May 2018
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
Making women’s unpaid work count
Feminist economics pioneer Marilyn Waring on care and the unfinished feminist revolution
Papua New Guinea’s resource curse
Disaster strikes the nation’s massive gas project
A controversial diagnosis is giving hope to sufferers of debilitating hearing issues
The Nation Reviewed
The Carmichael coalmine is as much about symbols and interests as it is about jobs and money
Has Australia’s ad-hoc approach to waste management backfired?
How and why did the Chifley Library flood?
One man’s campaign to have Gweagal artefacts returned to Australia
The Courts
Arts & Letters
Patrick White’s immigrant language
White gained from his partner’s Greek Orthodoxy a sensibility that changed how he saw Australia
‘Deep Time Dreaming’ by Billy Griffiths
This history of archaeology in Australia charts our changing relationship with the past
This latest edition offers a contemporary take on elemental balance
The prolific director hits his own limits with this experiment in technology
Noted
‘The Lebs’ by Michael Mohammed Ahmad A fresh perspective on Muslim youth in Sydney’s west
‘A Sand Archive’ by Gregory Day Day grasps landscape as an intimate living thing
