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November 4, 2011The Monthly wins Australian Magazine Award
The Monthly has collected a gong at the 2011 Australian Magazine Awards ceremony in Sydney. The Monthly was selected as the winner of the Business, Finance & Current Affairs category, competing against some of Australia’s best …
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November 3, 2011November 2011 Editor’s Note
It's hard to see Julia Gillard as a leader in more than name – seemingly incapable of setting the political agenda, she lacks the respect of much of the ALP's most ardent support base. Increasingly over the past year I'd hoped we would find a reason …
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October 25, 2011Exclusive screening invitations – ’The Tall Man’ (closed)
The Tall Man is the story of Palm Island, a tropical paradise in Australia’s Far North. Based on the award-winning book by Chloe Hooper, The Tall Man is a gripping and provocative film that exposes the inescapable complexities …
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October 19, 2011Melbourne Writers Festival 2011 Sessions on SlowTV
A compilation of lectures and talks from this year's Melbourne Writers Festival.Plotting the perfect crime – Tess Gerritsen and Michael RobothamBirds of a feather – Jonathan FranzenAll That I Am – Anna Funder in conversationKate …
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October 10, 2011Anne Summers: My “laughable errors”
On his blog, posted late on Saturday night, Andrew Bolt accuses me of “a despicable defamation of [his] wife”, and of “laughable errors, from my supposed previous ‘engagement’ to the apparent assumption that some clearly fake Twitter account …
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October 10, 2011The Bolt Factor Free for the Next 24 Hours (expired)
It was amusing to read on Andrew Bolt’s blog on Saturday that the Monthly had removed “The Bolt Factor” from our website when it was simply behind the paywall for subscribers. For the next 24 hours Anne Summers’ profile will be available …
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October 7, 2011Trolling the Comments Box
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 …
Andrew Bolt
October 6, 2011Editor’s Note: October issue (and the Bolt saga)
Andrew Bolt refused to talk with Walkley Award-winning journalist Anne Summers for her profile in the October Monthly. That's not particularly surprising: many public figures recoil from in-depth profiles. But Bolt's response to a reference …
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October 3, 2011Andrew Bolt Profile in October issue
Update: The first 1600 words of Anne Summers' profile of Andrew Bolt is now published online (subscription required to read the entire piece, at 6700 words).Update: 'Bolt an opportunist keen on Fox News, …
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September 26, 2011New ‘advanced search’ feature
Visitors to TheMonthly.com.au now have another way to explore our archives. Our new ‘advanced search’ facility provides a powerful set of filters that students and researchers, in particular, will love using. Start with a search term or keyword, such …
Climate change
September 1, 2011September 2011 editor’s note
There’s been remarkably little critical debate on the Left about what Gillard’s carbon price will actually achieve. Environmental groups are uniformly spruiking it, perhaps sensing the package is the last conceivable near-term chance of climate action. …
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September 5, 2011New website design: tell us what you think
We’d like to know what you think of the new Monthly website, a long-awaited update on our 2007 design. The bold new website features more photography and illustration to tempt you into spending more time online with Australia’s finest thinkers, …
