Meanjin Vol 81, No 2

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• Publisher: Meanjin Digital
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9780522878493
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Essays
• Index: Literature

'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.In other essays: Yves Rees considers the enthusiasm for sobriety amongst younger Australians, John Kinsella writes on 'Ecojustice Poetics and the Universalism of Rights', Ben Eltham details the Morrison Government's legacy of corrupt behaviour, Michael Winkler reveals his writerly 'struggle with structure', Elizabeth Humphrys on the muddy historical remains left by the Westgate Bridge collapse, Subhash Jaireth on the tragedy of lost Indigenous languages, Amaryllis Gacioppo considers the opening virgin, a remarkable religious artefact from the fifteenth century, Elina Abou Sleiman revisits the 2002 protests at the Woomera immigration detention centre, Jenny Sinclair goes in search of nineteenth-century colour for her writing, Chloe Ward revisits Nevil Shute's On The Beach in a new moment of nuclear anxiety, and Lucy Sussex introduces us to Sir Julius Vogel and 'A Feminist, Imperialist Utopia'.New fiction from: Karen Wyld, James Bradley, Jane O'Sullivan and Michelle See-Tho.Poetry from: Ashleigh Synnott, Alicia Sometimes, Glenn McPherson, Ben Qin, Simeon Kronenberg, Meredi Ortega, Michael Mintrom, David Brooks, Samuel Watson and Sarah Day.Memoir from: Madison Griffiths, Jessica L. Wilkinson, Sue Hall Pyke and Hila Shachar.Reviews from: Alex Gerrans, Elese Dowden, Megan Cheong, Isabella Gullifer-Laurie, Reuben Mackey, and Muhib Nabulsi.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Editorial Jonathan Green
• 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
• 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 Georgina Woods
• This Is Not Journalism Margaret Simons
• Scripture Of The Heaviest Kind Madison Griffiths
• Meeting Selena Sue Hall Pyke
• Leavings Jessica L. Wilkinson
• This Must Be Very Strange Hila Shachar
• Fire, Flood, Sleep James Bradley
• The Visible Heart Karen Wyld
• Skin And Scale Michelle See-Tho
• Soroche Jane O’Sullivan
• In The Name Of __________ Muhib Nabulsi
• Something For The Pain Reuben Mackey
• Boredom-Core Gore In Neocolonial Australia Elese Dowden
• Contiguity Isabella Gullifer-Laurie
• Return And Repeat Alex Gerrans
• The Art Of Motherhood Megan Cheong
• Poetry contributors