March 2020
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
In the face of the looming catastrophes of climate change, how do we talk when we’re lost for words? The author speaks with everyday Australians to see if we can articulate hope and provoke action
How far away is mass surveillance when Australian governments are linking CCTV cameras to facial-recognition technology and providing photo IDs to a nationwide system known as ‘the Capability’?
The end of the cow is near as animal-free milk is likely to decimate the traditional dairy industry within the decade, and plant-based meat is set to upend the beef market
The Nation Reviewed
Looking back on Kevin Rudd’s overly ambitious and thinly detailed Australia 2020 Summit
An infectious diseases physician on facing COVID-19
The Port Macquarie Koala Hospital working around the clock to treat victims of the bushfires
Helping carers use music to unlock the minds of people with dementia
Arts & Letters
Plans never imagined: Architect Timothy Hill
The ‘Longhouse’ and the ‘Multihouse’ confirm the director of Partners Hill as the country’s most important and influential architect of the past 30 years
They came, they saw: Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov’s ‘Honeyland’
A breathtaking North Macedonian film about Europe’s last female keeper of wild bees exists compellingly at the intersection of documentary and fiction
The future was foreclosed: Post-punk and Use No Hooks’ ‘The Job’
Energetic cross-genre experiments power a scant retrospective from members of Melbourne’s ‘little band’ scene
Noted
‘Stateless’: ABC A probing drama about Australia’s mandatory detention regime focuses on the dehumanisation experienced on both sides of the razor wire
‘The Bass Rock’ by Evie Wyld The Miles Franklin–winning author’s latest novel expands on her interest in the submission and consequential fury of women amid the impersonal natural world
In Light of Recent Events
By Oslo Davis
Rorschach Test: Do you exhibit a “baby boomer state of mind”?
