Australian politics, society & culture

The Monthly Essays

The Perth Freight Link: Stranger than fiction
The WA state election could end one of the country’s most controversial infrastructure projects
By David Whish-Wilson
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Image of Aurora Australis alongside Totten glacier
The Totten hots up
A major Antarctic glacier is becoming dangerously unstable
By Jo Chandler
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Business as usual?
The confused case for corporate gender equality
By Cordelia Fine
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Image of Malmsbury Youth Justice Centre
Call for backup
How authorities lost control of juvenile detention
By Russell Marks
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The science question and feminism
STEM is the future, and women need to be part of it
By Margaret Wertheim
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The character business
What does the deluge of political biography and memoir say about politicians and readers?
By Mark McKenna
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The new black
The overworked, underpaid, cash-in-hand worker is becoming increasingly common
By Ann Arnold
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Arrested development
James Packer has been down, but he’s not out
By Richard Cooke
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The art of biography
The author stays out of the picture, and other personal rules of writing
By David Marr
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A pox on both your houses
How can the major parties address the rise of populism in Australia?
By Andrew Charlton and Lachlan Harris
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Green fields and blue sky
Is Nick Cleary’s ambitious CLARA project the answer to Australia’s fast-rail question?
By Paddy Manning
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Duterte’s dirty war
A trip to the Philippines reveals the human cost of the war on drugs
By Margaret Simons
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Image of a Trump campaign rally in Michigan
The second coming
The politics of rage won’t let us listen to one another
By Christos Tsiolkas
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Rough times
Homelessness has reached crisis levels in Melbourne and Sydney
By Paul Connolly
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Image of the Condamine River on fire
Feeding  the  beast
Billion-dollar burnouts keep emissions rising
By Richard Denniss
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Bonfire of  the narratives
How did American democracy come to this?
By Richard Cooke
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Geert by sea
It took two weeks and endless bureaucracy to honour a dying wish
By Claire Konkes
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James Lovatt
A game theory
Lovatts Crosswords gave its profits to employees. What went wrong?
By Richard Cooke
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