September 2018
Magazine
Can David Sinclair cure old age?
The Australian geneticist believes ageing is a disease we can treat
The Nation Reviewed
Labor’s great big new tax plan
Bill Shorten wants to reframe how we tackle the budget
Queensland’s first Muslim prison chaplain has first-hand experience of the system
The return of the Moree Boomerangs
The First on the Ladder arts project is turning things around for a rugby club and the local kids
Filling a big hole in the property market
The old Cave Hill quarry in Melbourne will be home to thousands
The Monthly Essays
Can David Sinclair cure old age?
The Australian geneticist believes ageing is a disease we can treat
Is the league running interference on the damage concussion can cause?
Laurie Matheson, our man in Moscow
Was ‘Australia’s James Bond’ working for the KGB? Or ASIO? Or both?
The Courts
Arts & Letters
Leonard Bernstein: show tunes and symphonies
Centenary celebrations highlight the composer’s broad ambitions and appeal
The hermitic world of Debra Granik’s ‘Leave No Trace’
The ‘Winter’s Bone’ director takes her exploration of family ties off the grid
Low’s ‘Double Negative’: studies in slow transformation
Twelve albums in, the Minnesota three-piece can still surprise in their unique way
Noted
‘One Hundred Years of Dirt’ by Rick Morton A social affairs reporter turns the pen on himself
‘John Mawurndjul: I Am the Old and the New’ at the MCA, Sydney The celebrated bark painter’s ethos guides this retrospective exhibition
