Go figure
How did Labor end up with an emissions-reduction target of just 43 per cent?August 2005
Arts & Letters
Drought essay: Recognising the derision as fear
Death gets into the suburbs, but sleek
turnover highrise keeps it out of mind
and wilderness, wrapped in its own deaths,
scarcely points us at ours,
but furred rusty machines, and grey
boards unglazed for heritage or holiday –
you can’t truck in enough bricks.
Settled country is the land of the dead,
there you are taught love as mourning,
you shop in boarded-up places.
It’s great to follow car-dust
out towards the Mistake,
way past a working people’s farm,
long widowed, standing in space.
‘Get Back’ is ‘slow TV’ for Beatles nuts
Despite plenty of magical moments, Peter Jackson’s eight-hour epic is the work of a fanatic, and will likely only be watched in full by other fanatics
Declaration of independents
The success of Indi MP Helen Haines points to more non-aligned voices in parliament
New kid on the block: The Kid Laroi
How Australia has overlooked its biggest global music star, an Indigenous hip-hop prodigy
On Her Majesty’s secret disservice
The reporter who uncovered the truth about Kim Philby, the 20th century’s most infamous spy, and his warnings for democratic society
The artist making sculpture for penguins
How creating sculpture for animals is transforming wildlife conservation and the art world
The fossil-fuel industry’s grip on Australian hearts and minds
Is there hope that public misconceptions of the importance of coal and gas can be overcome?
The unhinged pursuit of profit is destroying us
To undo the worst of neoliberalism we need to target need, rather than race or identity‘Get Back’ is ‘slow TV’ for Beatles nuts
Despite plenty of magical moments, Peter Jackson’s eight-hour epic is the work of a fanatic, and will likely only be watched in full by other fanatics
Candid camera: ‘How To with John Wilson’
Both delightfully droll and genuinely moving, John Wilson’s idiosyncratic documentary series is this month’s streaming standout
Slow motions: Clint Eastwood’s ‘Cry Macho’
Despite patient filmmaking, the 91-year-old director’s elegiac feature is unable to escape the legend of the man
End of the road: The Anthony Bourdain documentary ‘Roadrunner’
Morgan Neville’s posthumous examination of the celebrity chef hews close to the familiar narrative
