The Monthly | Australian politics, society & culture
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 ...
The absent heart - The Monthly
WEBJun 2, 2010 · I am a restless and disgruntled visitor to museums, not much interested in the engineered detail of an artefact but more in how it fits into the big picture. When I see the 1785 Boulton and Watt steam engine in Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum I want to know not just how it works but its significance for the industrial revolution. Unfortunately, the museum tells me neither and the exhibit stands ...
In times like these, what would Oodgeroo do? - The Monthly
WEBDec 1, 2020 · Oodgeroo Noonuccal is widely acknowledged as a distinguished poet of determination and brilliance. She was also one of the heroes of the Aboriginal struggle for justice in the 1960s, known for her work as an activist, educator and public speaker. Her poetry educated Australians – and people throughout the …
The fossil-fuel industry’s grip on Australian hearts and minds
WEBDec 1, 2021 · In April 2020, as the lockdowns across Australia started to bite, the Minerals Council of Australia – the fossil-fuel industry’s most powerful peak body – launched a national campaign “showing Australians how the resources sector is protecting workers, families and communities from COVID-19”. The campaign, voiced by a diverse range of workers, told of how the mining industry was ...
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 truth about truth-telling - The Monthly
WEBDec 1, 2021 · The pithy tagline for the Uluru Statement from the Heart – “Voice, Treaty, Truth” – in some ways invited this. It gives the false impression that change is an à la carte menu and one can simply pick what suits, even though these three proposals are connected, meaningful and not interchangeable. The reform is Voice: Makarrata.
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 ...
Doctored facts in The Australian
WEBDec 1, 2022 · On Saturday October 8, The Australian published an op-ed titled: “Health disgrace: bureaucrats in bid to silence our doctors”. In a call to arms, Ramesh Thakur alerted readers to imminent Queensland legislation that would muzzle doctors’ medical opinions, particularly with respect to COVID-19 vaccinations. “So now it’s official.
A tightening knot: ‘On Freedom’ - The Monthly
WEBNov 1, 2021 · Rather they are entangled in a Gordian knot. Freedom needs obligation’s constraint. Obligation requires the freedom to authentically care. Try to pull these two apart and the culture unravels. To stick together, we must embrace the knottiness, tolerate the intractable and ease into indeterminacy.
Australia: The official history - The Monthly
WEBFeb 6, 2008 · To my surprise I became the author of the official history of Australia, the one that the Howard government distributed to migrants so that they could prepare for the new citizenship test. The draft I wrote disappeared into the offices of the immigration minister and the prime minister. At some stages it looked like it would not survive or that a few sentences would be incorporated into an ...