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Hashtag feminism

By Robyn Annear
“Do you want to know how God turns a man into a feminist?” asked Margie Abbott, addressing a business gathering in Penrith (the God-struck man in question being her husband, the federal Opposition leader). “He gives him three daughters.” I don’t believe it. My father dismissed women as sluts, nags, idiots and upstarts – all except me, whom he loved to th
April 2013

A Letter to the Editor, from Joe Dolce

By Monthly Wire
Joe Dolce is a singer-songwriter, poet and essayist.  This is Joe's letter to Monthly editor John van Tiggelen, written just prior to the publication of 'Shaddap You Facebook' in the April 2013 issue of the magazine:     Hi John, OK – I can live with the ‘Shaddap You Facebook’ title. This once. Under normal circumstanc
Shaddap you Facebook

Child photography vs pornography

By Joe Dolce
One day last December, there was a hard knock on the door. Through the bedroom window I saw two men, dressed in shirts and ties, and a woman. On the doorstep, one man introduced himself as a senior police detective. He politely handed me a search warrant. I looked it over – “Suspected Offence: possession of child pornography. Reason for Search: a reasonable belief exists that material evidence associated with the possession
March 2013

Make it memorable, Steve Gibbons

By Mungo MacCallum
As if they didn’t have enough to fear and loathe already, the Liberal Party Tories and their media cheer squad have found a new hate object: the unassuming member for Bendigo, Steve Gibbons. Gibbons’s most recent crime is that last week, when demonstrators from the public gallery called the Prime Minister a bitch and a liar, he tweeted: “Looks like Abb
January 2013

Tony in the Telegraph

By Michaela McGuire
Last week, while a catastrophic fire warning was in place for southern NSW, Tony Abbott announced on Twitter that he was going on standby with a volunteer fire brigade. Federal Labor MP Brendan O’Connor was quick to retweet the opposition leader’s stat

Death in Brunswick

By Helen Garner
The rooftop bar was buzzing, late on a warm Friday afternoon. My friend and I found a spot under an umbrella and ordered up. Each of us was secretly longing to talk about the fact that the cops had charged a man with the rape and murder of Jill Meagher, but be
Gillard and the misogynists

They Had It Coming

By Judith Brett
Last month’s debate about misogyny and sexism in high places – of Alan Jones, Peter Slipper and Tony Abbott – reveals just how confused the relationship between private and public has become in the age of social media. Let’s begin with Peter Slipper, the former
Gillard and the press gallery

A Matter of Context

By Amanda Lohrey
Thank you very much, Deputy Speaker, and I rise to oppose the motion moved by the Leader of the Opposition. And in so doing I say … I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. I will not. And the government will not be lectured about sexism
The troubadour glut

Sensitive Souls

By Richard Guilliatt
Keaton Henson is a 24-year-old British singer–songwriter who resembles a yeoman minstrel – full beard, Jesus hair, waif-thin frame enveloped in jumbo-knit pullovers. His debut album Dear … consists of ten mournful laments about his ex-girlfriend sung in a quaverin
October 2011

Trolling the Comments Box

By Monthly Wire
The Monthly’s website has welcomed a surge of new visitors and lively audience participation in response to a teaser posted on Monday regarding Anne Summers’ profile, “The Bolt Factor”. Thousands of readers have passed by, leaving in their wake a flurr

'Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide: British Art Now' Art Gallery of South Australia

By Terry Smith
Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide: British Art Now is another instalment in the Art Gallery of South Australia’s effort to re-badge itself as a contemporary art space. Already this year audiences have been treated to strong shows by Tracey Moffatt and Patricia Pic
Ai Weiwei

Art of Dissent

By Terry Smith
Among the many symbolic resonances attending Ai Weiwei’s disappearance on 3 April into the custodianship of the Chinese authorities is the sad state of his website, once among the most trafficked in China. You enter as you always did, onto his minimal signature and a
A Short History of the Media Future

Mash-up

By John Birmingham
The formal library, in contrast, has none of this. Occupying the centre of the original house, its one nod to modernity is a rather groovy white lampshade hanging in the centre of the room. The vast and intricate web of optical fibre and wiring, which forms a sort of nervous system for the rest of the house, courses around this one space like water around a
Out of Work in a Land of Plenty

The Coming Storm

By John Birmingham