The edge of their seats
Lessons from Gilmore, Australia’s most marginal electorateApril 2019
The Nation Reviewed
An AFL 2019 census
A droll-call of the season’s best and brightest
Names worthy of a four-week suspension from the tribunal
Nikki Gore, Jack Payne, Shane Savage, Gabriella Pound, James Harmes, Darcy Fort, Josh Battle
Names suitable for 2019’s next trendy wine varietal (“Could we have a bottle of the ...”)
Rosenzweig, Himmelberg, Bastinac, Scharenberg, Schlensog, Coniglio, Petracca, Gourlay, Clavarino, Varnhagen, Brazzale, Abbatangelo
Minor characters from the Robert Mueller investigation
Boyd Woodcock, Ruby Blair, Reni Hicks, Patrick Lipinski, Parris Laurie, Shae Sloane, Sydney Stack, Jordon Butts, Jamie Cripps, Max King
Winner of the inaugural Award for Merit
Zach Merrett
Snow White’s Seven Dwarves, 2019
Breann Moody, Lloyd Meek, Mark Keane, Adam Saad, Harrison Petty, Jackson Hately and Sam Docherty; and the best and fairest of them all, Brandon White
Contestants for the next season of ‘The Bachelor’ or ‘The Bachelorette’
Jayde Van Dyk, Riley Bonner, Jackson Thurlow, Gryan Miers, Kaiden Brand, Braydon Preuss, Kai Pudney, Kobe Mutch, Noah Gown, Trent Mynott, Krystal Scott, Mia-Rae Clifford
Names suitable for a fashion label on the Brownlow red carpet (“I’m wearing …”)
De Koning, Fiorini, Gallucci, Silvagni, Switkowski, Nankivell, Bonnici, Brancatisano
The AFL’s own Űbermensch
Aaron Nietschke
Members of 1980s glam-rock bands, reunited and playing a winery near you
Billy Frampton, Darcy Fogarty, Rory Sloane, Maverick Weller, Dougal Howard, Logan Austin, Jackson Nelson, Stevie-Lee Thompson, Sam Virgo, Georgia Gee
Prompts for packing a picnic
Jarrod Berry, Jack Crisp, Zak Butters, Brayden Ham, Devon Smith, Bayley Fritsch (only in South Australia), Flynn Appleby, Bailey Rice, Darcy Tucker, Lachie Plowman
The annual Jarrad census
Jarrad (1, down 1), Jarryd (2, down 1), Jarrod (8, up 1), Jared (1, no change), Jarryn (1, no change), Darragh (1, no change)
Names over-represented according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics
Jack (30; playing for St Kilda: 7), Sam (30), Tom (37), Josh (18), Rory (5), Callum (7), Courtney (5), Tayla (3)
Commentator’s nightmare, aka Seeing double
Sam Reid (Sydney Swans, GWS), Josh Kennedy (Sydney Swans, West Coast Eagles), Bailey Williams (Western Bulldogs, West Coast Eagles), Callum Brown (GWS, Collingwood), Tom Lynch (Adelaide, Richmond), Jack and Jackson Trengove (Port Adelaide and Western Bulldogs)
Former Brexit cheerleaders who are now nowhere to be found
Derek Eggmolesse-Smith, Ned McHenry, Charlie Constable, Tori Groves-Little, Sarah D’Arcy, Darcy Parish, George Horlin-Smith, Darcy Byrne-Jones, Riley Collier-Dawkins, McKenzie Dowrick, Julia Crockett-Grills, Tanya Hetherington, Laitham Vandermeer
The Orazio Fantasia Perpetual Trophy for Best New Name
Irving Mosquito (runner-up: Mikala Cann)
How to be a prime minister
The task ahead for Anthony Albanese in restoring the idea that governments should seek to make the country better
The future of the Liberal Party
Peter Dutton doesn’t just have a talent problem on his hands
Ghosts in the war machine
Does the military attract violent misanthropists, or are they forged in murky theatres of war?
How Australia’s coal madness led to Adani
The real reasons keeping the Carmichael mine alive
Missing witnesses: Valeria Luiselli’s ‘Lost Children Archive’
The Mexican ‘documentary fiction’ writer delivers a polyphonic road trip
Report from India: Tracing Gautam Adani’s ruthless ambition
The parallel rise of the coal baron and Prime Minister Narendra Modi
David Malouf’s new worlds
Consciousness is at the heart of the celebrated author’s body of work
What the oil and gas industry tells itself
A week after the devastating floods, the fossil-fuel industry described the scarcity of new projects today as “frightening”
Alien nation
Recent High Court decisions are testing who can be considered citizens, and who the federal government can exclude from Australia
Red rover
The Australian astrobiologist leading NASA’s search for life on Mars
Where did all the bogongs go?
The drastic decline of the bogong moth could have disastrous ecological consequencesGhosts in the war machine
Does the military attract violent misanthropists, or are they forged in murky theatres of war?
A dog’s breakfast
Notes on John Hughes’s plagiarism scandal
App trap: ‘Chloe’
‘Sex Education’ writer Alice Seabright’s new psychological thriller probing social media leads this month’s streaming highlights
‘The Picasso Century’ at the NGV
The NGV’s exhibition offers a fascinating history of the avant-garde across the Spanish artist’s lifetime
