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Open and shut case

Politics

State premiers – and the public – want to know what Berejiklian is planning for NSW reopening

The great deceiver

Politics

The prime minister preaches faith but lies, deflects, dissembles and seeks to detach us from reality

The challenge of China

Society

Why have Australia–China relations deteriorated so comprehensively, and what can Australia do to restore them?

Forebodings and a funeral: ‘Shiva Baby’

Culture

Emma Seligman’s funny but tense film is a triumph of writing and performance over spectacle

The shed that contains the future

Society

A green hydrogen project in South Australia aims to demonstrate zero-emission energy production

Amalia Ulman: self-made woman

Culture

The Argentinian-born artist plays with personas in her debut feature film ‘El Planeta’


A trip to the doctor

A personal experience of how psychedelics are transforming mental health therapies

The Monthly Essays

The end game

WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is slowly dying in a UK prison, as the US maintains its fight to have him die in theirs – but there is hope

A trip to the doctor

A personal experience of how psychedelics are transforming mental health therapies

Agenda bender

What shifting notions of sex and gender mean for affirmative action in the workplace




The Nation Reviewed

The coward’s pulpit

Scott Morrison is a leader who not only fails to accept responsibility but continually abandons his post

The shed that contains the future

A green hydrogen project in South Australia aims to demonstrate zero-emission energy production

Racing against time

The I-Kiribati Olympic sprinter hoping to draw attention to his nation’s climate catastrophe


Vox

A fisherman’s lament

A solo road trip back to harsh realities

Owl

Arts & Letters

Breathless spaces: ‘The House of Fragile Things’

James McAuley’s examination of four great art-collecting families and the French anti-Semitism that brought their downfall

Forebodings and a funeral: ‘Shiva Baby’

Emma Seligman’s funny but tense film is a triumph of writing and performance over spectacle

Tip of the pops: ‘This Is Pop’ and ‘Song Exploder’

Two Netflix documentary series only manage to skim the surface of pop music history

Time remaining

New poetry from the award-winning writer and critic



Noted

Goya: Drawings from the Prado Museum Goya’s dark and difficult works exhibited at NGV remind us how little the world has moved on from past horrors By Quentin Sprague

European Masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York QAGOMA’s exhibition goes beyond the usual blockbuster bling to favour lesser known works of the masters By Miriam Cosic


In Light of Recent Events

Survival of the Filet-o-Fishest