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Transforming the national imagination: The ‘Dark Emu’ debate
WEBJul 1, 2021 · It is strange that, for someone with Tasmanian Aboriginal ancestry, Bruce Pascoe largely ignores Tasmania when reimagining pre-conquest Aboriginal life in his publishing sensation, Dark Emu. It is difficult to know how Pascoe would depict ancestors who shared few of the technologies he celebrates as markers of …
Terri Butler’s rise through the rancour - The Monthly
WEBMay 1, 2019 · Terri Butler has a soul. If that seems metaphysically self-evident, it can’t be taken for granted among current MPs. Labor’s successor to Kevin Rudd in the Brisbane electorate of Griffith is an unapologetic nerd. She has publicly confessed to playing oboe in high school plus obsessions with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Marvel comic books and punk rock, boasting in her memoir that progressives ...
Arthur Calwell & Peter Kocan - The Monthly
WEBAug 1, 2007 · Peter Kocan was a casebook disturbed loner. Fatherless, disadvantaged and victimised, he left school at 14 and drifted though a series of menial jobs. On 21 June, he entered the Mosman Town Hall with a .22 hidden under his overcoat, mingled with the crowd and approached Calwell just as he was being driven away.
August 2021 - The Monthly
WEBAugust 2021eBook. EssaysThe Nation ReviewedVoxArts & LettersNotedCartoon. Essays. Law and order. The end game. Scott Ludlam. WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is slowly dying in a UK prison, as the US maintains its fight to have him die in theirs – but there is hope. Health. A trip to the doctor.
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 …
The edge of their seats - The Monthly
WEBJul 1, 2022 · In the picturesque town of Kiama on the south coast of New South Wales you can find the Kiama Blowhole, arguably the town’s most notable tourist attraction. Approximately 260 million years ago, basalt lava flows formed both the hole and the underground chamber beneath it. Pressure builds up in the chamber and then, when the waves subside, it pushes water up through the blowhole.
The Russell Street Bomber in the High Court
WEBOn March 27, 1986, a metallic brown ’79 Holden Commodore with fawn side panels was parked outside the Russell Street police headquarters, in Melbourne’s CBD, loaded with 60 sticks of gelignite and detonators. In the explosion that followed, 21-year-old Constable Angela Taylor suffered severe burns.
The scourge of state capture - The Monthly
WEBFeb 1, 2022 · According to the World Bank, “state capture is the exercise of power by private actors – through control over resources, threat of violence, or other forms of influence – to shape policies or implementation in service of their narrow interest”. State capture is the common thread that unites these random examples, joining the dots into ...
The future of the Liberal Party - The Monthly
WEBJul 1, 2022 · Thanks for reading this free article. There is nowhere quite like The Monthly.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.
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