March 2006
WORLD
Comment
Gideon Haigh
This month, Australia celebrates the sesquicentenary of its system of the secret ballot, the so-called ‘Australian ballot’, which swept and...
More ...The Joy of Sport
John Harms
Manning Clark, historian, writer and lover of the Carlton Football Club, was convinced that sport mattered in Australia. “Football,” he...
More ...SOCIETY
Highway Robbery
Andrew McMillan
Early one morning, when he was running Three Ways Roadhouse at the lonesome junction of the Stuart and Barkly highways in the Northern...
More ...A Short History of Pyromania
Edward Scheer
Clare is in tears. She has lost the farm where she grew up in the foothills of the Grampians. Not only that, but the farm next door went,...
More ...POLITICS
Little America: How John Howard has Changed Australia
Robert Manne
The meaning of John Howard’s ten years as Prime Minister of Australia – how Australia has been changed, how the era will eventually be seen...
More ...SOCIETY
The Tall Man: Inside Palm Island's Heart of Darkness
Chloe Hooper
Travelling to Palm Island is like a sequence from a dream: the pale green sea seems so luminous and so fecund, and the plane flies so close...
More ...CULTURE
The Narcissist and The Psychopath: Bennett Miller's 'Capote'
Helen Garner
The trailer of Bennett Miller’s Capote might give one the idea that it’s just Philip Seymour Hoffman doing a ferocious impersonation of the...
More ...CULTURE
The Multiple Lives of a Muse: Carolyn Burke's 'Lee Miller'
Drusilla Modjeska
Vogue model turned photographer, bobbed muse of Man Ray and ‘unofficial’ surrealist, Lee Miller makes a challenge to her biographer that is...
More ...CULTURE
Worms Don't Dance: Cat Power’s 'The Greatest' and Beth Orton’s 'Comfort of Strangers'
Robert Forster
To release an album in January or early February is, sometimes, to make a statement. There are two blocks of the year when most records...
More ...CULTURE
Ismail Kadare’s The Successor
Simon Caterson
“It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Winston Churchill’s assessment of Russia in 1939 applies equally to the Albania of...
More ...'Voyage and Landfall: The Art of Jan Senbergs' by Patrick McCaughey
Justin Clemens
Coffee-table books about artists – especially when the artist is still alive – are an odd genre. Caught between biography and criticism,...
More ...Television programming: Channel 7; Channel 9; Channel 10
Kerryn Goldsworthy
These days even the most unsophisticated punter knows that when a TV station advises that a regular program will be shown ‘at the special...
More ...
ENVIRONMENT
Malcolm Fraser & Galarrwuy Yunupingu
Both were princes in their own lands.One was a scion of the squattocracy, the only son of a wealthy grazier and the grandson of a...
More ...
Twitter
@THEMONTHLY @SLOWTV
