals and a YouTube miniaturist.
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 ...
Down on the farm - The Monthly
WEBSep 1, 2024 · By the time 30-year-old Bradley O’Reilly’s sexual assault trial started in the northern Victorian town of Echuca, on a foggy morning this June, his alleged victim was missing. Despite efforts to find her, including a petition with 27,317 signatures and a crowdfunded reward for her rescue, Olivia’s whereabouts remained hidden. The hearings went ahead, as Olivia’s consent wasn’t a ...
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 ...
The middle of nowhere - The Monthly
WEBDec 2, 2019 · As interest in Oasis resurges, talking to the combative brothers recalls their glory years as ‘dirty chancers, stealing riffs instead of Ford Fiestas’. For Australia, the story of the 21st century so far divides into two disjointed decades: a charmed period of affluent complacency followed by a rolling crisis of identity.
Goddamn bloody adult: Jacqui Lambie - The Monthly
WEBMar 1, 2022 · A scar runs down Jacqui Lambie’s forehead from the night she deliberately walked in front of a car. Botox makes it less noticeable. Otherwise, the federal senator is not in the business of hiding her battle wounds. What you see on November 22, 2021, is a 50-year-old woman in hot pink taking the Senate floor. What you get is politics as a street fight.
An imagined life: David Malouf - The Monthly
WEBMar 1, 2024 · An Iranian film about a widow defying post-revolution restrictions and finding love, and Demi Moore in a body-horror film aimed at unreal beauty standards. The English novelist’s latest dark masterpiece begins with the talented, queer, working-class protagonist invited to his sponsors’ country estate.
Broken faith in politics - The Monthly
WEBMay 1, 2015 · For Malcolm Fraser, who saw what was happening. In October 2006, two months before he became leader of the Opposition, a little over a year before he became prime minister, Kevin Rudd published his essay ‘Faith in Politics’ in the Monthly.For a magazine that had been launched only 18 months before, this was a kind of coup.
Terri Butler’s rise through the rancour - The Monthly
WEBMay 1, 2019 · Terri Butler has a soul. If that seems metaphysically self-evident, it can’t be taken for granted among current MPs. Labor’s successor to Kevin Rudd in the Brisbane electorate of Griffith is an unapologetic nerd. She has publicly confessed to playing oboe in high school plus obsessions with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Marvel comic books and punk rock, boasting in her memoir that progressives ...
Artful lodgers: The Heide Museum of Modern Art | The Monthly
WEBOct 1, 2021 · Five women artists come together to challenge the traditional art world’s understanding of “emotional” as female. Adam Elliot’s latest claymation feature tells the melancholy story of fostered siblings and a lonely life of hoarding. Collected works: ‘March Studio: Making Architecture, Material & Process’ and ‘AMAG 36’.