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Announcement: Next week marks one year since the failed Voice referendum. To mark this moment, 7am is publishing a three-part series hosted and reported by Yorta Yorta journalist Daniel James. The series will be published from Monday, October 14, 2024.

Paddy Manning – investigative journalist and host of our series Rupert: The Last Mogul – will tonight premiere the first of a three-part documentary on Lachlan Murdoch with Australian Story. Revisit our deep-dive into the Murdoch family, and what drove Rupert from running a small newspaper in Adelaide to become the first global media mogul.

The Monthly's September issue is out now. Featuring Stan Grant on why the US election won’t save America, James Bradley on how we deal with our waste, and Katherine Wilson on the “ag-gag” laws protecting the meat industry. Also, Monique Hurley and Maggie Munn on raising the age of criminal responsibility, Philipp McGuinness on Margaret Fulton, Stephen Romei on Gideon Haigh’s memoir, and Sasha Gattermayr on a national prison newspaper. Plus Cate Kennedy on appliances and ear worms, Michael Williams reviewing Rachel Kushner and Percival Everett, Brodie Lancaster on ‘Kneecap’, and more. Read online at themonthly.com.au

Today on 7am, co-chair of the First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria, Ngarra Murray, on how this moment was reached, and how instructive it will be for the rest of the country as it grapples with what happens next.

The Albanese government celebrated Julian Assange’s release, but is its commitment to a free press translating into legislative change? ESSAY by Malcolm Knox

A way forward after the Voice COMMENT by Marcia Langton "Essentially, Albanese is trying to replace the Voice with an economic partnership. It is a convenient and expedient arrangement. The question of self-determination and the principle of Indigenous Australians being at the table to guide policy has been partly resolved by creating this new initiative with the Coalition of Peaks as a partnership."

Exclusive: ADF soldiers accused of burning five men alive Villagers in Uruzgan alleged foreign forces burnt five men to death after tying their hands, with some saying the soldiers responsible were Australian. By Michelle Jasmin Dimasi.

Peter Dutton and Palestine The Saturday Paper | Editorial | August 17 – 23, 2024 “Dutton didn’t speak to his party room before calling for a ban on visas to Palestinians. He didn’t need to. There is an understanding within the Coalition, going back at least two decades, that race is the answer to most problems.“

The Monthly August issue 2024 – OUT NOW The news that, after more than 14 years of public overtures and backroom negotiations, Julian Assange was finally to be freed and sent home to Australia felt not just momentous but like the end of an unhappy chapter for our notions of public speech and journalistic freedoms. It was an impression bolstered by the alacrity with which our lawmakers publicly celebrated the outcome: prime ministers past and present, attorneys-general and other ministers lined up to herald this as a consequential moment. In the August issue of The Monthly, we consider the question of how earnt that feeling might be, from two distinct but parallel perspectives. Kieran Pender looks as the fortunes of whistleblowers and whistleblowing laws under the Albanese government, while Malcolm Knox asks whether lovers of serious journalism have cause for confidence about what comes next. Elsewhere in the issue, we have multiple considerations on the selling of ideas: the moments when political imperative or commercial ambition require the mounting of a persuasive case for change. Jenny Sinclair goes beyond the slogan to explore the dangers and the motivations behind a “Bex and a good lie down” and what the old practice of foisting addictive pharmaceutical powders on housewives suggests about the way women have been historically controlled. Royce Kurmelovs takes us back to a time when the gas industry was compelled to convince Australians that it represented a cleaner, safer energy answer; a campaign whose legacy is powerfully felt today in public debate. And science writer Jackson Ryan breaks the first rule of the internet and finds himself engaging with an online critic who has taken issue with his defence of climate science. It’s a lovely, personal account of trying to change someone’s mind at a time when public debate is increasingly polarised. Through correspondence and, ultimately, travel to North America, Ryan forms a strange friendship, across disagreement, towards something resembling persuasion. Plus there’s Daniel Browning’s tribute to the career and legacy of the late artist Destiny Deacon, Frank Bongiorno offering a history of old age in Australian politics, Indigo Perry on telling stories around the vagaries of memory and the shadow of loss, Evie Wyld feeling homesick and more besides. Pick up a copy today or read online: themonthly.com.au

The downfall of former CFMEU Victorian secretary John Setka has left the union in turmoil and the Labor Party in damage control – and they all saw it coming. By Martin McKenzie-Murray.