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Feb 27, 2025 | 
themonthly.com.au | Morgan Campbell |Geraldine Brooks |Margaret Simons |Jackson Ryan
Remembering lessons in the art of derailing and the power of obfuscation at a Year 10 Model United Nations day In 2007, the Year 10 students at my school in Newcastle were invited to apply for two spots as delegates to a University of Sydney Model United Nations day. Even at a selective school full of bumptious twerps, I was bumptious enough to see this as an exciting opportunity, and to get selected for our team.
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
themonthly.com.au | Peter Craven |Geraldine Brooks |Margaret Simons |Jackson Ryan
Current Issue Newsletters Podcasts Login Subscribe March 2025 Arts and Letters A new production of ‘Macbeth’ starring David Tennant is an opportunity to consider if it might provide the quintessential tragic role How real is the Macbeth curse, which makes the mere articulation of the title in the theatre a source of dread?
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Feb 23, 2025 | 
themonthly.com.au | Margaret Simons |Jackson Ryan |Ceridwen Spark |David Marr
Current Issue Newsletters Podcasts Login Subscribe Essays The Nation Reviewed Vox Arts and Letters Noted Life sentences Essays The Nation Reviewed Vox Arts and Letters Noted Cartoon Essays Federal politics End matter The demise of the China Matters think tank raises questions about how governments deal with voices they don’t want to hear Science and technology The Sun also revises A scandal in Australia’s space science community suggests the need for increased rigour in reviewing possible...
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
nature.com | Jackson Ryan
Publishing highly cited papers helps postdoctoral researchers to land a faculty job.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Jackson Ryan
Anthony Tan was 16 when his idea for a video game about a deer caught the industry’s eye. Nine years later, he’s still working on it.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
sg.news.yahoo.com | Jackson Ryan |Josh Nicholas
When Australia’s Kaylee McKeown touched the wall ahead of her US rivals in the 100 metre backstroke on 31 July, she secured herself back-to-back Olympic gold medals – the second woman to achieve the feat in the event. Australia’s sixth gold at the Games put the country third in the standings. But not in America. Unlike practically everywhere else in the world, the US likes to rank Olympic achievement by the total medal count – all the gold, silver and bronze accrued by a country’s athletes.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Miriam Cosic |Malcolm Knox |Jackson Ryan |Royce Kurmelovs
Roman Krznaric has a way with history. He outlines the familiar, while constantly inserting quirky extras that augment his argument.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Tara Kenny |Malcolm Knox |Jackson Ryan |Royce Kurmelovs
Netflix’s series about sprinters preparing for the World Athletics Championships skips around doping scandals in favour of formulaic tales of overcoming the odds A six-part Netflix documentary series that trails the world’s fastest sprinters as they prepare for the World Athletics Championships, Sprint begins with American track star Noah Lyles showboating for reporters. Dressed in cowboy boots, a bedazzled YSL jacket, tinted sunglasses and chains, he instructs his coach to get out of the shot.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Peter Craven |Malcolm Knox |Jackson Ryan |Royce Kurmelovs
The luminous Nikki Shiels plays Blanche as an insouciant youth in a much-changed production of Tennessee Williams’ classic There is one luminous moment in Nikki Shiels characterisation of Blanche DuBois in Anne-Louise Sarks’ production of A Streetcar Named Desire. She sits on the toilet bowl, a bottle of whiskey in one hand and her lit birthday cake in the other, and blows on the candles, not to extinguish them but to make the lights dance and delight.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Evie Wyld |Malcolm Knox |Jackson Ryan |Royce Kurmelovs
Homesickness as a family trait, and the author’s persistent feeling she is supposed to be somewhere else As far back as I can remember, my mother has said this. At the end of any car journey, sometimes with a hand gesture like a magician revealing a rabbit, sometimes murmured to herself like a charm. I come from a family of the homesick. My grandmother left England for Australia and was then placed in an orphanage because her mother couldn’t afford to keep her.
