Children of the intervention - The Monthly
Oct 1, 2024 · “They did this, not us!” It’s what Aunty Pat Ansell Dodds tells me in the living room of her small flat on the west side of Alice Springs. She is a gentle woman, 76 years old and grandmother to 12. She’s an accomplished and recognised artist – her work has been projected onto the Sydney Opera House. She is a lecturer and a guardian to generations of children on the streets of the ...
The Monthly | Australian politics, society & culture
Australian politics, society & culture. Noni chats with Michael about her new memoir, Dropping the Mask, where she reclaims a lifetime in the public eye and shares it back on the page.
Walking on water: During a week staying at the Whitlam family …
Dec 1, 2024 · A friend posts a photograph on Facebook of Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke, Mick Young and Eric Walsh by an outdoor pool. The men wear speedos, their bronzed bodies blend into the pebblestone ground and beige brick outhouse behind them. Whitlam smiles uncharacteristically coyly in the foreground. In the comments someone suggests the scene is the Chevron Hotel at Surfers Paradise in ’73 or ’74.
Standing on ceremony | The Monthly
Dec 1, 2024 · There was something frenzied about Senator Lidia Thorpe’s performance at the reception for King Charles III in Parliament House, and it was not Senator Thorpe. For the Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung politician, the display was predictable – you could set your watch to it. Thorpe’s interjections were not revelatory or novel, despite the columns of fawning progressive sentiment about ...
‘Territory’ | The Monthly
Nov 1, 2024 · If you live in urban Australia and have never had to wrestle a crocodile or fend off a disgruntled kangaroo, you might be surprised by the extent to which the rest of the world defines this country in relation to its dangerous animals. Figures such as Steve Irwin and Lindy Chamberlain loom large in the global imagination, perpetuating the belief that each day Down Under presents a fresh ...
September 2024 - The Monthly
This year’s Booker longlist includes Rachel Kushner’s sharply funny activist thriller and Percival Everett’s revisit of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ from the slave Jim’s perspective
Down at the rail: Helen Garner’s ‘The Season’ | The Monthly
Dec 1, 2024 · Riding the boundary line between personal reflection, fiction and journalism has long been a feature of Helen Garner’s work, to great effect. She is one of our most honest authors, always willing to share, to lay herself bare to make sense of the story she’s telling. One of the most wrenching moments in her 2014 book on the Robert Farquharson court case, This House of Grief, came when ...
An imagined life: David Malouf - The Monthly
Mar 1, 2024 · If a man can be said to be made by his place – and a place starts with the sounds, smells and colours known by the body, and extends to the family and state known by the heart and mind – then Queensland is David Malouf’s maker. But how to reconcile this writer with this place? How to reconcile an education that gave him Latin, the English classics and an ability to parse a sentence as ...
Tim Winton’s Got the Juice - The Monthly
It is more or less impossible to imagine Australian literature of the past half century without Tim Winton. From his debut, An Open Swimmer to his epic Cloudstreet, the four-time Miles Franklin Award winner is beloved by generations of readers. This week, Michael sits down with Tim to discuss his latest novel, Juice, a gripping tale of determination, survival, and the …
October 2024 | The Monthly
Ten critics nominate their cultural highlights of the year, taking in theatre, visual art, books, dance, festivals and a YouTube miniaturist