Cover story for this issue finds a Pulitzer Prize-winner spending time with the prime minister on the eve of a federal election. Anthony Albanese discusses his first term with Geraldine Brooks: the highs, the lows, the general state of Australias democracy.
Ceridwen Spark returns to the specific milieu of the university campus, asking how much - in the wake of the #MeToo movement - things have changed and our understanding of power dynamics might have grown. Anna Krien explores the story of Pam the Bird, is this street art or graffiti vandalism. Architecture critic David Neustein turns his attention to the big screen, with new release The Brutalist attracting Oscar buzz. As well as Jackson Ryan on a scandal in space science, Margaret Simons on the death of a think tank, Clare Wright goes electric and Peter Craven mentions the Scottish Play.
