The new tyranny of distance
Facing a historic isolation of a different kind, what next for our migrant nation?
In light of recent events
The world according to @CraigDark2Light, influential conspiracy theorist and recent anti-lockdown campaigner.
Oslo Davis is a widely published illustrator and artist. Raised Eyebrows, his yearly newspaper of drawings, is out now.
‘The End of October’ by Lawrence Wright
A ‘New Yorker’ journalist’s eerily prescient novel about public-health officials fighting a runaway pandemic
The last word on George Pell
The royal commission’s damning verdict on what Pell knew about child sexual abuse in the Church
Tour de forced cancellations
How Port Douglas, the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree, has been quieted by lockdown
Serenity
Give us not serenity but a sense of urgency in the face of catastrophic climate change
Bitter pill: ‘Collective’
This staggering documentary exposes institutionalised corruption in Romanian hospitals
All things considered: Emily Maguire’s ‘Love Objects’
The Australian writer’s latest novel portrays hoarding with an acute understanding of the deeply human desire to connect
Held in common: ‘The National’ at the MCA
Foregrounding women’s practice, this exhibition of contemporary Australian art proposes a poetics of inclusion