Published 15 June 2022
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‘Part of the story of the decline in Australian journalism can be told with data and dollars. Part of it is about belief and culture — a crisis of faith.’ In her cover essay ‘This Is Not Journalism’, writer and journalism academic Margaret Simons takes a long hard look at both the history and current practice of Australian journalism, its trials, successes and many failures. Is journalism accountable? Does it feed the public conversation or poison it? Is it a craft in serious need of reinvention? Simons pulls no punches in her critique of a profession close to her heart.
Meanjin Papers
THIS IS NOT JOURNALISM
Margaret Simons
Up Front
NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
Ben Eltham
MOVING ON U.P.P.
Michael Winkler
HOW MY BLACK AND INDIGENOUS GRANDPARENTS REMIND ME OF MY WHITE PRIVILEGE
Natalia Figueroa Barroso
GULP, SWALLOW
Brooke Boland
MUD
Elizabeth Humphrys
OUT OF WOOMERA
Elina Abou Sleiman
Essays
AUSTRALIA IN THREE BOOKS
Maks Sipowicz
THE END OF THE WEST (1922-2022)
Toby Miller
‘NEVER CEDED OR EXTINGUISHED’: THE AUSTRALIAN SOVEREIGNTY DEBATES
David Kearns
WEATHERING, TETHERING, TRANSFORMING
Catherine McKinnon
ECOJUSTICE POETICS AND THE UNIVERSALISM OF RIGHTS
John Kinsella
ADVENTURES IN THE NEW SOBRIETY
Yves Rees
GLOSSATALGIA
Subhash Jaireth
VIERGE OUVRANTE, OPENING VIRGIN
Amaryllis Gacioppo
STEPPING BACK INTO THE PAST
Jenny Sinclair
ON THE BEACH, OUT OF APATHY
Chloe Ward
A FEMINIST, IMPERIALIST UTOPIA
Lucy Sussex
COMMENCE TRANSMISSION
Georgia Woods
Memoir
SCRIPTURE OF THE HEAVIEST KIND
Madison Griffiths
MEETING SELENA
Sue Hall Pyke
LEAVINGS
Jessica L. Wilkinson
THIS MUST BE VERY STRANGE
Hila Shachar
Fiction
FIRE, FLOOD, SLEEP
James Bradley
THE VISIBLE HEART
Karen Wyld
SKIN AND SCALE
Michelle See-Tho
SOROCHE
Jane O’Sullivan
Reviews
IN THE NAME OF ________
Muhib Nabulsi
SOMETHING FOR THE PAIN
Reuben Mackey
BOREDOM-CORE GORE IN NEO-COLONIAL AUSTRALIA
Elese Dowden
CONTIGUITY
Isabella Gullifer-Laurie
RETURN AND REPEAT
Alex Gerrans
THE ART OF MOTHERHOOD
Megan Cheong
