February 2009
POLITICS
The Global Financial Crisis
Kevin Rudd
There is a sense that we are now living through just such a time: barely a decade into the new millennium, barely 20 years since the end of...
More ...WORLD
'The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty' by Peter Singer
Chris Middendorp
Peter Singer is a public intellectual par excellence; he takes complex philosophical notions and relates them directly to the general...
More ...WORLD
'Outliers: The Story of Success' by Malcolm Gladwell
Zora Simic
Perhaps by virtue of his own accomplishments, Malcolm Gladwell - author of bestsellers The Tipping Point and Blink, writer for the New...
More ...SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Numismatics
Clive James
Merely a planchet waiting to be struck,The poem shapes up but is not a coinUntil, by craft, and then again by luck,He fashions clean...
More ...Statesman
John Bryson
Tiptoe, to cast his shadow faras once he could,now readied for the cameraat short notice;speech notes: triumphs of his era;smiting...
More ...CULTURE
Mind / Body : Mike Parr’s Cartesian Corpse
Daniel Thomas
To know or not to know anything in advance about an artist's work? That is the question for art curators. They hope the artworks they...
More ...Poetry
Nature Boy: Antony and the Johnsons’ The Crying Light
Robert Forster
Four years ago, while on a promotional tour for the last Go-Betweens record, I came across Antony and the Johnsons' second album. I was in...
More ...CULTURE
Life Inside: Laurent Cantet’s The Class
Luke Davies
In the staff room at the beginning of a school year, François (François Bégaudeau), a French teacher at a Parisian middle school, chats...
More ...CULTURE
Unhappy Families: Sonya Hartnett’s 'Butterfly'
Craig Sherborne
If we didn't have childhoods we'd be much better people. We'd start out as grown-ups innocent as lambs. We wouldn't have behind us all...
More ...SOCIETY
The Comeback Kid: Eddie Perfect’s 'Shane Warne: The Musical'
Gideon Haigh
Consider these three vignettes from the storied life of Shane Warne, involving something that happened, then something that didn't, then...
More ...SOCIETY
Boxing for Palm Island
Chloe Hooper
Ten years ago, Ray Dennis found himself out of work. Each day he made more home-brew and started killing himself drinking it. Then he...
More ...SOCIETY
Gone with the Wind: An Australian Fiasco
Peter Conrad
By now all those questions have had the same dismal answer. The few grudgingly favourable reviews Australia received chose to be amused by...
More ...
SOCIETY
Looking Sheepish
Alice Pung
"Sheep's placenta for the face is all the rage among Chinese women," my father said. All his mainland-Chinese friends told him that this...
More ...
SOCIETY
Representing
Jo Lennan
Justice Michael Kirby was jet-lagged. He was just off the red-eye after a trip overseas for UNAIDS work and speaking engagements, and small...
More ...Open Market
Cate Kennedy
Once Kevin Rudd's $10.4-billion bonus found its way into Australians' bank accounts, malls and mega-marts across the land were reportedly...
More ...
SOCIETY
Backyard Blitz
John van Tiggelen
When Tony Gibbins comes knocking, you know you've messed up. Gibbins is the Unsightly Properties Officer with the Loddon Shire Council. It...
More ...Comment: Public Goods & Pipe Organs
John Hirst
If a town hall has an organ should it also have an official town-hall organist? I thought I took a wide interest in public affairs but...
More ...
ECONOMICS
Helena Rubinstein & the Merino
More than a century after the event, it remains unclear exactly why Chaja Rubinstein, 23, fled her native Poland and took lodgings with her...
More ...
The Shortlist Daily
7 February 2012
Twitter
@THEMONTHLY @SLOWTV
