In 1964, a young Hunter S. Thompson set out for the mountain village that his hero Ernest Hemingway had called home for the ...

The university course helping the next generation of doctors address patients’ sexual and reproductive health concerns ...

Almost 25 years after the September 11 attacks prompted rapid changes to Australia’s terrorism laws, the definition of what a ...

There is an uncritical but flawed assumption that Aboriginal people are unquestionably Australian republicans. Professor Marcia Langton, responding to republican ridicule of the pomp and circumstance ...

But take the whole fate-of-the-nation mystique out of it and the cabinet room is just another airless enclave with a big table and no windows. After being locked in there for three nine-plus-hour days ...

Australia's leading current affairs magazineIn 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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Our nation’s economists have a price on your head, dead or alive Human life isn’t priceless. Yours might be, to you, but as a society we put a price on human lives all the time. Courts, insurance ...

When Gerd Buchdahl was released from Tatura, his camp mates presented him with two woodcuts by the Bauhaus graduate Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack. One woodcut depicted everyday life at the camp; the other, ...