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Summer Reading issue is out now! With Don Watson travelling SovCit country after Dezi Freeman, James Bradley on SA’s algal bloom, Ceridwen Spark on drowning, plus Zoe Daniel, Elmo Keep, new fiction from Inga Simpson and Lucy Nelson, and much more. mnth.ly/jYIBRAN
Watching the installation of Archie Moore’s monumental Venice Biennale Golden Lion–winning work ‘kith and kin’ in Brisbane’s QAGOMA.
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December 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Watching the installation of Archie Moore’s monumental Venice Biennale Golden Lion–winning work ‘kith and kin’ in Brisbane’s QAGOMA.
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A memory powerfully triggered by a scent highlights the way imagination and experience are entwined.
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December 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
A memory powerfully triggered by a scent highlights the way imagination and experience are entwined.
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As climate protests gather force around the country, what is driving a wide range of people from despair to direct action?
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December 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
As climate protests gather force around the country, what is driving a wide range of people from despair to direct action?
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December 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A writing prize helped the author realise his dream of buying a house – until he realised he was dreaming.
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December 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
A writing prize helped the author realise his dream of buying a house – until he realised he was dreaming.
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Overshadowed by her more famous spouse, the nearly 98-year-old is a great who has delivered a lifetime’s worth of inquiring, abstract works.
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December 24, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Overshadowed by her more famous spouse, the nearly 98-year-old is a great who has delivered a lifetime’s worth of inquiring, abstract works.
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With the inexorable rise of AI – in everyday tech, in public and private communications, in our universities – the value and distinctness of the written word is under siege.
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December 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
With the inexorable rise of AI – in everyday tech, in public and private communications, in our universities – the value and distinctness of the written word is under siege.
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As the Catholic Church finds a new legal defence against child sexual abuse charges, disgust with the late cardinal George Pell’s glorification has now led some of his own victims to come forward and detail their abuse at his hand.
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December 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
As the Catholic Church finds a new legal defence against child sexual abuse charges, disgust with the late cardinal George Pell’s glorification has now led some of his own victims to come forward and detail their abuse at his hand.
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Despite his senior position in the government, his factional heft within the Labor Party and the critical importance of his portfolio, the defence minister is unusually lacking in enthusiastic supporters.
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December 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Despite his senior position in the government, his factional heft within the Labor Party and the critical importance of his portfolio, the defence minister is unusually lacking in enthusiastic supporters.
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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.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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A scandal in Australia’s space science community suggests the need for increased rigour in reviewing possible research misconduct in our universities.
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December 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
A scandal in Australia’s space science community suggests the need for increased rigour in reviewing possible research misconduct in our universities.
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The Thai-American author brilliantly comes to grips with the comedy and tragedy of life online in this collection of extraordinary stories | Sean O’Beirne mnth.ly/SYga35d
Tony Tulathimutte’s ‘Rejection’
The Thai-American author brilliantly comes to grips with the comedy and tragedy of life online in this collection of extraordinary stories
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December 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The Thai-American author brilliantly comes to grips with the comedy and tragedy of life online in this collection of extraordinary stories | Sean O’Beirne mnth.ly/SYga35d
One of the things this extraordinary book does is make a successful selection, fix enough of the telling details, and help us understand how and why online culture is the dominant culture now. mnth.ly/tKP3cDl
Tony Tulathimutte’s ‘Rejection’
The Thai-American author brilliantly comes to grips with the comedy and tragedy of life online in this collection of extraordinary stories
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December 23, 2025 at 3:21 AM
One of the things this extraordinary book does is make a successful selection, fix enough of the telling details, and help us understand how and why online culture is the dominant culture now. mnth.ly/tKP3cDl
What sort of police force, he says, knocks off at 7.30 to “resume their search the next day”. His father was a Delhi policeman. The Delhi police would have caught Dezi by now, he says.
December 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
What sort of police force, he says, knocks off at 7.30 to “resume their search the next day”. His father was a Delhi policeman. The Delhi police would have caught Dezi by now, he says.
Many questions are being asked after the Bondi Beach shootings, and the hardest ones to address are the most important for our nation’s wellbeing | Josh Burns mnth.ly/zXaAZBu
Lessons from Bondi
Many questions are being asked after the Bondi Beach shootings, and the hardest ones to address are the most important for our nation’s wellbeing
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December 19, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Many questions are being asked after the Bondi Beach shootings, and the hardest ones to address are the most important for our nation’s wellbeing | Josh Burns mnth.ly/zXaAZBu
It was an act of terror carried out by people who chose violence against an innocent community. At a festival of light, where children were playing alongside grandparents. mnth.ly/t1FEiU5
Lessons from Bondi
Many questions are being asked after the Bondi Beach shootings, and the hardest ones to address are the most important for our nation’s wellbeing
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December 19, 2025 at 7:29 AM
It was an act of terror carried out by people who chose violence against an innocent community. At a festival of light, where children were playing alongside grandparents. mnth.ly/t1FEiU5
Sunday was no accident; it was deliberate. It was targeted. Planned. Trained for. mnth.ly/12THQpK
Lessons from Bondi
Many questions are being asked after the Bondi Beach shootings, and the hardest ones to address are the most important for our nation’s wellbeing
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December 19, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Sunday was no accident; it was deliberate. It was targeted. Planned. Trained for. mnth.ly/12THQpK
Grief comes from tragedy, but Sunday’s terror attack was not a tragic accident. It was the nightmare that Jewish Australians had been warning about, and hoping would never happen. mnth.ly/R9jIyiv
Lessons from Bondi
Many questions are being asked after the Bondi Beach shootings, and the hardest ones to address are the most important for our nation’s wellbeing
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December 19, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Grief comes from tragedy, but Sunday’s terror attack was not a tragic accident. It was the nightmare that Jewish Australians had been warning about, and hoping would never happen. mnth.ly/R9jIyiv
Yesterday, I walked through the streets of Bondi. You could feel the eerie and solemn silence. mnth.ly/j3GvNkF
Lessons from Bondi
Many questions are being asked after the Bondi Beach shootings, and the hardest ones to address are the most important for our nation’s wellbeing
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December 19, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Yesterday, I walked through the streets of Bondi. You could feel the eerie and solemn silence. mnth.ly/j3GvNkF
Coincidentally, in the same year that the Reeds arrived at Heide, record floods deposited indigenous seeds from undisturbed tracts upstream. The seeds lodged in the river’s inundated banks and slowly bade their time among the foreign tree roots. mnth.ly/6G5Z2D8
Down to the waterline: Yaluk Langa at Heide museum
Landscape rehabilitation on the Yarra riverbank has united exotic and endemic species in a thoughtfully modern reflection of Country
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December 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Coincidentally, in the same year that the Reeds arrived at Heide, record floods deposited indigenous seeds from undisturbed tracts upstream. The seeds lodged in the river’s inundated banks and slowly bade their time among the foreign tree roots. mnth.ly/6G5Z2D8