Louise Milligan

2 months ago | themonthly.com.au | Quentin Sprague |Paul Barry |Margaret Simons |Louise Milligan

Current Issue Newsletters Podcasts Login Subscribe February 2025 Arts & Letters The work of the great Australian documentary photographer proposes portraits as mirrors, containing both the subject and the artist I have a special love for good documentary photography. You know the kind – the images that show life in all its beautiful, complex, world-making everyday glory.

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.

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.

2 months ago | themonthly.com.au | Jonathan Green |Paul Barry |Margaret Simons |Louise Milligan

The respected intellectual’s writing is a reminder of a moral rigour lost to public debate and universities, replaced by populism and culture-war politics I closed the last page of Robert Manne’s memoir with a sense of faint melancholy, and a nostalgia for a public conversation filled by a form of constructive conservatism that, these days, seems lost. His book describes a political discourse that was a thing of moral parameters, rigour, and an earnest search for truth and reason.

2 months ago | themonthly.com.au | Kate Jinx |Paul Barry |Margaret Simons |Louise Milligan

It’s an all too familiar sight: a daughter in a rush, trying to get off the phone with her probing mother. Early on in Payal Kapadia’s sensuous, incandescent second feature All We Imagine as Light, we see Anu (Divya Prabha), a young nurse trying to wrap up such a call, fibbing that she must return to work: “Of course surgeries happen at night! As if a patient’s heart will wait!” But it’s her own heart and those of the two other women the film follows that are in a state of limbo.