Federal politics
The year of living cautiously
What do the first 12 months of the Albanese government tell us about its aims, and how should we assess its success?
June 2023
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The coronation, the republic and the voice
Constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians is a necessary step towards a republic
Silicon semiconductor production could be the one thing keeping Taiwan safe from a mainland China takeover
What are the next steps after the parliamentary committee investigation into long COVID?
Compared to the Hawke government’s approach to deficit, how does Jim Chalmers’ new budget stack up?
Cancelling Douglas Bader, legendary fighter pilot, World War Two hero and unreconstructed racist
A walk with ecologist Alison Pouliot exploring the ways fungi up-end our understanding of the natural world
VOX
Sudden clarity during and after the final days in aged care of a neighbour with dementia
Trailing orcas on a whale hunt off the Ningaloo coast provides a visceral thrill and good news for the ecosystem
Elise McCredie’s barely disguised account of Melbourne cult The Family seeks to explore how power is exploited differently by a female leader
Moving towards grief: ‘Ordinary Notes’
Black American scholar Christina Sharpe interrogates the different demands made by guilt and grief when addressing a violent national history
The deep end: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3’ and ‘Infinity Pool’
Comics fan James Gunn delivers the best of Marvel’s overabundance, while Brandon Cronenberg offers a perverse vision of humanity unbound
Kris Kneen’s ‘Fat Girl Dancing’
The author recounts the daily tolls of moving through the world in a fat body, with a defiant embrace of diversity
The author’s debut novel considers how fiction might intersect with memoir to best tell the story of his grandfather’s imprisonment in Vietnam
‘O remember / In your narrowing dark hours / That more things move / Than blood in the heart’
The poetry that delivered perspective when the author came face to face with a grizzly bear in the wilds of Alaska
