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Bill Shorten: between fear and ideas

The Opposition leader talks about the road ahead for Labor


The Latest

A French Western? Jacques Audiard on ‘The Sisters Brothers’

Culture

The celebrated director explains how he made a Hollywood staple his own

Burnside v Frydenberg

Today

The Greens are mounting a serious challenge in Kooyong

A showcase of the unexceptional: the 2019 Berlin Film Festival

Culture

This year’s offerings did little to arrest the event’s apparent decline

Christopher Pyne more than another deserter

Politics

The fixer’s retirement signals the demise of the Liberal Party’s moderate faction

Streaming highlights: February 2019

Culture

Adolescent antiheroes in ‘Sex Education’ and ‘Pen15’, Eric Bana shines darkly in ‘Dirty John’, new ‘Counterpart’, and the irreverent charm of ‘Russian Doll’

The Monthly music wrap: February 2019

Culture

On the precarious state of live music in NSW and the impact of proposed festival-licensing laws


The Nation Reviewed

Trains, pains and Berejiklian

Will a big infrastructure spend help or hinder NSW’s Coalition government this election?

Tuckshop intervention

How did buying lunch in a Northern Territory school get so complicated?

Screen addiction

As more of our lives are lived online, more people aren’t coping

Ben Quilty in bleeding colour

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



Noted

‘Zebra and Other Stories’ by Debra Adelaide Difficult-to-grasp characters populate this new collection By Helen Elliott

‘Exploded View’ by Carrie Tiffany This new novel is most striking in how it diverges from its predecessors By Adam Rivett


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