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2 months ago | 
themonthly.com.au | Louise Milligan |Paul Barry |Margaret Simons |Don Watson
The Monthly has chosen to temporarily remove Louise Milligan’s recent essay from our website. We have been made aware of an active case that is about to come before the courts that had not been previously in the public domain. In the interests of protecting the integrity of that case, we have taken down the story. When the case concludes, the essay will be made available to readers once again.
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2 months ago | 
themonthly.com.au | Louise Milligan |Paul Barry |Margaret Simons |Don Watson
The day politicians, priests and pundits filed into St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney for the pontifical requiem mass venerating Cardinal George Pell as a Catholic hero, a soldier for truth, a prospective saint and an unfortunate scapegoat in a vast woke conspiracy, a mathematics teacher was at home, seething.
In David’s inbox was a letter from the National Redress Scheme that threw into serious doubt the platitudes of the faithful. It was dated December 7, 2022 – five weeks before Pell’s death.
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2 months ago | 
themonthly.com.au | Margaret Simons |Paul Barry |Louise Milligan |Don Watson
Is a biennial indigenous festival in Taiwan an attempt to atone for the grim truth of a people’s extinction? The November moon was behind the clouds, a brushstroke of white in the dark, when the first song began. There were flaming torches. An arrow was shot into the east. Four fires burned in the corners of the arena. Then a long line of people, arms interlinked, paced into the ritual grounds, their voices rising in a wave.
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2 months ago | 
themonthly.com.au | Don Watson |Paul Barry |Margaret Simons |Louise Milligan
Donald Trump’s return to the White House is a persuasive reminder that the US has always been a less than perfect democracy If anyone tries to tell you what is going on in the United States, walk away. Do not be like the novice at the racetrack, prey to every passing tout. The more we listen to them, the more clueless and miserable we become. And because we don’t know what is happening now we can’t even guess what will happen tomorrow, which leaves us unsettled and searching for signs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Sean O’Beirne |Don Watson |Anna Krien |Jason Koutsoukis
The Irish author’s tendency to blend literary and popular fiction is again evident in her latest novel, another tidy love story Reading Sally Rooney’s books is a chance to think about the difference between literary and popular fiction, and why literary fiction is not better, exactly, but rarer, harder to appreciate, absolutely necessary. Popular fiction, no matter how “dark” or “complicated” it can be, often provides too much reassurance.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Chris Johnston |Don Watson |Anna Krien |Jason Koutsoukis
Sarah Davachi is a storied composer and musician from Canada exploring classical and chamber music, and the art of the ambient synthesiser drone, in extraordinary ways and in amazing spaces. Pipe organs in churches are her thing: she abstracts, retunes and reinvents them in her recordings and residencies.
There is a certain gravity she brings to her recorded music – 12 albums or doubles since 2015.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Don Watson |Jason Koutsoukis |Kate Fitz-Gibbon |Steve Dow
Current Issue Newsletters Podcasts Login Subscribe Essays The Nation Reviewed Vox Arts & Letters Noted Life sentences Essays The Nation Reviewed Vox Arts & Letters Noted Cartoon Essays International politics My fellow Americans A speech for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in the event of an election outcome Federal politics In like Glyn What do the passions and professional triumphs of Glyn Davis, the intellectual running the prime minister’s office, tell us about this...
