Jason Koutsoukis

Nov 1, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Ruby Jones |Jason Koutsoukis

7am is a daily news podcast brought to you by Schwartz Media and The Saturday Paper. How to listen? Website Special correspondent for The Saturday Paper Jason Koutsoukis on The Chairman’s Lounge and whether it matters if politicians get a fancy drink in a fancy chair. The prime minister’s relationship with former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, and whether he likes a free upgrade, has been the talk of Canberra, prompted by the publication of a new book called The Chairman’s Lounge.

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.

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.