Indigenous Australia
Yukun’s return
The historic repatriation of the remains of an Aboriginal man murdered by a white policeman at Uluru in 1934
December 2022 – January 2023
December 2022 – January 2023 eBook
Firewood harvesting threatens forests
Illegal timber felling is destroying globally significant river red gum forests in northern Victoria
Robodebt and the transmission of shame
What the robodebt royal commission tells us about who knew what, and why it matters
How an understanding of history would prepare our economic leaders to lay the groundwork for the future
Doctored facts in The Australian
The danger of misrepresenting new malpractice regulations as muzzling doctors’ opinions
How an Australian discovered the oldest heart on the fossil record in the Kimberleys
In a temple in Melbourne, mystics, activists and feminists find common cause in goddess worship
The joys of planning then surrendering to a native garden, before bidding it a fond farewell
The artist in space: Simryn Gill’s ‘Clearing’
A new commission for AGNSW’s Sydney Modern showcases the artist’s dedication to bearing witness
Louche rich sink ships: Ruben Östlund’s ‘Triangle of Sadness’
The Swedish director’s Palme d’Or–winning satire of the ultra wealthy successfully throws a lot of (literal) crap at the wall
Orchestral manoeuvres: ‘Tár’ and ‘White Noise’
Todd Field’s drama asks to what extent we can separate a work from its maker, while Noah Baumbach tackles DeLillo’s best-known novel
The dry and the wet: Robert Connolly
The Australian producer-director of ‘Blueback’ has always sought to spotlight people with vision
While my guitar gently bleeps: Oren Ambarchi’s ‘Shebang’
Another mesmerising album from the itinerant Australian, in collaboration with some of the biggest names in experimental music
A new story from Nobel Prize–winning author J.M. Coetzee, in its first English publication, for Summer Reading
A new story from Abigail Ulman, author of ‘Hot Little Hands’, for Summer Reading
TV host, comedian and writer Shaun Micallef revisits Dickens’ seasonal classic, for Summer Reading
The English master novelist’s latest describes a boy’s sexual awakening with his piano teacher, and its lasting impact on his life
Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella’s ‘ART’
The poets’ second collaboration, including work from the late Nyoongar artist Shane Pickett, interrogates the settler-colonial mindset
