Politics
Australia’s China reset
The rest of the world is watching how we counter Beijing’s campaign of influence
August 2018
August 2018 eBook
Environment
The world’s oceans and all marine life are on the brink of total collapse
Education
Abbott, ANU and the decline of Western civilisation
How the Ramsay Centre’s degree stopped before it started
Law and order
What happened to missing Northern Territory personality Paddy Moriarty?
Family and relationships
Annie Whitlocke is helping to break the silence around grief and dying
Warning: grubby work comes with grubby language
Art
Mike Parr’s invisible performance and Tasmania’s complex past
Underneath the bitumen in Hobart, history becomes art
Books
To have or not to have: Sheila Heti’s ‘Motherhood’ and Jacqueline Rose’s ‘Mothers’
Heti’s novel asks if a woman should have a child; Rose’s nonfiction considers how society treats her if she does
Music
The disappointment of The Carters’ ‘Everything Is Love’ and Kanye West’s ‘Ye’
New albums from Beyoncé and Jay-Z and Kanye West bare all yet share nothing
Books
The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel is an engaging story of love and literary misadventure
