October 2020

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Essays

Politics

Fear of spending

Richard Denniss

So what is MMT and why should you care?

COVID-19

The lockdown diaries

By Helen Garner

Melbourne in the time of pandemic

Issues and policies

The second wave

By Martin McKenzie-Murray

Case studies of systemic failure in Victoria’s ﬁght against coronavirus

Environment

Shattered

By Bronwyn Adcock

A NSW community questions whether last summer’s catastrophic bushfire was inevitable

Music

Soul music: Kev Carmody

By Paul Kelly

The life of a great Australian songwriter

The Nation Reviewed

Federal politics

The announcement artist

By Nick Feik

Scott Morrison is good at promising but not at delivering

Art

Lost for words

By Anthony Ham

Bryan Dawe on life without John Clarke

Education

A minor language

By André Dao

If Footscray Primary’s Vietnamese program ends, what else is lost?

Arts & Letters

Film

Body politic: ‘Boys State’

By Shane Danielsen

American democracy is documented in all its gangly, acne-mottled glory

Books

In our nature: ‘Vesper Flights’

By Mireille Juchau

Helen Macdonald explores how the study of animals reveals unknown aspects of ourselves

Music

Listening to Roberta Flack

By Anwen Crawford

‘First Take’, released 50 years ago, still echoes through the present

Noted

Books

‘The Time of Our Lives’ by Robert Dessaix

By Helen Elliott

The memoirist’s latest, surprisingly unsettling instalment

Books

‘The Lying Life of Adults’ by Elena Ferrante

By Stephanie Bishop

The Neapolitan author returns to characters driven by compulsions and tensions of class

In Light of Recent Events

Cartoon

We now cross to the / Press conference. Handily / Abridged in haiku.

Oslo Davis

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