Anna Krien

1 month ago | themonthly.com.au | David Marr |Geraldine Brooks |Margaret Simons |Anna Krien

Nothing. Six months passed without a fight. Then a year. The Quadrant crowd was silent. I’d written a book about slaughter on the Queensland frontier on a mighty scale, and the old history warriors were not out denouncing my work as lies, all lies. I thought for a time the history wars were done and dusted. I was fooling myself. Squabbles in little magazines are chickenfeed these days. The battlefront moved years ago to the highest levels of politics.

1 month ago | themonthly.com.au | Anna Krien |Geraldine Brooks |David Marr |Morgan Campbell

Melbourne’s on-again off-again embrace of street art is now tested by the trial of the alleged artist behind ‘Pam the Bird’ “Now,” begins Jonathan Barreiro, the defence barrister leaning close to the screen as if trying to peer inside Melbourne’s Magistrate Court. On the stand, police informant senior constable Michael McCarthy twists in his seat so he can see Barreiro on the monitor. “Let’s begin with the street art char—”“I wouldn’t call it that,” McCarthy interjects. The lawyer leans back.

Oct 31, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Tara Kenny |Don Watson |Anna Krien |Jason Koutsoukis

Current Issue Newsletters Podcasts Login Subscribe November 2024 Noted Netflix’s Top End cattle station drama, from the director of ‘Wolf Creek’, is an enjoyably histrionic soap opera If you live in urban Australia and have never had to wrestle a crocodile or fend off a disgruntled kangaroo, you might be surprised by the extent to which the rest of the world defines this country in relation to its dangerous animals.

Oct 31, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Anna Krien |Don Watson |Jason Koutsoukis |Kate Fitz-Gibbon

What we have lost since the internet’s libertarian pioneers failed to foresee the dangers of life on the unregulated digital frontier “The future is digital.” I heard this repeatedly when I was researching schools’ relationships with tech companies a few years ago for what would turn out to be an investigation in these pages of a pervasive – if not predatory – influence on curriculum.

Oct 31, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Hugh Leitwell |Don Watson |Anna Krien |Jason Koutsoukis

Treating all rats and mice like invasive pests has led to extinctions of native rodents important to our ecosystems It’s a midwinter morning in Melbourne when I bump into my neighbour. “If you had 15 minutes with a native rodent expert, what would you say?” I ask. I’m running late to the 70th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian Mammal Society, a four-day conference that gathers more than 140 of the nation’s best and brightest ecologists, scientists and conservationists.