Published 13 September 2024
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Meanjin writers rethink the monarchy, the Australian constitution, and Australia itself. Poetry, fiction, memoir, essays, experiments . . . Embrace Australia’s finest writers.
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WELL, IT’S BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY, REALLY—
Mike Ross
EDITORIAL
Esther Anatolitis
Σταθία Ανατολίτη
State of the Nation
REMNANTS OF EMPIRE: RACISM, POWER AND ROYAL PRIVILEGE
Jenny Hocking
LUCKY FOR SOME: DONALD HORNE’S THE LUCKY COUNTRY AT 60
Frank Bongiorno
Fiction
THE FEELING BONES
Lucy Nelson
THE LAST MASKED OWL
David Cohen
THE OTHER DOCTOR
James Salvius Cheng
NOT-JOHN
Jonathan Ricketson
WHEN THE SAINTS MARCH INTO THE W HOTEL
Valerie Ng
THAT GOLDEN HOUR
Andrea Pavleka
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED! KILL MALWARE HITCHHIKER
Adam Brannigan
Interview
Ellen van Neerven
Memoir
CROCODILE
Ella Ferris
LOVE IS WORSHIP
Adrian Mouhajer
DIRTY THINGS, PRECIOUS THINGS
Anna Hickey-Moody
Books
AUSTRALIA IN THREE BOOKS
Olivia Nigro
CONVERSATIONS WITH GHOSTS
Timmah Ball
TIME TO BLEED INK, ENERGY DRINK
Aimee Knight
I’M SO JULIA
Michael Sun
CAN RECENT HISTORY SHOW US HOW TO BUILD THE FUTURE?
Revan Oluklu
THE FRIENDSHIP PARADOX
Lauren Collee
The Year In…
SATIRE
Shaun Micallef
Essays
THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION, ANNOTATED
Claire G. Coleman
TAIWAN AND THE AUSTRALIAN LEFT
Shaun O’Dwyer
JEWS, ANTISEMITISM AND POWER IN AUSTRALIA
Max Kaiser
CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE, CULTURAL FAILURE
Andy Butler
POP MUSIC AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Charlie Lewis
Experiments
PHOTOGRAPHIC TEXTS
Patrick Pound
FROM THE MIDFIELD
Julien Leyre
Poetry
Mothertongues
Grace Chan
The sunflower of loss
Owen Bullock
The History of Modern China
Sharon Du
Woman in black stockings
Meg Hemmings
God’s Dog
Michael Farrell
Love does not cross the Yarra
Andrew Millar
The women’s shelter
Claire Watson
Author, bookshop
Kevin Brophy
