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2 months ago | 
themonthly.com.au | Katherine Wilson |Paul Barry |Margaret Simons |Louise Milligan
Emma Håkansson has the sartorial elegance of a fashion model, and before her current career she worked as one, “until one of my agents dumped me”. On runways and brand campaigns since she was 15, she endured “many criminal things about modelling” including sexual harassment. But Håkansson’s concerns soon turned to the industry’s environmental damage, animal cruelty and labour injustices. She started refusing to model fast fashion, fur, feathers, wool and leather.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Katherine Wilson
Closing arguments in a landmark case brought by a Victorian abattoir against an animal advocacy charity were heard at the federal court of Australia on Tuesday. The Game Meats Company of Australia is suing Farm Transparency Project, seeking to block publication of footage obtained during seven alleged trespasses at the company’s slaughterhouse in Eurobin in north-east Victoria between January and April.
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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.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Sasha Gattermayr |Stan Grant |James Bradley |Katherine Wilson
The national prison newspaper ‘About Time’ aims to create community among incarcerated peoples and better connect them to the world outside Being imprisoned in Australia is better or worse depending on where you are. In Western Australia, minimum access to open air is three hours a day; in the ACT it is one. Internet is banned in nearly all jurisdictions except for New South Wales, where prisoners can view a handful of approved websites on prison-issued tablets.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Ceridwen Spark |Stan Grant |James Bradley |Katherine Wilson
How the disk-flicking Canadian board game crokinole is bringing a diverse inner-Melbourne community together On first meeting Des, I learnt that his “proper name” was Derek. Laughing, he said he’s been told “it’s a name you can trust”. But as I soon discovered, the trustworthy Derek has an alter ego. To members of the Footscray Flickers Crokinole Club, he’s Dunkin’ Des.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Katherine Wilson |Stan Grant |James Bradley |Maggie Munn
While activists shine a light into the dark corners of the meat industry, new legislation seeks to protect business as usual and criminalise efforts to expose it By the time 30-year-old Bradley O’Reilly’s sexual assault trial started in the northern Victorian town of Echuca, on a foggy morning this June, his alleged victim was missing. Despite efforts to find her, including a petition with 27,317 signatures and a crowdfunded reward for her rescue, Olivia’s whereabouts remained hidden.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Cate Kennedy |Stan Grant |James Bradley |Katherine Wilson
An earworm prompted by a push-button appliance drives the author to distraction – and a Google search for how the Village People are getting on It is a truth universally acknowledged, apparently, that the best and most focused creative writing is produced first thing in the morning, when the mind is still high on its own dream logic, fresh as an untrodden beach after a nocturnal high tide. Nothing must be read before the blank page is approached, particularly not a screen.
