Cannes Film Festival 2022 highlights: part one
Mia Hansen-Løve’s ‘One Fine Morning’, Charlotte Le Bon’s ‘Falcon Lake’ and Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s ‘Pamfir’ were bright spots in an otherwise underwhelming line-upDecember 2017 – January 2018
Arts & Letters
The inland food bowl
A poem
A gapped circle of colonies
each staring at the ocean
through a plaid of cars and imports.
Inland lies the still uncrowded
heartland once of drawl and steamboats
now half desert, half freshwater province.
There the Murray descends its seven thousand
feet off the Pilot, zigzags over the plains,
forest and furrow toward an outfall wash.
Narrow rivers link to this one, or slant north
where the dragon Ceratodus grunts in ivory mail
and streets are shaded in peppercorn and willow.
Having monstered tribesfolk,
dressed POWs in maroon,
it now flickers dials, or pipes experienced water
onto rice, onto cotton, on to Adelaide.
Western scrub rivers merge down the Darling
above flint blade
and reburied bones of the Warrior
as snow wind chills the saltbush
down from seven thousand feet.
The art of the teal
Amid the long decline of the major parties, have independents finally solved the problem of lopsided campaign financing laws?
The end of Liberal reign in Kooyong
At the Auburn Hotel on election night, hope coalesces around Monique Ryan
OnlyFans and the adults in the room
The emerging OnlyFans community offering training and support to adult-content creators
The new era
Ready or not, China is here
When the politics got personal
Gillian Triggs’ culture shock
On the road to Gundagai
An unexpected stop prompts the question: Just what is the deal with the Dog on the Tuckerbox?
We are all diminished
Australian politics is full of contradictions, double standards and gaping voids
Ghost notes: Simon Tedeschi’s ‘Fugitive’
A virtuoso memoir of music and trauma, and his experiences as a child prodigy, from the acclaimed Australian pianist
One small step: ‘Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood’ and ‘Deep Water’
Richard Linklater’s rotoscoped film evokes the optimism of late-1960s America, while Patricia Highsmith’s thriller gets another disappointing adaptation
The quip and the dead: Steve Toltz’s ‘Here Goes Nothing’
A bleakly satirical look at death and the afterlife from the wisecracking author of ‘A Fraction of the Whole’
Art heist: The landmark conviction of an Aboriginal art centre’s manager
The jailing of Mornington Island Art’s chief executive for dishonest dealing has shone a light on ethics and colonialism in the Indigenous art world
Cannes Film Festival 2022 highlights: part one
Mia Hansen-Løve’s ‘One Fine Morning’, Charlotte Le Bon’s ‘Falcon Lake’ and Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s ‘Pamfir’ were bright spots in an otherwise underwhelming line-upThe art of the teal
Amid the long decline of the major parties, have independents finally solved the problem of lopsided campaign financing laws?The end of Liberal reign in Kooyong
At the Auburn Hotel on election night, hope coalesces around Monique Ryan
The avoidable war
Kevin Rudd on China, the US and the forces of history
