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December 2017 – January 2018

The Nation Reviewed

Straight outta Narrandera

By Darryn King
Victoria Lee takes on the Victoria’s Secret runway

Darryn King

Darryn King is a freelance journalist based in New York.

@DarrynKing

December 2017 – January 2018

From the front page

Surveillance grates

Paddy ManningThe government’s response to the Richardson review needs close scrutiny

Image of Stephen Bram’s work, Untitled, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 210 x 390 cm.

Currents of joy: Stephen Bram and John Nixon

Quentin SpragueOverlapping exhibitions by the two abstract artists convey their shared radical modernism

In light of recent events

Oslo DavisShamelessly derivative summer puzzle!
Image of Earth from the Moon

Pale blue dot

Ceridwen DoveyThe myth of the ‘overview effect’, and how it serves space industry entrepreneurs

In This Issue

Illustration

We are all diminished

Don WatsonAustralian politics is full of contradictions, double standards and gaping voids

Unfinished business: A short story

Anna GoldsworthyCan a young wartime couple pick up where they left off?

Illustration

The unflappable Finkel

Anna KrienAustralia’s chief scientist talks energy alternatives and trying to elevate the narrative

The inland food bowl

Les MurrayA poem

More in The Nation Reviewed

Illustration by Jeff Fisher

Picking losers

James BoyceThere are good reasons why Australians won’t pick fruit

Illustration by Jeff Fisher

Murrandoo’s Burketown

Tony KellyHow Murrandoo Yanner’s fight for native title in the Gulf of Carpentaria transformed his Gangalidda home town

Illustration by Jeff Fisher

Intimacy on set

Jenny ValentishProductions now hire advisers to help performers navigate intimate and violent scenes

Illustration by Jeff Fisher

Narrabri’s gas-fired liability

Patrick LauLocals fear coal-seam gas mining in the Pilliga will destroy the forest, the water and the tourism industry

Read on

Image of Stephen Bram’s work, Untitled, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 210 x 390 cm.

Currents of joy: Stephen Bram and John Nixon

Quentin SpragueOverlapping exhibitions by the two abstract artists convey their shared radical modernism

What elitism looks like

Martin McKenzie-MurrayFlagrant conflicts of interest abound at the top

Image of Anne Ferran, Scenes on the Death of Nature I, 1986

‘Know My Name’ at the National Gallery of Australia

Miriam CosicAn exhilarating exhibition considers a persistent gender bias in the visual arts

Image of Prime Minister Scott Morrison

Morrison’s climate flip

Mungo MacCallumAustralia has a lot of catching up to do on emissions reduction

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