What 'tough on crime' means in Queensland | The Monthly
网页2 天之前 · The Liberal National Party has been in the political wilderness in Queensland for most of the past three decades. But in a month’s time that’s likely to change, after an election campaign fought on youth crime. Yesterday, David Crisafulli announced courts would be able to access young people’s full criminal histories, even after …
Easey Street and ‘the boy with the knife’ | The Monthly
网页4 天之前 · If you ask a Melbourne local, almost all of them would have heard of the 1977 Easey Street murders. In one of Victoria’s most brutal unsolved killings, two women in their 20s were stabbed dozens of times in their home on Easey Street in Collingwood. Now, after 47 years and examining over 130 “persons of interest”, police have finally made an arrest.
‘Muzzling’ advocates: the Albanese government’s reliance on NDAs
网页3 天之前 · In more than 30 years of lobbying for gambling reforms, Tim Costello says no government has tried to silence him through the use of a legally binding non-disclosure agreement. That’s until the Albanese government asked him to sign an NDA as part of lobbying the government on new gambling advertising laws. The chief advocate for the Alliance for Gambling Reform says he believes its purpose ...
Once upon a time in America - The Monthly
网页2024年9月1日 · Thanks for reading this free article. There is nowhere quite like The Monthly.We are told that we live in a time of diminished attention spans; a time where the 24-hour-news-cycle has produced a collective desire for hot takes and brief summaries of the news and ideas that effect us.
The tipping point: Visiting one of the country’s massive landfill …
网页2024年9月1日 · It is a bitterly cold day in July when I arrive at Cleanaway’s Lucas Heights Resource Recovery Park on Sydney’s southern edge. Standing in the car park, I stare at the huge hill that rises up behind it, its sides a scree of pale rock and dirt. Thick black pipes snake here and there across its surface, like some outsized watering system, while several hundred metres away, just over the ...
Fake artwork and discrimination: The MONA Ladies Lounge saga
网页2024年9月20日 · In a court case earlier this year, an art installation at Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art that was designed to playfully poke at the historic and ongoing disadvantages faced by women was found to be discriminatory. MONA’s Ladies Lounge was a small, private room within the museum, bordered by silk green curtains and open only to those who identify as “ladies”.
TikTok politics: Very demure, very Dutton | The Monthly
网页5 天之前 · Peter Dutton is now on TikTok, and his first post was about as inspiring as you might imagine. It’s shot in an office, he’s wearing a suit, and he’s talking about housing. It’s easy to see this as a case of trying to appeal to the kids. But it’s also a sign of a broader trend among Australian politicians, with around a third of them now on TikTok and more likely to join the platform.
Kate Atkinson’s ‘Death at the Sign of the Rook’
网页2024年9月1日 · Started early, took my cat. Reading the new Jackson Brodie adventure – Brodie being Kate Atkinson’s droll, complicated and hot private investigator. Back in bed. It’s zero outside. The bird baths were frozen when the cat and I went out at dawn. Now, the cat at my feet, three pillows behind my head, an electric blanket on four and Atkinson’s pages in my hands, I’m prepared for ...
Gideon Haigh’s ‘My Brother Jaz’ - The Monthly
网页2024年9月1日 · The Australian writer Gideon Haigh explores the loss of his teenage brother Jaz, who died in a car accident in 1987, in a courageous and honest book. He blends his personal inquest with the official one, and confronts his own grief, depression and flaws.
Jim Chalmers, Angus Taylor and the future of the Reserve Bank
网页2024年9月17日 · When Jim Chalmers said that interest rate hikes were “smashing the economy” he was either stating the obvious or starting a war, depending on who you ask. For weeks – in question time and in the news – a picture has been forming of an aggrieved treasurer, angry at the governor of the Reserve Bank. At the same time, senior unnamed Labor insiders have called Michelle Bullock a “nutter ...