Shooters v. Nats
The party of the bush is neither listening nor thinking
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
The hyperbole machine
Social media and streaming services are changing what and how we watch
‘Zebra and Other Stories’ by Debra Adelaide
Difficult-to-grasp characters populate this new collection
The right reverts to form after Christchurch
Insisting that both sides are to blame does nothing to arrest far-right extremism
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
Rats, heroes and Kevin Rudd’s ‘The PM Years’
This memoir answers some questions about his deposal and return but raises others
Tracking time: Gerald Murnane’s ‘A Season on Earth’
Forty years on, the author’s second novel is reunited with its lost half
Clicks, plinks, hoots and thuds: Matmos’s ‘Plastic Anniversary’
The American experimental duo embrace the ‘sounds’ of a ubiquitous material
A French Western? Jacques Audiard on ‘The Sisters Brothers’
The celebrated director explains how he made a Hollywood staple his own
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?The hyperbole machine
Social media and streaming services are changing what and how we watchThe right reverts to form after Christchurch
Insisting that both sides are to blame does nothing to arrest far-right extremism
Making the private public: ‘The Seventies’ by Michelle Arrow
This new history traces how the decade’s redefined politics shaped modern Australia
Hell hath no fury: Karyn Kusama’s ‘Destroyer’
Nicole Kidman confronts in this LA crime thriller
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