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Border farce

Today

So much for the national plan

A bloody shame: Paid period leave should be law

Society

Australia’s workplace laws must better accommodate the reproductive body

The cult of Gladys Berejiklian

Politics

What explains the hero-worship of the former NSW premier?

‘Bodies of Light’ by Jennifer Down

Culture

The Australian author’s latest novel, dissecting trauma, fails to realise its epic ambitions

Artful lodgers: The Heide Museum of Modern Art

Culture

The story of John and Sunday Reed’s influence on Sidney Nolan and other live-in protégés

The search for extraterrestrial minds

Society

That we understand the nature of the cosmos has profound implications in the search for life


The search for extraterrestrial minds

That we understand the nature of the cosmos has profound implications in the search for life

The Monthly Essays

War of error

US failures in Afghanistan and the folly of Australia’s unquestioning support

Drama in hell

The descent of creative arts at Australia’s universities

The search for extraterrestrial minds

That we understand the nature of the cosmos has profound implications in the search for life




The Nation Reviewed

We need to think about post-lockdown rights

Lacking serious debate on the next stage of the pandemic, Australia is ill-prepared

Close to home for Katy Gallagher

Life in quarantine as COVID-19 hits Senator Katy Gallagher’s family

A loss of character

Remembering some of Sydney’s well-known streetfolk


Vox

Helen Garner’s lockdown diaries, 2021

Notes from Melbourne as the pandemic persists

Owl

Arts & Letters

Artful lodgers: The Heide Museum of Modern Art

The story of John and Sunday Reed’s influence on Sidney Nolan and other live-in protégés

An eye on the outlier: ‘Nitram’

Justin Kurzel’s biopic of the Port Arthur killer is a warning on suburban neglect and gun control

The life solipsistic: ‘The French Dispatch’

Wes Anderson’s film about a New Yorker–style magazine is simultaneously trivial and exhausting



Noted

‘Bewilderment’ by Richard Powers The Pulitzer winner’s open-hearted reworking of Flowers for Algernon, updated for modern times By Adam Rivett


In Light of Recent Events

“Where are they?”