The Monthly

November issue on newsstands Monday (online today for subscribers), featuring a cover essay investigation of The Resilience Project, the schools wellbeing program with a questionable evidence base. Plus Alan Kohler, Margaret Simons, Ted Chiang and more.
themonthly.com.au/magazine/novem…

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Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop was conceived in secret. Board members of the government agency responsible for its delivery knew nothing about it. There was no proper business case. When it was announced, the head of the Transport Department resigned.
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Van Cuylenburg was not an expert in positive psychology. There had been no randomised controlled trials of GEM. It might be argued that van Cuylenburg conducted what became an enormous, uncontrolled experiment on Australian schoolkids – for profit.
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While this image becomes pivotal to Eva, this drawing is a fiction created by Williams while observing another drawing by the very real Iso Rae. Here the factual and fictional worlds collide, creating a potent tale of horror and passion.
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