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The campaign to repair the single parenting payment was a model of how research and advocacy can push government to face the cruel effects of a policy and change course
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The laureate of the Western Australian surf break sees a task ahead for our essayists, our novelists and our poets alike in the fight against climate catastrophe
The lost opportunity of the Voice referendum revealed Australians’ poor understanding of the Constitution, and the level of racism in the community
What kind of year has it been?
Was 2023 – beyond the referendum calamity – a year of government timidity or a demonstration of its ability to keep the national conversation on course?
The campaign to repair the single parenting payment was a model of how research and advocacy can push government to face the cruel effects of a policy and change course
As Labor’s fortunes “nosedive”, it is time for Anthony Albanese to step up
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How Indigenous seasonal knowledge can fight the fires to come
Thousands of years of lived experience informs Indigenous understanding of Australia’s true seasons, offering many advantages over a four-season cycle imported from Europe.
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Animal welfare concerns have long plagued the greyhound racing industry, but in Victoria a campaign from covert investigators now has a parliamentarian leading the fight
With the Ranger Uranium Mine now closed, Kakadu’s traditional owners want the government to make good on the original promise of a national park in their care
The laureate of the Western Australian surf break sees a task ahead for our essayists, our novelists and our poets alike in the fight against climate catastrophe
Taiwan’s minority indigenous peoples are being used to refute mainland China’s claims on the island – but what does that mean for their recognition, land rights and identity?
From stepping away from tennis as a youth before returning to dominate Wimbledon and the Australian Open, to retiring as world No. 1 at the age of 25, Ash Barty has always owned her career path
The unsung career of Margret RoadKnight
Little-known outside the Melbourne folk scene for decades, singer Margret RoadKnight’s 60 years of music-making is celebrated in a new compilation
Guarding the power of the court in our democracy
The hidden forces agitating at highest levels to undermine judicial independence
Korean folklore comes to Western Sydney in ‘Night Bloomers’
Plus, the infamous 1970s London haunting is recreated in ‘The Enfield Poltergeist’, queer ghost hunters unite in ‘Living for the Dead’, and more
What kind of year has it been?
Was 2023 – beyond the referendum calamity – a year of government timidity or a demonstration of its ability to keep the national conversation on course?
The lost opportunity of the Voice referendum revealed Australians’ poor understanding of the Constitution, and the level of racism in the community
Reviving the Viking mission’s experiments may yet find life as we know it on Mars, but the best outcome would be something truly alien
The local debut of the SXSW film, TV, music and tech fair is a sign the road to Hollywood now runs in both directions
How a lockdown whim turned into a discovery of the purifying power of sea swimming
![Emily Kam Kngwarray, Anmatyerr people, not titled [detail], 1981](http://web.archive.org./web/20231127165258im_/https://www.themonthly.com.au/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_medium_2x/public/Sprague_1223_1140x700.jpg?itok=4uF8EJ_Y "Emily Kam Kngwarray, Anmatyerr people, not titled [detail], 1981")
A clear view: Emily Kam Kngwarray at the NGA
A major exhibition of the late Anmatyerr desert painter is welcome, but the influence of the rapacious art market on Aboriginal art is inescapable
The rule of threes: NGV Triennial
The sprawling show’s exploration of technologies and pressing politics takes in artificial intelligence and deep-fake photojournalism
The celebrated American author’s latest book, ‘The Vulnerables’, completes a loose trilogy of hybrid autobiographical and fictional novels
Modern Prometheans: ‘Poor Things’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’
Emma Stone seeks a moral conscience in Yorgos Lanthimos’s upended Frankenstein grotesque, while Andrew Haigh delivers a metaphysical coming-out story
Richard Flanagan's ‘Question 7’
A slim volume of big ideas that takes in H.G. Wells, chain reaction, Hiroshima and the author’s near-death experience on the Franklin River
Nathan Fielder directs and co-stars in an erratic comedy about the performative benevolence of a couple creating a social housing reality TV show
The author is challenged on the privilege of the progressive, egalitarian ideals of her ‘multicultural’ generation
Lachlan Murdoch’s first big move
Host of Schwartz Media podcast Rupert: The Last Mogul and contributor to The Saturday Paper, Paddy Manning, on what’s in store for the next era of the Murdoch empire.
HOST Ange McCormack
GUEST Paddy Manning
How Australia is taking advantage of one nation’s climate crisis
National correspondent for The Saturday Paper Mike Seccombe, on the agreement between Australia and Tuvalu.
HOST Ange McCormack
GUEST Mike Seccombe
Gabrielle Zevin Wants to Talk About Failure
Michael sits down with author Gabrielle Zevin for a wide-ranging discussion about collaboration, creativity, ambition and failure in her new book, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.
HOST Michael Williams
GUEST Gabrielle Zevin