July 2014
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
The destruction of the Triabunna mill and the fall of Tasmania's woodchip industry
How the end of Gunns cleared a new path for Tasmania
Inside the strange world of Rolf Harris
Behind the wobbleboard
How network companies lined their pockets and drove electricity prices through the roof
The Nation Reviewed
Malcolm Turnbull, the prince of moderation
How the Liberal Party has exiled its last reasonable man
The decline of the ‘Australian’
Talking about the narcissistic national daily only encourages it
What makes a litigant turn vexatious?
On the road with the librarians who deliver
VOX
Medicine
Arts & Letters
Indonesia on the brink of change
Elizabeth Pisani’s ‘Indonesia Etc.’ and Hamish McDonald’s ‘Demokrasi’
The secret history of Bangarra Dance Theatre’s ‘Patyegarang’
1994 might be one of the best years popular music has ever had
A priest walks into an abattoir
Art and artifice in John Michael McDonagh’s ‘Calvary’
Noted
‘Agostino’ by Alberto Moravia New York Review Books; $29.99
‘All the Light We Cannot See’ by Anthony Doerr HarperCollins; $29.99
