The prevention state: Part three
As authorities try to prevent crimes that haven’t happened, legislation is increasingly targeting people for whom it was not intended.
August 2014
Arts & Letters
Virtually pointless
At the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale, ‘Augmented Australia’ fails to impress
The 'Augmented Australia' app in action. © Alexander Mayes Photography
August 2014
A national disaster
On the PM’s catastrophically inept response to Australia’s unprecedented bushfires
A Pentecostal PM and climate change
Does a belief in the End Times inform Scott Morrison’s response to the bushfire crisis?
The prevention state: Part one
Governments and police are trying to pre-empt danger with legislation. But when the risk is terrorism, there are limits to what is possible.
Must we choose between climate-change action and freedom of speech?
The science is clear, but the way forward is not
Art Gallery NSW’s Michael Brand
Adventures in the artefact business
Australia’s $60 billion submarine dilemma
A decision on our underwater fleet cannot be put off much longer
The women of Papua New Guinea’s village courts
Being a magistrate in the Eastern Highlands is not for the faint of heart
Bodak moment: Pop’s decade of superstars
Cardi B delivered the song of the decade as a new league of superstars overcame the significance of bands
Don’t look back in anger: Liam and Noel Gallagher
As interest in Oasis resurges, talking to the combative brothers recalls their glory years as ‘dirty chancers, stealing riffs instead of Ford Fiestas’
Damascene subversion: Christos Tsiolkas’s ‘Damascus’
The literary storyteller’s latest novel wrestles with the mythology of Christianity’s founder, Paul the Apostle![Cover of Peter Pomerantsev’s ‘This Is Not Propaganda’ [detail]](https://www.themonthly.com.au/sites/default/files/styles/panel_image_small/public/Lohrey_1140x700_v2.jpg?itok=BCUIHHKL "Cover of Peter Pomerantsev’s ‘This Is Not Propaganda’")
Agents of chaos: Peter Pomerantsev’s ‘This Is Not Propaganda’
The Russian expat journalist wonders if democracy can survive the internet, as social media is used to promote feelings over facts
Two worlds at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale
The consumption of space, land and habitat is Australia’s focus at the world’s pre-eminent architecture event
Walking the Wukalina Walk
A new four-day tour in Tasmania is owned and guided by Aboriginal people
Murcutt’s mosque
The Australian Islamic Centre is notable for what it isn’t as much as for what it is
Twelve of a kind
Why is Australia planning so many new casinos?A Pentecostal PM and climate change
Does a belief in the End Times inform Scott Morrison’s response to the bushfire crisis?A national disaster
On the PM’s catastrophically inept response to Australia’s unprecedented bushfires
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s ‘The Truth’
The Palme D’Or winner on working with the iconic Catherine Deneuve in his first film set outside Japan
Four seasons in 11 days: ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’
Céline Sciamma’s impeccable study of desire and freedom is a slow burn
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