August 2015
Magazine
The Nation Reviewed
Tony Abbott’s surprises keep coming
The constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians requires meaningful consultation
Body Electric’s jazz ballet for adults
The many talents of a much-maligned rodent
The Monthly Essays
Why Australia won’t help the Rohingya
Former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis on Greece’s economic crisis
IBAC investigates Victoria’s rotten education bureaucracy
Medicine
Arts & Letters
Icon as exhibit at ACMI’s ‘David Bowie Is’
Why we keep watching ‘The Americans’, ‘Veep’ and ‘House of Cards’
Emma Kowal’s ‘Trapped in the Gap’ examines the ‘White anti-racist’ in indigenous Australia
Marina Abramović in Australia
Noted
‘Appetites for Thought’ by Michel Onfray Trans. Donald Barry and Stephen Muecke; Reaktion Books; $40
‘The Festival of Insignificance’ by Milan Kundera Trans. Linda Asher; Faber & Faber; $24.99
