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May 6, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Ashlynne McGhee |Marian Wilkinson
7am is a daily news podcast brought to you by Schwartz Media and The Saturday Paper. How to listen? WebsiteInvestigative journalist and contributor to The Monthly Marian Wilkinson on the Coalition for Conservation lobby and their links to Peter Dutton’s nuclear promises. It’s a small mystery in Australian politics: Why was Peter Dutton’s first major policy as opposition leader a promise to build nuclear power plants?
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
antinuclear.net | Marian Wilkinson |Christina MacPherson
The conservative charity group figures driving the opposition leader’s pivot to nuclear energy Dutton and O’Brien are also brazenly using the AUKUS defence agreement to bolster the case for civilian nuclear power reactors. Under AUKUS, Australia will get submarines powered by small nuclear reactors. As part of the agreement, signed by the Albanese government, Australia is responsible for disposing of the nuclear waste from the subs.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Carrie Tiffany |Marian Wilkinson |Lucia Osborne-Crowley
The author’s lifelong embrace of solitude and small enclosed spaces is reflected in a line from Chekhov We are in the laundry of Nanna’s council flat in West Yorkshire. My brother, age four, suggests that I, age three, climb into the spin tub of Nanna’s new twin-tub washing machine. Does he provide a stool? I can’t remember. The stainless-steel tub is smooth, studded with holes. Perhaps I thought it was a space rocket? I crouch down obligingly so my brother can close the plastic lid.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Declan Fry |Marian Wilkinson |Lucia Osborne-Crowley
The writer’s long-awaited return is a poetry collection that probes the risks of reclaiming histories of colonial traumas When Nam Le’s debut short story collection The Boat landed in 2008 it was so freighted, a big deal, that comparisons to Joyce’s Dubliners felt modest (as did suggestions the book would be read “for as long as people read books” – a little breathless even by blurb standards, of which there are none). A hot minute or two of radio silence followed.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Miriam Cosic |Marian Wilkinson |Lucia Osborne-Crowley
The novelist and essayist’s revelatory exploration of the ocean depths goes beyond science to offer historical, cultural and moral contexts There is something about a prose writer who can deliver a view of the world that is poetic, scientifically detailed and clear to the layman all at once. Something almost biblical. James Bradley is one of those writers, as a novelist, a poet, an essayist and a writer of nonfiction. His new book, Deep Water (Hamish Hamilton), is a revelation.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Cat Woods |Marian Wilkinson |Lucia Osborne-Crowley
Artistic director Antony Hamilton’s latest work, debuting at Rising festival, envelops the audience within its massive inflatable set On the brink of its 30th year, and having created almost 80 original works across stage, installation and multimedia platforms, Melbourne dance company Chunky Move can legitimately be described as one of Australia’s most challenging and exploratory performance companies.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | David Neustein |Marian Wilkinson |Lucia Osborne-Crowley
NMBW Architecture Studio’s innovative inner-Melbourne office conversion exposes the true cost of Modernism’s ‘less is more’ Lifted off the ground on stone platforms, the steel and glass totems designed in the last century by German Modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe seemed to arrive on a blank slate, as if detached from everything that had come before.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Bruce Pascoe |Marian Wilkinson |Lucia Osborne-Crowley
The author’s correspondence with his late friend and colleague on the finer points of boiling water for tea Gillian Mears was a great Australian writer who was stricken with multiple sclerosis and died in 2016. In her last years she converted an old ambulance into a mobile home and toured widely while continuing to write. She became a friend as well as colleague. On her last visit to us, she complained about the difficulties of boiling water, which was addressed in our correspondence.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Jonathan Green |Marian Wilkinson |Lucia Osborne-Crowley
In the age of the individual, are we losing our understanding of the collective and our sense of shared humanity? I didn’t really think about it, to be honest … there wasn’t a second where I considered not helping. I jumped straight up and went straight in. — Brianna Hurst[W]ho is society? There is no such thing! — Margaret ThatcherIn early autumn, Brianna Hurst pulled three men from turbulent seas at Marengo Bay on Victoria’s surf coast.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Lucia Osborne-Crowley |Marian Wilkinson |Jonathan Green
The brilliant career of human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson, legal adviser to Julian Assange One day in early 2010, Jennifer Robinson received a phone call from her mentor and colleague, Australian-British barrister and academic Geoffrey Robertson, telling her – rather cryptically – that he had to come over for lunch that very day. She couldn’t understand why, and he wasn’t giving anything away. But Robinson wasn’t in London that day. When she got back, she went to Robertson’s. It was evening.
