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Scott Morrison’s quiet Australians - The Monthly
WEBJul 2, 2019 — For better or worse, some phrases stick. The more memorable examples, from prime ministers over recent decades, makes for a rather bracing display of what is the true centre of Australian politics – conservative Australia’s grandest ambitions and deepest fears in free verse. “Life wasn’t meant to be easy.” “An Australian nation that feels comfortable and relaxed about three things ...
Dangerous precedents - The Monthly
WEBApr 1, 2021 — It was a spectacularly ironic day. On March 3, Grace Tame delivered her address to the National Press Club in Canberra. Calling for reform, conversation and courage, the Australian of the Year delivered a powerful oration that garnered a standing ovation. Just hours later, the federal attorney-general, Christian Porter, gave a press conference in Perth to deny allegations that he had sexually ...
Artful lodgers: The Heide Museum of Modern Art | The Monthly
WEBOct 1, 2021 — There’s lots to enjoy about a visit to Melbourne’s Heide Museum of Modern Art, not least how the city recedes steadily in the rear-view mirror and is soon replaced by quieter rhythms: the way the snaking path of the Yarra River can be sensed close by, even when it’s not seen, or the way, once you arrive, there’s such …
Return of the devil | The Monthly
WEBSep 1, 2021 — When seven Tasmanian devils were born north of Sydney in May, they were the first born on the Australian mainland in 3000 years. Fossil records show that Sarcophilus harrisii were once found across much of south-east and central Australia, and as far west as the Kimberley, where they are depicted in rock paintings. Until sea levels rose between 8000 and 11,000 years ago, a land bridge ...
Shades of grey: Kerstin Thompson Architects | The Monthly
WEBJul 1, 2022 — Completed in 2019, the redesign of Town Hall Broadmeadows has since garnered a number of significant awards, including the 2020 Victorian Architecture Medal and the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Design Award for Architecture. Born in Melbourne in 1965 and educated at RMIT, Kerstin Thompson is one of …
Listening to country: ‘Fractures & Frequencies’ and ‘Infractions’
WEBMar 1, 2021 — The bush stone-curlew is a ground-dwelling, brownish bird with drooping tail feathers and spindly, L-shaped legs. Its most distinctive characteristic is its descending, doleful call – “a ghost-like ‘weer-lo’ sound”, writes artist Megan Cope – often heard at dusk or at night. This call forms the basis of Cope’s sound sculpture Untitled (Death Song), on show in Fractures ...
Coming to the parity - The Monthly
WEBApr 1, 2024 — I am not someone who finds chatbots or bots of any kind particularly useful, but there is one I’d love to see pop up on my social feed more often: the Gender Pay Gap Bot. It is an automatic Twitter/X account engaging in some constructive shaming of organisations in the United Kingdom that tweet key phrases on International Women’s Day. The bot automatically responds with the organisation ...
The silence of the lambs - The Monthly
WEBNov 1, 2021 — This year, Australian charities have been fighting a federal government attempt to silence them. This is not the first time, and it’s a battle Tim Costello, for one, has fought his entire career. Repeatedly dismissed as “that leftist cleric” by Victorian premier Jeff Kennett during the 1990s, Costello, a lawyer and Baptist minister, is known for his public criticism of state and federal ...
Helen Garner’s lockdown diaries, 2021 - The Monthly
WEBOct 1, 2021 — Helen Garner is a novelist and nonfiction writer. Her most recent books are her diaries. We are told that we live in a time of diminished attention spans; a time where the 24-hour-news-cycle has produced a collective desire for hot takes and brief summaries of the news and ideas that effect us. But we don’t believe it.