Researchers are testing the likelihood of AI turning on us – and the possibilities are at best alarming ...

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s demotion to the backbenches was, perhaps, inevitable, and has its origins in Liberal leadership ...

The first known film by an African-American lesbian, Cheryl Dunye’s debut from 1996 blends documentary and narrative ...

In trying to explain the purpose of our armed forces, defence ministers often fall back on that plangent phrase “the defence of Australia”. In a recent speech to the Australian Strategic Policy ...

Modern environmental sensibility has not increased the number of Australians who are able to imagine what our dominant homelands – the coastlands of the temperate zone – were like before European ...

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New public management and why the Commonwealth government can’t do anything anymore “I don’t hold a hose, mate.” Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s notorious remark, made to radio 2GB from his hotel in ...

Erin Patterson’s notoriety, and the consuming public fascination with her triple-murder case, adds another layer to her ...

Trent Parke, ‘Geraldton, WA’, 2006, type C print, 114 x 145 cm, edition of 8 + 2AP. Image courtesy the artist and Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin A reflection on the process and burden of creating an ...

Revisiting trauma is not the road to justice for Aboriginal people It is rather odd that in Australia, unlike the rest of the world, there is a naive belief that truth comes before justice, truth ...

The Monthly has chosen to temporarily remove Louise Milligan’s recent essay from our website. We have been made aware of an active case that is about to come before the courts that had not been ...

Wind farm near Albany, Western Australia / CC BY-SA 2.5 The government’s climate-action agenda has its predictable detractors, but the current decentralised approach is risking a fall in wider public ...