September 2019
Magazine
The Monthly Essays
Howard’s Heir: On Scott Morrison and his suburban aspirations
How the PM’s ‘Quiet Australians’ echoes Howard’s battlers and Menzies’ ‘Forgotten People’
The life and death of Spiro Boursinos, impresario of rave culture’s pioneering event Earthcore
The Nation Reviewed
The passing of Labor’s great speechwriter Graham Freudenberg highlights the party’s absence of a clear rationale
The Newcastle trial of Graeme Lawrence
The second most senior churchman in Australia to be found guilty of child sexual abuse
Victoria’s royal commission hears stories of a dysfunctional, under-resourced mental health system
The security business partnering with domestic violence services to help women and children escape abuse
Luke Cornish’s Border Force mural at Bondi Beach comes under attack
Vox
Arts & Letters
Our largest sexual organ: Amee Baird’s ‘Sex in the Brain’
We know surprisingly little about how our brains orchestrate our sex lives
Tasmanian torments: Jennifer Kent’s ‘The Nightingale’
The Babadook director talks about the necessity of violence in her colonial drama
How can we be transformed by music if online platforms mean we will always remain ourselves?
Noted
‘Lambs of God’ Director Jeffrey Walker blends ripe melodrama and Gothic thriller in his TV series about three wayward nuns
‘Here Until August’ by Josephine Rowe The Australian author’s second short-story collection focuses on the precipice of change rather than its culmination
‘The Godmother’ by Hannelore Cayre A sardonic French bestseller about a godmother, in the organised crime sense of the word
