Monique Ross

Nov 10, 2024 | abc.net.au | Erin Semmler |Monique Ross

After being unfairly labelled a drug cheat, after missing an Olympics through a two-year ban, after clawing her way back into the Australian team, Shayna Jack is sitting on the pool deck, nursing a broken hand. There’s five weeks to go until her big comeback, the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham — and doctors tell her recovery will take at least eight weeks. "I was told there's no way I'm going back," Jack tells Australian Story.

Nov 3, 2024 | abc.net.au | Monique Ross |Ben Cheshire

In a remote pocket of the Kimberley, Chris Henggeler has seen scorched dry earth become a thriving oasis — an extraordinary transformation he credits partly to a radical experiment with a maligned feral pest. The pioneering land manager believes wild donkeys are helping to regenerate his land, and says they could also revolutionise how the region manages bushfire risk. The West Australian government has issued a kill order for the donkeys, but Chris would rather go to jail than shoot them.

Oct 26, 2024 | theguardian.com | Monique Ross

I had already been nude for a solid seven minutes when renowned artist Spencer Tunick yelled into a megaphone: “Nobody should be naked yet – there’s still 45 minutes until sunrise!”The thousands of other naked people milling around came to a halt. We glanced at each other with confused eyes. Did he just say we shouldn’t be naked? A few keen beans had jumped the gun, and a few more had followed suit. Some people reunited with their clothes, but for me, there was no going back.

Oct 20, 2024 | abc.net.au | Monique Ross |Winsome Denyer

A little boy, sporting a long rat's tail and channelling his best Bart Simpson, hurls an egg across the primary school playground. It smashes into a girl who, unbeknownst to him, has a terrible egg allergy. Immediately, a welt appears. The first brush between Jack Manning Bancroft and Yael Stone hardly reads like the beginnings of a friendship, let alone a love story.

Jun 23, 2023 | abc.net.au | Monique Ross

When Australian artist eX de Medici came across a video of performers sloshing around in hundreds of litres of animal blood, sharing a stage with the carcass of a freshly slaughtered bull, she couldn't bear to watch.