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Building back better?

Today

The government’s pandemic response is taking a familiar shape

Surrounded by pygmies: Malcolm Turnbull’s ‘A Bigger Picture’

Culture

The former PM’s memoir fails to reckon with his fatal belief that all Australians shared his vision

An unavoidable recession

Today

The pandemic got us in, the treasurer must get us out

The screens that ate school

Society

What do we really know about the growing presence of Google, Apple, Microsoft and more in the education system?

Black Lives Matter

Today

Australia should draw lessons from the riots in the US

Moral bankruptcy

Politics

Robodebt stemmed from the false ideological division between the deserving and undeserving poor, but the government still clings to moralistic language


The screens that ate school

What do we really know about the growing presence of Google, Apple, Microsoft and more in the education system?




The Monthly Essays

The screens that ate school

What do we really know about the growing presence of Google, Apple, Microsoft and more in the education system?

The Aquarian ‘terrorist’

George Dickson’s minor act of rebellion, and the state’s major overreach


The Nation Reviewed

The new tyranny of distance

Facing a historic isolation of a different kind, what next for our migrant nation?

The last word on George Pell

The royal commission’s damning verdict on what Pell knew about child sexual abuse in the Church

Tour de forced cancellations

How Port Douglas, the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree, has been quieted by lockdown

Wage deals on wheels

Uber Eats first case at the Fair Work Commission exposed a gap in the gig economy’s protection of workers

Call for submissions

Hands-off operations for sex-work dungeons in the time of COVID


Arts & Letters

Surrounded by pygmies: Malcolm Turnbull’s ‘A Bigger Picture’

The former PM’s memoir fails to reckon with his fatal belief that all Australians shared his vision

Her too: ‘The Assistant’

Melbourne-born, New York–based filmmaker Kitty Green’s powerfully underplayed portrait of Hollywood’s abusive culture

Snap-back: Dua Lipa’s ‘Future Nostalgia’

The British singer’s serendipitous album delivers shining pop with a reigning attitude of fortitude



Noted

‘The Trials of Portnoy’ by Patrick Mullins The finely detailed story of the legal fight in Australia against the censorship of Philip Roth’s ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’ By Sean O’Beirne

‘The End of October’ by Lawrence Wright A ‘New Yorker’ journalist’s eerily prescient novel about public-health officials fighting a runaway pandemic By Helen Elliott


In Light of Recent Events

The world according to @CraigDark2Light, influential conspiracy theorist and recent anti-lockdown campaigner.

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