Australian politics, society & culture

The Monthly Essays

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Paul Kelly’s wild years
Leaps and bounds
By Richard Guilliatt
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Illustration by Jeff Fisher.
‘Welcome to Your New Life’ book extract
Vox
By Anna Goldsworthy
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Mural at Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre. © Dean Sewell / Oculi
Australia’s shipwrecked refugee policy
Tragedy of Errors
By Robert Manne
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© Karen Kasmauski / National Geographic Stock
Fat City: What can stop obesity?
By Karen Hitchcock
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Ian Macdonald. © John Grainger / Newspix
Mate of the Union
How to corrupt a party
By Mark Aarons
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Illustration by Jeff Fisher.
Bonfire of sole
By John Bryson
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Illustration by Jeff Fisher.
An expatriate returns
By Sheila Fitzpatrick
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Show day
By Cate Kennedy
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Illustration by Jeff Fisher.
Death in Brunswick
By Helen Garner
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Illustration by Jeff Fisher.
Leaving 'Tracks' behind
By Robyn Davidson
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Quarterly Essay 47, 'Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott' by David Marr, Black Inc., 140pp; $19.95
Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott
By David Marr
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A ceremonial sunset aboard the HMAS 'Manoora' off Vanuatu in 2006. © Commonwealth of Australia
A Middling Power: Why Australia's defence is all at sea
By Hugh White
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Obama's election day cheer squad, Harlem, New York, 4 November 2008. © Ingvar Kenne
Waiting for Barack
The improbable president
By Peter Conrad
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Supreme Court Judges in full regalia. © Penny Stephens/Fairfax Syndication
The Work of Judges
Tough-on-crime advocates all rise
By Kate Rossmanith
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A boat moored on Ballarat's Lake Wendouree in 2007. © Ian Kenins
How vested interests defeated climate science
A Dark Victory
By Robert Manne
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A young boy in Dalworth Children's Home at Seaforth, NSW, in the 1920s. Image courtesy of the State Library of NSW. Photograph: Sam Hood
The Forgotten Ones
Half a million lost childhoods
By Christine Kenneally
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Small Fry
The story of a people smuggler
By Ruth Balint
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Gough Whitlam and Richard Nixon in the Oval Office, 30 July 1973. © Richard Nixon Library and Museum
How Whitlam rattled the ANZUS alliance
Dear Mr President
By James Curran
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