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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?
Tacita Dean and the poetics of film editing
The MCA’s survey of the British-born artist’s work reveals both the luminosity of analogue film and its precariousness
David McBride’s guilty plea and the need for whistleblower reform
The former army lawyer had no choice but to plead guilty, which goes to show how desperately we need better whistleblower protections
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
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
Tacita Dean and the poetics of film editing
The MCA’s survey of the British-born artist’s work reveals both the luminosity of analogue film and its precariousness
David McBride’s guilty plea and the need for whistleblower reform
The former army lawyer had no choice but to plead guilty, which goes to show how desperately we need better whistleblower protections
The exhibition of the Russian painter’s work at the Art Gallery of NSW provides a fascinating view of 20th-century art’s leap from representation to abstraction
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
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/20231209175052im_/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
Australia is being toxic about immigrants again
Contributing editor of The Politics for The Monthly online, Rachel Withers, on how parliament ended the year on ugly scenes.
HOST Ange McCormack
GUEST Rachel Withers
Max Porter’s Freight Is Proportioned to His Groove
Max Porter shares the piece of writing that changed his life and reveals why every single time he thinks about it, its power renews itself like a rechargeable battery.
HOST Michael Williams
GUEST Max Porter
Joe Biden's five 'noes' in the Israel-Hamas war
Middle East correspondent for The Economist Gregg Carlstrom, on the reality of the war since the ceasefire ended.
HOST Ange McCormack
GUEST Gregg Carlstrom