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Despite their highly criticised lockdowns, Daniel Andrews and Annastacia Palaszczuk remain popular in the polls ...

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Coming back to Perth after a decent stint away, one can feel a bit like Rip Van Winkle waking from his 20-year snooze to find his village near unrecognisable, the American Revolution having come and ...

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Wall Street Journal reporter Emily Glazer, on whether the SpaceX CEO can really upend NASA’s return to the moon. Elon Musk is pressing NASA to abandon its planned journeys to the moon – projects that ...

This is an essential hour of news, culture and ideas that gives you an insight into each issue of the magazine. Editor Nick Feik is joined by The Monthly’s contributors and the people they write about ...