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February 2021
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
In Morrison’s government, a lack of accountability has become systemic
When four-time mayor Paul Pisasale was jailed for fraud and corruption, ‘Mr Ipswich’ left behind a fractured city ruled for the benefit of developers and mates
Nightclubs, pandemics and our real selves
For some in the disabled community, it wasn’t long after COVID hit that the all-in-this-together sentiment started falling apart
The Nation Reviewed
The Brereton Report has wounded Scott Morrison’s efforts to make the Australian War Memorial the nation’s ‘most sacred place’
The effort to restore Australia’s once-vast oyster ecosystems
Brain–computer interfaces promise communication capabilities for those paralysed by neurological dysfunction
Vox
Arts & Letters
The paintbrush is a weapon: Vincent Namatjira
The Archibald Prize winner’s politics are less straightforward than the art world might like to think
Eye to eye in the wild: ‘Australia Remastered’
The continent’s natural wonders – some now gone forever – are celebrated in a series that uncovers footage from the ABC’s disbanded Natural History Unit
Once upon a time in the north: ‘High Ground’
Stephen Maxwell Johnson’s foray into Australia’s violent colonial history is a visually spectacular, if overfamiliar, revisionist Western
Stopped back in time: Kylie Minogue’s ‘Disco’
The showbiz trouper delivers another album of spare, efficient pleasure
Noted
‘Fragile Monsters’ by Catherine Menon Memories of the Malayan Emergency resurface when a mathematician returns to her home country, in the British author’s debut novel
‘TIWI’ at the National Gallery of Victoria A must-see exhibition of Tiwi art from Bathurst and Melville islands, in which historical and contemporary media and imagery fuse
