Affairs / Politics
Oceania briefing
Rebranding Fiji's regime, saving butterflies in Papua New Guinea, and the wonder of ore in Western Australia.
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Edits / Industry
Expo 51: Black gold
The mining boom in Western Australia has seen both the natural and economic landscapes transformed. New services fly thousands of workers in and out each week. So Monocle went to dig a little deeper.
The Globalist, episode 217
A look at how US arms sales have tripled, why Madrid is becoming a design capital, and the possible lifting of western Australia’s shark-hunting ban.
Design / Craft
Joint effort
Midland Atelier is a design powerhouse that attracts people to train from all over the world and offers opportunities to local creative talent. In Western Australia, where mining is the major industry, it’s a breath of…
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Monday 29 October
Australian immigration is less scary than we think
It’s that time of year when cities around the world become draped in fake cobwebs and pretend they’re American.
Affairs / Society
Oceania briefing
A mining town in Queensland goes solar, Rugby Union eyes up Asia, plus Sydney isn't holding its breath over new metro plans.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Friday 27 January
Burma’s parliament holds the key for new investment
When Burma’s new parliament first opened just one year ago, it was roundly dismissed as a front which the country’s authoritarian rulers would use to rubber-stamp their decisions.
Affairs / Politics
Oceania briefing
Winds of change strike the gassy cattle of Australia and preaching to the converted in the Cook Islands.
Edits / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Saturday 30 October
The Foreign Ministry’s wine stash discovery
The Japanese sure don’t shy away from a shandy – yet when the Japanese Foreign Ministry recently conducted an audit of its embassies, consulates and government offices abroad, even they found the stocks sobering.
Affairs / Transport
Oceania Briefing
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.
Affairs / Government
Talk about Kevin
Kevin Rudd, Australia’s former prime minister and now foreign minister, talks to Monocle about engagement with Asia, defence spending and whether he wants his old job back.
Culture / Arts
Monocolumn
Friday 5 August
Weekend agenda: 6/7 August
Something for your weekend: Monocle’s global selection includes an inaugural Polish film festival, landscape paintings in Sydney and the return of a leading contemporary art expo in Japan.
Affairs / Politics
Oceania briefing
Sydney's waterless car wash and America's "Year of the Pacific".
Affairs / Society
Oceania Briefing
Perth's catch-up to Australia's cultural hubs of Sydney and Melbourne, failure of negotiations between Auckland's port and its striking workers, and solutions to Australia's 1.7 per cent annual population growth.
Affairs / Society
Oceania Briefing
Lawn bowls undergoes a youth revolution in Australia, and New Zealand finally dumps a confusing traffic law.
Affairs / Politics
Oceania briefing
Boeing flies into Australia, plus re-imagining Syndey.
Culture / Books
Monocolumn
Thursday 17 December
Rethinking North Korea
Not content with penning the most savage attack on American literature in decades, US academic Brian Myers has produced a book destined to shatter conventional assumptions about the world’s most mysterious nation.
Affairs / Society
Oceania Briefing
New Zealanders' blasé attitude to living on top of a massive fault line, plus how Fiji's leader has dealt with his ex-convict brother-in-law - by appointing him to a top rugby position.