April 2017
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
The Australian right is startling for its incoherence
What will be the cost of a patchwork NBN?
The Nation Reviewed
The Australia of Pauline Hanson’s second parliamentary term looks very different to the Australia of her first
Russian piano superstar Daniil Trifonov teaches a masterclass in Melbourne
Farmers on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula are preparing for a plague
Under-the-sea society is much more complex than we imagine
The only player analysis you’ll need this footy season
VOX
A farming family and Indigenous elders join forces to recognise a special site on private land
The prospect of 12 hours in Singapore airport gives rise to an existential crisis
Arts & Letters
The Asia TOPA festival is unique for its focus on contemporary Asian culture
Bill Henson exhibits recent photographic work at the National Gallery of Victoria
Jessa Crispin’s ‘Why I Am Not a Feminist’ demands a dismantling of mainstream feminism … and the system itself
The whole follow-your-dreams thing
There’s some bite to Donald Glover’s languid, lyrical comedy series ‘Atlanta’
On George Michael, race and pop
Noted
‘Fever Dream’ by Samanta Schweblin Trans. Megan McDowell; Oneworld; $19.99
‘Loving’ directed by Jeff Nichols eOne Films
In Light of Recent Events
By Oslo Davis
Women’s rightful places
Watching women in daggy footy shorts run around during the inaugural season of the AFL women’s league required very little getting used to. In just a few months it’s become so normal that I’m embarrassed to explain to my daughters, aged 8 and 11, why the league hasn’t been around since, like, forever. But, because I am such an amazingly progressive, switched-on, feminist dad, I asked them what we should fix next. What other “mostly men stuff” in our world should be “men and women stuff”? This is what they told me.