The Liberals’ woman problem
The party has a target, but no policy ... sound familiar?
July 2014
Arts & Letters
‘All the Light We Cannot See’ by Anthony Doerr
HarperCollins; $29.99
Ronnie Scott is the author of Salad Days and editor of The Best of The Lifted Brow.
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July 2014
The return of the Moree Boomerangs
The First on the Ladder arts project is turning things around for a rugby club and the local kids
Turnbull fires back
Unlike Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull never promised ‘no wrecking’
Toronto International Film Festival 2018 (part one)
A British outlier and a British newcomer are among the stand-outs in the first part of the festival
Leonard Bernstein: show tunes and symphonies
Centenary celebrations highlight the composer’s broad ambitions and appeal
The hermitic world of Debra Granik’s ‘Leave No Trace’
The ‘Winter’s Bone’ director takes her exploration of family ties off the grid
Low’s ‘Double Negative’: studies in slow transformation
Twelve albums in, the Minnesota three-piece can still surprise in their unique way
To have or not to have: Sheila Heti’s ‘Motherhood’ and Jacqueline Rose’s ‘Mothers’
Heti’s novel asks if a woman should have a child; Rose’s nonfiction considers how society treats her if she does
‘One Hundred Years of Dirt’ by Rick Morton
A social affairs reporter turns the pen on himself
‘John Mawurndjul: I Am the Old and the New’ at the MCA, Sydney
The celebrated bark painter’s ethos guides this retrospective exhibition
‘Kudos’ by Rachel Cusk
A masterful trilogy concludes
‘Colony’ at NGV Australia
Twin exhibitions explore the very different experiences of settlement for European and Indigenous peoplesTurnbull fires back
Unlike Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull never promised ‘no wrecking’Toronto International Film Festival 2018 (part one)
A British outlier and a British newcomer are among the stand-outs in the first part of the festival
Benedict Cumberbatch is perfect as the imperfect Patrick Melrose
The actor brings together his trademark raffishness and sardonic superiority in this searing miniseries
Dutton’s double standards
The au pair controversy may lead some to ask if the minister has any standards at all
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