The Monthly

The Monthly stands out as one of Australia's most daring publications, delivering insightful commentary and lively, sometimes provocative discussions on national matters. Featuring some of the country's top intellectuals, writers, and critics such as David Marr, Helen Garner, Don Watson, and Anna Goldsworthy, this magazine combines in-depth reporting, analytical essays, and reflective reviews.

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e4444e’s ‘Authentic Natural Tradition’

1 month ago | themonthly.com.au | Chris Johnston

The codified e4444e shortens himself to e4 for brevity but in real life he is Romy Church, a phenomenally talented young musician from Newcastle/Awabakal. He started releasing very independent, very DIY music 10 years ago with Edgar, seven tracks of homemade beats and noise, the sound of an emerging artist making basic marks with basic tools. A lot has changed – some things have not, but a lot has.
Pushing the needle

2 months ago | themonthly.com.au | Jo Chandler |George Megalogenis |Madison Griffiths |Richard Denniss

It’s 4.30am when two grey-haired women pick their way by torchlight across the logging coupe in New South Wales’s Bulga State Forest. They plant a pair of green plastic chairs in the churned earth under a monster tree-harvester. They get some help bolting onto the machine – chunky D-locks looped around their necks, the weight nestled on rolls of towelling. Then it’s just the two of them. Dawn dials up the birdsong and illuminates a wash of mist rolling through the trees they have come to save.
Niall Williams’ ‘Time of the Child’

2 months ago | themonthly.com.au | Helen Elliott |George Megalogenis |Jo Chandler |Madison Griffiths

The Irish author returns to the setting of his acclaimed novel ‘This Is Happiness’, for an exalted mystery of a baby abandoned at Christmas Here is the opening line of Niall Williams’ new novel: “This is what happened in Faha over the Christmas of 1962, in what became known in the parish as the time of the child.” The narration – measured, intimate – continues, talking of miracles, of Faha itself – probably, ah no, certainly the last place in all of Ireland where anything happens.
A review of the literature

2 months ago | themonthly.com.au | Simon Webster |George Megalogenis |Jo Chandler |Madison Griffiths

Coming back to Perth after a decent stint away, one can feel a bit like Rip Van Winkle waking from his 20-year snooze to find his village near unrecognisable, the American Revolution having come and gone. The changes were perhaps not so drastic at my in-laws’ place – there were now purple creepers in the garden beds, and a new armchair in the living room – but things were still different, slightly askew. And it wasn’t just decorative. Open a window and you’d feel it: change was in the air.
Pain’s handmaiden

2 months ago | themonthly.com.au | Madison Griffiths |George Megalogenis |Jo Chandler |Richard Denniss

In a Quiet cul-de-sac in Wodonga, on the border of Victoria and New South Wales, Serena Brejcha retrieves a two-metre-long banner from its cardboard sheath. Quietly, she unfurls it. It is barely January, and her house is still decorated with many a Christmas ornament. Given the banner’s scale, she and her husband clasp a hold of each end so I am able to read its provocation.
The shooter

Mar 27, 2025 | themonthly.com.au | Alex Miller |George Megalogenis |Jo Chandler |Madison Griffiths

New short fiction about a life changed by an incident on a remote property outside Sydney, where the city’s youth come to drink and shoot guns When I heard the first shot I was alone in the cottage that afternoon, sitting at the kitchen table answering a friend’s letter. I stopped writing and looked up. The shot was followed by several more in quick succession. One or two sounded to me to be rifle fire, the snap of the echoes going back and forth across this narrow neck of the valley.
Australia’s Trump election

Mar 27, 2025 | themonthly.com.au | George Megalogenis |Jo Chandler |Madison Griffiths |Richard Denniss

Beyond the deals that will be needed to form Australia’s next government, the outcome of this federal election will be determined by a wildcard influence from outside our politics – the Trump presidency There was a time when the leaders of Australia’s Labor and Liberal parties refused to entertain the question of minority government, and no one seemed to mind. It was just about the final taboo in our politics, and it relied on the assumption that Australians crave stability above all else.
Major/minor

Mar 27, 2025 | themonthly.com.au | Richard Denniss |George Megalogenis |Jo Chandler |Madison Griffiths

In 2022, Anthony Albanese swept into majority government despite a swing away from Labor of 0.8 per cent compared to Bill Shorten’s primary vote in 2019. Luckily for Albanese, Scott Morrison had driven away 5.7 per cent of Liberal voters. And as any political strategist will tell you, a messy win is better than a clean loss.
April 2025

Mar 23, 2025 | themonthly.com.au | Jo Chandler |Madison Griffiths |Richard Denniss |John Stephenson

As climate protests gather force around the country, what is driving a wide range of people from despair to direct action? In a class action loss against Bayer for harms caused by its Essure contraceptive device, some saw familiar failures of medicine and the law when it comes to female bodies
‘Frankly terrifying’: Albanese’s secret climate report

Mar 18, 2025 | themonthly.com.au | Ruby Jones |Karen Barlow

7am is a daily news podcast brought to you by Schwartz Media and The Saturday Paper. How to listen? Website Chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper, Karen Barlow, on why the government is keeping national security threats a secret. In December last year, a group of crossbenchers dialled into a secret call with the Albanese government.