A time to remember
The passing of Labor’s great speechwriter Graham Freudenberg highlights the party’s absence of a clear rationale
In light of recent events
Senator Matt Canavan or Yowie?
Oslo Davis is a widely published illustrator, artist and cartoonist.
‘Lambs of God’
Director Jeffrey Walker blends ripe melodrama and Gothic thriller in his TV series about three wayward nuns
The Newcastle trial of Graeme Lawrence
The second most senior churchman in Australia to be found guilty of child sexual abuse
‘Here Until August’ by Josephine Rowe
The Australian author’s second short-story collection focuses on the precipice of change rather than its culmination
Mati Diop’s haunting ‘Atlantics’
The French-Senegalese director channels ancient fables and contemporary nightmares in this ghostly love story
‘I’m with the Band: Nasty Cherry’
This Netflix series pays lip service to female empowerment in the music industry, but ultimately reinforces its limits
Streaming highlights: November 2019
‘The Crown’, ‘For All Mankind’ and ‘Dickinson’ offer new perspectives on history, and pragmatism meets pyramid schemes in ‘On Becoming a God in Central Florida’
What does China want from Australia?
On Australia’s efforts to resist Beijing’s campaign for influence – A Quarterly Essay extract