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Editor’s Note May 2019
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“In the lead-up to the election, the ridiculousness of News Corp front pages, especially on the tabloids, is so pervasive and routine it has almost become part of the pageantry. The bias, like New Years Eve fireworks, gets bigger every occasion, and …
Budget 2019: papering over the cracks
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The budget’s gifts and promises are unlikely to impress a disillusioned public
New developments in watergate scandal
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The EAA deal is not the only buyback that warrants scrutiny
Editor’s Note April 2019
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“Denial takes many forms,” writes James Bradley in The Monthly’s April issue. “There is the shameless intellectual dishonesty of the hard right, with its junk science and surrender to corporate interests.” One wouldn’t need to walk …
Editor’s Note March 2019
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“The times favour me,” Bill Shorten says. Speaking to Laura Tingle in his first in-depth press interview in many months, the Opposition leader is both candid and confident. He speaks as a man who has survived every insult and accusation that opponents …
Editor’s Note February 2019
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As the Morrison government stumbles towards electoral disaster, seemingly incapable of finding its purpose, intent instead on exploiting nationalist culture politics, surely some in the Coalition must be regretting their actions of August last year. The …
Editor’s Note December 2018 – January 2019
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In July 2016 I received an email from journalist Sam Vincent: “Have you heard of David Eastman?” Eastman was convicted in 1995 for the murder of AFP Assistant Commissioner Colin Winchester, the most senior cop ever killed …
Summer stories
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Tim Winton on saving Australia’s other great reef, plus Richard Cooke on the US midterms
The Liberal Party: a rolling fiasco
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The government’s suite of half-formed ideas work for no one
Politics and life-threatening decisions
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A former immigration department official speaks out, plus Sean Kelly on Scott Morrison
Arts special with award winning artist Mojo Juju
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Also featuring director Rachel Perkins plus Karen Hitchcock on drug legalisation
Editor’s Note September 2018
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September in Australia means celebrating football fever. But as Wendy Carlisle’s extensive investigation for The Monthly reveals, players may pay a permanent price for their brief moments of on-field glory. While American football has been …
Helen Garner on the courts, and a cure for ageing?
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Also featuring the legend of Australian spy Laurie Matheson and Andrew Ford on Leonard Bernstein
