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The best way to honour our murdered countrymen is to speak out against the death penalty
By Nick Dyrenfurth on the
How and why we remember a century-old war is as important as how we react to the overnight executions in Indonesia
By Malcolm Farnsworth on the
What’s behind Bjorn Lomborg’s job at the University of WA?
By Mungo MacCallum on the
On the Mediterranean, refugees are still fleeing the legacy of last century’s wars
By Chips Mackinolty on the
By Nick Feik on the
When the Monthly’s publisher, Morry Schwartz, launched the magazine in 2005, he insisted that its success would rest on the quality of its writing. The Monthly isn’t pitted against other politics and current affairs magazines any more; our old competitors no longer exist. We now appear in the “general” category on...
The huge mistakes of the big rating agencies have not damaged their business model
By Satyajit Das on the
Alex Ross Perry’s ‘Listen Up Philip’ and Noah Baumbach’s ‘While We’re Young’
By Anwen Crawford on the
Tony Abbott was right that fear and greed shape Australian attitudes to China
By Mungo MacCallum on the
An extract from ‘Between You & Me: Confessions of a comma queen’
By Mary Norris on the
More women are choosing to freeze their eggs for later pregnancy
By Sofija Stefanovic on the
The Swiss Franc crisis
By Satyajit Das on the
By Aicha Marhfour on the
Pierre Morel’s ‘The Gunman’ reviewed
By Harry Windsor on the
On opinion polls and other props of political theatre
By Malcolm Farnsworth on the
An encounter with the former High Court justice
By Chips Mackinolty on the
The rise of the launch-your-own political party
By Elle Hardy on the
What exactly is our navy for? Not even the top brass seem to know
By Claire Corbett on the
Mad as hell and not going to take it anymore? There’s an app for that
By James Robert Douglas on the

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