Leaders and dung beetles
On John Cain, Scott Morrison and our curious inability to elect good people
In light of recent events
Pope Francis’s Guide to Avoiding Physical Contact
Oslo Davis is a widely published illustrator, artist and cartoonist.
The king in exile: Gordon Koang
The music of the South Sudanese star and former refugee offers solace and a plea for unity
Warringah warrior
Independent MP Zali Steggall hopes her private member’s bill will take the partisanship out of climate-change policy![Image of L’Arlésienne [detail], by Pablo Picasso](https://www.themonthly.com.au/sites/default/files/styles/panel_image_small/public/Cosic_1140x700_1.jpg?itok=wGACp5Mx)
‘Matisse & Picasso’: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Hanging works by the two masters together highlights their artistic rivalry and mutual influence
The fraught politics of Fire Fight Australia
The imperatives of commercial media mean that the bushfire crisis is unlikely to be a tipping point for denialism
Celebrating beauty’s passing: ‘Requiem’
Italian director Romeo Castellucci on his radical reimagining of Mozart’s classic
A gap too far
Despite fine words in response to the latest Closing the Gap report, the PM insists that politicians know best when it comes to the question of recognition
Wildlife’s whispered traces: ‘Extinction Studies’
Lucienne Rickard’s durational art performance at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery reckons with extinct species