Meanjin Quarterly
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Celebrate 85 years of Meanjin.
Issue 84.3 is out on 16 September and the final 85th Anniversary edition is out on 1 December.
Issue 84.3 is out on 16 September and the final 85th Anniversary edition is out on 1 December.
Plenty more great reading in the latest Meanjin. Embrace Australia’s finest writers—
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84.1 Autumn 2025
Published 19 March 2025 BUY | SUBSCRIBE Energy and life and the body. Disappointment and passion and pride. The inexorable labour of working toward the just. The work of desire, the work of …
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May 2, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Plenty more great reading in the latest Meanjin. Embrace Australia’s finest writers—
meanjin.com.au/edition/84-1...
meanjin.com.au/edition/84-1...
“A Coalition senator… let a fundamental truth drop.
‘Cognitive science indicates a thing called the illusory truth effect—that if you say it often enough, people will start to believe it’…”
‘Dutton: A catalogue of falsehoods’ by @danielhurst.bsky.social meanjin.com.au/essays/dutto...
‘Cognitive science indicates a thing called the illusory truth effect—that if you say it often enough, people will start to believe it’…”
‘Dutton: A catalogue of falsehoods’ by @danielhurst.bsky.social meanjin.com.au/essays/dutto...
Dutton: a catalogue of falsehoods
A Coalition senator was in the middle of a debate about foreign policy when he let a fundamental truth drop. ‘Cognitive science indicates a thing called the illusory truth effect—that if you say it…
meanjin.com.au
May 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM
“A Coalition senator… let a fundamental truth drop.
‘Cognitive science indicates a thing called the illusory truth effect—that if you say it often enough, people will start to believe it’…”
‘Dutton: A catalogue of falsehoods’ by @danielhurst.bsky.social meanjin.com.au/essays/dutto...
‘Cognitive science indicates a thing called the illusory truth effect—that if you say it often enough, people will start to believe it’…”
‘Dutton: A catalogue of falsehoods’ by @danielhurst.bsky.social meanjin.com.au/essays/dutto...
“For young people today, buying a home without help or inheritance has become something of a Sisyphean task (it is worth noting I fall into the latter camp)…”
‘Thou shalt not covet thy prime minister’s property’ by @rachelwithers.bsky.social meanjin.com.au/essays/thou-...
‘Thou shalt not covet thy prime minister’s property’ by @rachelwithers.bsky.social meanjin.com.au/essays/thou-...
Thou shalt not covet thy prime minister’s property
It was not Anthony Albanese’s beach house we resented, but the intergenerational inequity his government is unwilling to address. ‘As a prime minister, I earn a good income. I understand tha…
meanjin.com.au
May 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
“For young people today, buying a home without help or inheritance has become something of a Sisyphean task (it is worth noting I fall into the latter camp)…”
‘Thou shalt not covet thy prime minister’s property’ by @rachelwithers.bsky.social meanjin.com.au/essays/thou-...
‘Thou shalt not covet thy prime minister’s property’ by @rachelwithers.bsky.social meanjin.com.au/essays/thou-...
and Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn reviews Batmanians by Sammy Oravec:
'Guided by star signs and SSRIs, Oravec’s dreamy, shambolic prose merges individual narratives into a collective hallucination.'
meanjin.com.au/latest/where...
'Guided by star signs and SSRIs, Oravec’s dreamy, shambolic prose merges individual narratives into a collective hallucination.'
meanjin.com.au/latest/where...
Where to Now?
‘You know Melbourne was at one stage slated to go by the name of Batman. We’d be Batmanians by now.’
meanjin.com.au
April 2, 2025 at 3:28 AM
and Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn reviews Batmanians by Sammy Oravec:
'Guided by star signs and SSRIs, Oravec’s dreamy, shambolic prose merges individual narratives into a collective hallucination.'
meanjin.com.au/latest/where...
'Guided by star signs and SSRIs, Oravec’s dreamy, shambolic prose merges individual narratives into a collective hallucination.'
meanjin.com.au/latest/where...