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Pressed pause

Today

Today’s COVID-19 modelling leaves Australia locked down for Easter

Knight to rook 3

Culture

Remembering Max von Sydow, the greatest actor of his generation

Whitefella visits Kurnell

Society

A Botany Bay ferry would restore Cook’s landing site as a ‘meeting place’

Oversight plight?

Today

On balance, the parliament should sit through the pandemic response

House of brief

Politics

Limiting parliamentary sittings is limiting our democracy

Twilight knowing: Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather’

Culture

The American novelist brings literary fiction’s focus on the interior life to climate-change cataclysm


Inside the Nationals

As the National Party celebrates its centenary, its future is in the hands of bitter rivals Michael McCormack and Barnaby Joyce




The Monthly Essays

Inside the Nationals

As the National Party celebrates its centenary, its future is in the hands of bitter rivals Michael McCormack and Barnaby Joyce

Super heroes or super villains?

How the secretive trillionaire superannuation funds are using your money to reshape capitalism


The Nation Reviewed

A month of plague

Voices from the coronavirus outbreak

Whitefella visits Kurnell

A Botany Bay ferry would restore Cook’s landing site as a ‘meeting place’

Slow work

Neighbours and friends rebuilding communities after the bushfires

Read after burning

Do the great philosophers offer guidance for disaster recovery?


VOX

Powerlessness

What can children before God learn about parenthood from the Psalms?

Three disasters, a wedding and a funeral

Reckoning with family in times of drought, fire and flood


Arts & Letters

Desert bloom: The Tennant Creek Brio

The brazen art movement born out of the troubled legacies of substance abuse and dispossession

Twilight knowing: Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather’

The American novelist brings literary fiction’s focus on the interior life to climate-change cataclysm

Properly British: Armando Iannucci’s ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’

A multicultural vision underscores the acclaimed British satirist’s endearing Dickensian romp

Grime boss: Stormzy

The rapper and MC’s second album ‘Heavy Is the Head’ is another triumphant step bringing black British culture forward



Noted

‘Strange Hotel’ by Eimear McBride A woman unceasingly travels to contend with the inertia of grief, in the latest novel from the author of ‘A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing’ By Stephanie Bishop

‘Actress’ by Anne Enright In a theatre setting, the masterly Irish writer considers the melting, capricious line between the truth and the fake By Helen Elliott


In Light of Recent Events

Souvenirs and trinkets from your 14-day self-quarantine

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