December 2014 – January 2015
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
The president of Kiribati goes on a fact-finding mission in the Arctic
Road freight is expensive, dirty and dangerous. Why are our governments addicted to it?
What’s the difference between a rock star and a pop star?
Australia has produced only six true rock stars
Gambler and MONA founder David Walsh has written a book
Does the future belong to “sharing economy” companies like Uber and Airbnb?
The Nation Reviewed
Remembering Gough Whitlam puts modern Labor to shame
The world’s biggest radio telescope is under construction in Western Australia
The women of outback Queensland kick off their heels in Australia’s smallest town
150 years ago, the Cooper-Duff children got lost in the Victorian bush
VOX
Medicine
Arts & Letters
Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’
Frank Moorhouse’s ‘Australia Under Surveillance’ and David Horner’s ‘The Spy Catchers: The official history of ASIO, 1949–1963’
Lena Dunham’s ‘Not That Kind of Girl’
Nick Drake
Dan Gilroy’s ‘Nightcrawler’ and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘Birdman’
Noted
‘The Invisible History of the Human Race’ by Christine Kenneally Black Inc.; $29.99
MPavilion Queen Victoria Gardens, Melbourne
