June 2020
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
What do we really know about the growing presence of Google, Apple, Microsoft and more in the education system?
George Dickson’s minor act of rebellion, and the state’s major overreach
The Nation Reviewed
Facing a historic isolation of a different kind, what next for our migrant nation?
The royal commission’s damning verdict on what Pell knew about child sexual abuse in the Church
How Port Douglas, the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree, has been quieted by lockdown
Uber Eats first case at the Fair Work Commission exposed a gap in the gig economy’s protection of workers
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
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’
‘The End of October’ by Lawrence Wright A ‘New Yorker’ journalist’s eerily prescient novel about public-health officials fighting a runaway pandemic
In Light of Recent Events
By Oslo Davis
The world according to @CraigDark2Light, influential conspiracy theorist and recent anti-lockdown campaigner.
