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Dec 12, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Steph Harmon |Sian Cain |Susan Wyndham |James Bradley |Alyx Gorman |Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen | +9 more
Juice by Tim WintonFiction, Penguin, $49.99 (hardback)Juice opens as our unnamed narrator, surviving in a climate-ravaged Australia 200 years into the future, is captured by a hostile party and forced to tell his story to save his life – a sort of Scheherazade at the end of the world.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
tandfonline.com | Sarah Barnett |Jacob M. Appel |James Bradley
AbstractPhysicians are expected to ensure that patients are meaningfully informed and have voluntarily consented prior to engaging in any medical interventions upon a competent patient with decisional capacity. One aspect of informed consent is the disclosure of information that a reasonable patient might require to make a knowledgeable decision. A potential exception to this principle arises regarding the disclosure of a surgeon’s degree of skill compared to that of their competitors.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | James Bradley
Juice Picador, pp.528, 22 Late last year in Australia’s The Monthly, Tim Winton wrote an essay on the urgent need for writers to look the climate crisis in the eye. Quoting Amitav Ghosh’s observation about the ‘patterns of evasion’ that continue to conceal the scale of the catastrophe, he argued that writers must overcome the habits of mind that treat the natural world as an inert externality.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | James Bradley
Late last year in Australia’s The Monthly, Tim Winton wrote an essay on the urgent need for writers to look the climate crisis in the eye. Quoting Amitav Ghosh’s observation about the ‘patterns of evasion’ that continue to conceal the scale of the catastrophe, he argued that writers must overcome the habits of mind that treat the natural world as an inert externality. Instead, they must find ways to recognise that we are part of nature, and our fate is inseparable from the world around us.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Sian Cain |Steph Harmon |Joseph Cummins |Dee Jefferson |Bec Kavanagh |James Bradley | +3 more
Juice by Tim WintonFiction, Penguin Random House, $49.99 (hardback)Juice is a Tim Winton novel, but not as you know it. Though it shares many concerns with his other works – the environment, family, the costs of an activist’s life – it also has an urgent energy I haven’t see before: a zing that jolts you out of your comfort zone, like a slap to the face.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Maggie Munn |Monique Hurley |Stan Grant |James Bradley
Victoria’s backflip on raising the age of criminal responsibility – and the new NT government’s plans to lower it – fails children, Indigenous communities and the nation No child should ever grow up in a prison cell. Children belong in schools and playgrounds, and need to be supported to learn from their mistakes, not locked in cages.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Brodie Lancaster |Stan Grant |James Bradley |Katherine Wilson
Writer-director Rich Peppiatt’s debut feature film is a fanciful account of the provocative Irish rap trio Kneecap, starring the band themselves In 2018, the death of Irish woman Margaret Keane made headlines when the Irish-language phrase her family planned to engrave on her epitaph was ruled, by a court of the Church of England, to be too political and provocative if an English translation weren’t displayed alongside it.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | David Neustein |Stan Grant |James Bradley |Katherine Wilson
The Melbourne-based architects whose focus on sustainability and landscape continuity means they hope to never produce a new building Mauro Baracco and Louise Wright are in the future. From where they’re standing, 10 or 20 years from now, the architectural profession looks quite different to the one we’re familiar with today. For a start, there are no newly constructed buildings, nor is there any work on undeveloped land.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Phillipa McGuinness |Stan Grant |James Bradley |Katherine Wilson
Remembering Australia’s home-cooking pioneer Margaret Fulton, on what would have been her 100th year “No dietary requirements.” When I’m RSVPing to an event or invited to someone’s house for dinner, I’m the straightforward guest with no dietaries or allergies. Open-minded and generally unfussy in my tastes, I was surprised by how little I fancied as I leafed through the first pages of Entertaining with Margaret Fulton (1971) and The Margaret Fulton Cookbook (1968). Devilled Eggs.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | James Bradley |Stan Grant |Katherine Wilson |Maggie Munn
Visiting one of the country’s massive landfill sites to understand the dangers of how we deal with millions of tonnes of waste It is a bitterly cold day in July when I arrive at Cleanaway’s Lucas Heights Resource Recovery Park on Sydney’s southern edge. Standing in the car park, I stare at the huge hill that rises up behind it, its sides a scree of pale rock and dirt.
