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Robodebt and the transmission of shame - The Monthly
WEBDec 1, 2022 · Kathryn Campbell stifled a laugh when, in September 2018, she recalled the rollout of the robodebt program during her time as head of the Department of Human Services. “What happened was a number of the letters went out and people didn’t either receive the letters or respond to the letters. And the first they heard about it was when the debt collector rocked up to ask them to repay the ...
Terri Butler’s rise through the rancour - The Monthly
WEBMay 1, 2019 · Terri Butler has a soul. If that seems metaphysically self-evident, it can’t be taken for granted among current MPs. Labor’s successor to Kevin Rudd in the Brisbane electorate of Griffith is an unapologetic nerd. She has publicly confessed to playing oboe in high school plus obsessions with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Marvel comic books and punk rock, boasting in her memoir that progressives ...
Listening to country: ‘Fractures & Frequencies’ and ‘Infractions’
WEBMar 1, 2021 · The bush stone-curlew is a ground-dwelling, brownish bird with drooping tail feathers and spindly, L-shaped legs. Its most distinctive characteristic is its descending, doleful call – “a ghost-like ‘weer-lo’ sound”, writes artist Megan Cope – often heard at dusk or at night. This call forms the basis of Cope’s sound sculpture Untitled (Death Song), on show in Fractures ...
Return of the devil - The Monthly
WEBSep 1, 2021 · When seven Tasmanian devils were born north of Sydney in May, they were the first born on the Australian mainland in 3000 years. Fossil records show that Sarcophilus harrisii were once found across much of south-east and central Australia, and as far west as the Kimberley, where they are depicted in rock paintings. Until sea levels rose between 8000 and 11,000 years ago, a land bridge ...
Hilary Mantel, my mother and me - The Monthly
WEBOct 5, 2022 · When my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, I asked if she had any regrets. Without missing a beat, she said, “I might not live to read the sequel to Wolf Hall.” This was late 2010. Wolf Hall had been released the year before and my mother, long fascinated by Tudor history, had relished it. She would later be embarrassed that in the face of death she’d expressed the desire to read ...
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 …
The curious mind of King Charles III
WEBNov 1, 2022 · On the balmy evening of Australia Day 1994, as Prince Charles rose to address an outdoor gathering at Sydney’s Darling Harbour, a young man, an anthropology student it turned out, fired two shots from a starting pistol and charged wildly onto the rostrum. In an instant, a scrum of besuited local men, including the premier of New South Wales, leapt to their feet, and set upon the slender ...
The trenches of Mount Druitt: OneFour - The Monthly
WEBSep 1, 2020 · A palm tree blows in the wind outside a white fibro house. Two mattresses are leaning against a wooden fence. There are broken bicycles and broken windows. Sporting long braids, tracksuits and Gucci caps, a gang of rappers have come home to Mount Druitt, in Sydney’s west. Hulking and charismatic, J Emz stares down the barrel of the camera and ...
Planetary defence - The Monthly
WEBJul 1, 2021 · One Sunday in August, 93 years ago, May Donoghue was enjoying an ice-cream float at a cafe in Paisley, Scotland. But when her companion poured more ginger beer into the float, a decomposed snail fell from the bottle. Donoghue fell ill. That incident would become immortalised in legal history – Donoghue sued the ginger beer manufacturer, David Stevenson, and the law of negligence was born.