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Artful lodgers: The Heide Museum of Modern Art | The Monthly
WEBOct 1, 2021 · There’s lots to enjoy about a visit to Melbourne’s Heide Museum of Modern Art, not least how the city recedes steadily in the rear-view mirror and is soon replaced by quieter rhythms: the way the snaking path of the Yarra River can be sensed close by, even when it’s not seen, or the way, once you arrive, there’s such …
Transforming the national imagination: The ‘Dark Emu’ debate
WEBJul 1, 2021 · It is strange that, for someone with Tasmanian Aboriginal ancestry, Bruce Pascoe largely ignores Tasmania when reimagining pre-conquest Aboriginal life in his publishing sensation, Dark Emu. It is difficult to know how Pascoe would depict ancestors who shared few of the technologies he celebrates as markers of …
Daniel Mannix & BA Santamaria - The Monthly
WEBOct 1, 2008 · In 1935 to be Catholic was to be Irish, and the hierarchy ruled its flock with a firm doctrinal hand and an unchallenged tribal authority - no one more so than Daniel Mannix, the venerable Cork-born archbishop of Melbourne. Tall, gaunt and magisterial, Mannix was already ancient. Born in 1864, he had become a contentious ecclesiastical figure in the Irish nationalist movement.
Dismembering government : New public management and why …
WEBSep 1, 2021 · “I don’t hold a hose, mate.” Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s notorious remark, made to radio 2GB from his hotel in Hawaii at the height of the bushfire disaster of 2019–20, was widely seen as an evasion of personal responsibility in a national emergency. But it could equally be regarded, as pointed out by historian Stuart Macintyre among others, as an expression of the federal ...
Thea Proctor & Margaret Preston - The Monthly
WEBNov 5, 2008 · Until the cakes started to fly, the two artists were something of a mutual admiration society. Thea Proctor was elegant, tasteful and generous, while Margaret Preston was flamboyant and stubbornly single-minded. One painted ladies on fans, the other preferred bottlebrush and banksia. But temperament and subject matter aside, they had much in common.
A patch of land - The Monthly
WEBDec 1, 2022 · It is light, just. The sun is a long way from breaking over the ocean horizon, distinguishable in the dimness some kilometres away. It is unbelievably still, but the air is full of movement. You can sense the birds stirring. The animals going home for the night. There is the faint crashing sound of the ocean. I creep through the house, past the room where my small daughter sleeps amid a corona ...
Eastern blocked: Lea Ypi’s ‘Free’ - The Monthly
WEBFeb 1, 2022 · The turning point of the book is the regime’s collapse in December 1990, and 11-year-old Lea’s discovery of the distinctly “un-free” character of her homeland, with its labour camps stuffed with dissidents and widespread poverty among the population. The declared dictatorship of the proletariat – a temporary step on the way to ...
Spotlight: How the teals really won, with Simon Holmes à Court
WEBOne of the most consequential political shifts of 2022 was the election of several ‘teal’ independent candidates to the federal parliament. The teals were mostly professional women who ran in traditionally Liberal-held seats, and campaigned on climate, integrity, and equality. Their election en masse was a shock to the Liberal party, and could herald a more permanent shift away from the ...
Somerton Man: the science and the myths - The Monthly
WEBSep 1, 2022 · At last, the identity of Somerton Man, found dead on an Adelaide beach 73 years ago, has been discovered. Thanks to a DNA study of a hair shaft and a long process of elimination, a team led by Adelaide University Professor Derek Abbott and forensic genealogist Colleen Fitzpatrick has revealed that the mystery man was, with 99.9 per cent certainty, Carl “Charles” Webb, who was visiting ...
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