What happened to broadband in Australia?
NBN Co’s former CEO on how the Coalition broke the internet
What happened to broadband in Australia?
NBN Co’s former CEO on how the Coalition broke the internet
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The Monthly music wrap: February 2019
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‘Manus’: troubling and obligatory viewing
An Iranian play brings stories of Australia’s offshore detention centres to the Adelaide Festival
Cardinal to appeal verdict on child sexual abuse charges ... the fallout begins
The Nation Reviewed
Will a big infrastructure spend help or hinder NSW’s Coalition government this election?
How did buying lunch in a Northern Territory school get so complicated?
As more of our lives are lived online, more people aren’t coping
The Australian artist opens up on the eve of a retrospective exhibition
The Monthly Essays
Bill Shorten: between fear and ideas
The Opposition leader talks about the road ahead for Labor
What happened to broadband in Australia?
NBN Co’s former CEO on how the Coalition broke the internet
Chasing the miracle of gene therapy
For Megan Donnell’s family, the DNA-altering revolution cannot come soon enough
Arts & Letters
Rats, heroes and Kevin Rudd’s ‘The PM Years’
This memoir answers some questions about his deposal and return but raises others
Tracking time: Gerald Murnane’s ‘A Season on Earth’
Forty years on, the author’s second novel is reunited with its lost half
A French Western? Jacques Audiard on ‘The Sisters Brothers’
The celebrated director explains how he made a Hollywood staple his own
Clicks, plinks, hoots and thuds: Matmos’s ‘Plastic Anniversary’
The American experimental duo embrace the ‘sounds’ of a ubiquitous material
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‘Zebra and Other Stories’ by Debra Adelaide Difficult-to-grasp characters populate this new collection
‘Exploded View’ by Carrie Tiffany This new novel is most striking in how it diverges from its predecessors
In-depth analysis of the moments that define the day from Paddy Manning.
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