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The Morrison election: What we know now

Why did low-income voters turn to the Coalition while wealthy urbanites voted Labor?


The Latest

Hate speech vs free speech

Today

The Coalition is being hypocritical

Reconciliation, Kwaio style

Society

The end of a century-old enmity between Australia and a Solomon Islands community

The aftermath

Politics

What is the lesson of Labor’s cautionary tale?

An obscure celebration of ‘Disintegration’

Culture

The Cure at the Sydney Opera House, Vivid LIVE, May 27, 2019

Streaming highlights: May 2019

Culture

‘When They See Us’ and ‘Catch-22’ examine flawed institutions, ‘Dead to Me’ astutely studies the living, and ‘Fleabag’ makes a must-see return

Ticked off

Society

Being bitten by a tick just got a whole lot stranger




The Monthly Essays

The Morrison election: What we know now

Why did low-income voters turn to the Coalition while wealthy urbanites voted Labor?

Family feud

A firsthand view of the nation’s new political faultlines

The lie of ‘responsible gambling’

Australia’s world-beating gambling addiction and the deception hiding it

The case of the bouncy castle bombings

An arson spree and a missing party-hire boss




The Nation Reviewed

2019 election: The shock of the new normal

Why Morrison’s victory shouldn’t have surprised the major parties

Hate speech isn’t freedom of speech

Australia’s debate over free speech online must go beyond Israel Folau

Aged-care in crisis

Stories of neglect and abuse from the royal commission

At home in the Antarctic

The screenwriters living with the crew of Mawson station


Vox

Vanishing voices

The cultural damage of homogenising language

Owl

Arts & Letters

The chthonic realms explored in Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Underland’

Cave systems, mines, urban sewers, mycelial networks, moulins and more

A master’s misstep: Claire Denis’ ‘High Life’

The French auteur chooses a sci-fi film to start over-explaining things

Seoul trained: K-pop and Blackpink

Trying to find meaning in the carefully formulated culture of K-pop



Noted

‘Animalia’ by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo The French author delivers a pastoral that turns on human cruelty By Helen Elliott

‘The Essential Duchamp’ at the Art Gallery of NSW A comprehensive exhibition of the 20th-century’s most influential artist By Miriam Cosic

‘Assembly’ by Angelica Mesiti at Venice Biennale The democratic ideal is explored in the Australian Pavilion’s video installation By Julie Ewington


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