Wednesday 12 December
One of Monocle's Aussie staff members is pleased to be heading home for the holiday season but concerned that his native land hasn't been making much progress in his absence.
Thursday 10 December
Australians like to think in widescreen: big skies, big, dry stretches of land, big oceans. And now you can add big houses to that list.
Australia heads into a housing bubble, while in Christchurch the nightlife heads to the suburbs. Plus, we speak to the man in charge of rebuilding post-earthquake New Zealand.
Canberra celebrates its centenary, New Zealand gets building and Tonga gets broadcasting (in Chinese).
Do too many diplomats and NGOs spoil a city? Brussels, Ottawa, Canberra and even DC have a lot to answer for in the dull stakes, but what’s a capital city to do? Become both an economic and administrative hub? Or simply…
As Canberra celebrates its centenary we ask what works and what doesn’t in a created capital. We also speak to the director of an organisation mapping radiation levels since Japan’s disastrous earthquake and tsunami and…
Thursday 17 February
Josefa Iloilo, the former Fijian president whose scrapping of his island nation’s constitution cemented the grip of a 2006 military coup that isolated his country, has died aged 91.
Nauru's political woes, Sydney's housing price price slide and a Samoan film tipped for the big time.
With a pivotal geographic location, a vibrant media culture uniting both Asian and European markets and a flourishing defence sector, Australia is in a prime position to become a new, fresh-faced regional power.
Tuesday 2 November
The Murray-Darling Basin is a 1,162 sq km area that spans four states within the southeastern perimeter of Australia.
What Australian PM Kevin Rudd uses to get around, the PE teacher crusading for a revival of Maori sports, and the new city in the Aussie outback.
Wednesday 24 March
On 15 March, Canadian embassies and consulates around the world were subjected to rare displays of political theatre, much of it both angry and scantily clad.
MONOCLE interviews the commander of the Norwegian Coast Guard and reports on military deals in Afganistan and Australia.
We meet Timor-Leste's man in Australia and bring you more dispatches from the diplomatic world.
Sombre, elegant and transparent, this is everything a courthouse should be. The winning design is by 3XN, Lemming & Eriksson Engineers and landscape designers Schønherr Landskab. The building is an extension to the existing…
A Q&A with Christie's Australian art specialist, plus the Muscovite gallery Regina moves into London's Fitzrovia.
The latest from the Pacific islands, including a sanitation crisis in Tuvalu and the phasing of Vanuatu's handwritten passport.
National identity in Australia, Tonga and Fiji's territorial dispute and rugby World Cup headache in New Zealand.
Australian PM Julia Gillard finds fashion and New Zealand discovers its very own species of white shark.
The foreign land ownership debate in New Zealand, Cuba's bid to send doctors Oceania-way and Tonga finally gets connected to the rest of the world.
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