17-1265: The Monthly is an Australian national magazine of politics, society and the arts, which is published eleven times per year on a monthly basis except the December/January issue. Founded in 2005, it is published by Melbourne property developer Morry Schwartz . Contributors have included Mark Aarons , Waleed Aly , John Birmingham , Peter Conrad , Annabel Crabb , Richard Flanagan , Robert Forster , Anna Funder , Helen Garner , Anna Goldsworthy , Kerryn Goldsworthy , Ramachandra Guha , Gideon Haigh , M. J. Hyland , Linda Jaivin , Clive James , Kate Jennings , Paul Kelly , Benjamin Law , Amanda Lohrey , Mungo MacCallum , Shane Maloney , Robert Manne , David Marr , Maxine McKew , Drusilla Modjeska , Peter Robb , Kevin Rudd , Margaret Simons , Tim Soutphommasane , Lindsay Tanner , Malcolm Turnbull and Don Watson . Essays The magazine generally publishes essays 3,000 to 6,000 words long. The cover stories "Being There", Mark McKenna's investigation of key Australian historian Manning Clark , and Eric Ellis 's profile of Wendi Deng Murdoch –
34-416: A company, Outback Press, the start of his publishing empire. But he also launched a concrete pouring company, Aardvark, which evolved into a property development group, called Pan Urban. In the 1980s he established Schwartz Publishing , mainly publishing American self-help books. Its all-time bestseller was Life's Little Instruction Book , with 300,000 copies sold. In the 1990s Schwartz Publishing set up
51-524: A property developer, based in Melbourne . He is the owner of Schwartz Publishing , the publisher of the influential Quarterly Essay , The Monthly , and The Saturday Paper . Morry Schwartz was born around 1948 in Vámospércs , Hungary. His parents, Andor and Margaret (Baba) Schwartz, were both Holocaust survivors. Andor’s parents, brother and sister, and extended family were murdered during
68-927: The Vietnam War ; this became the Australian Reform Movement and then the Australia Party , one of the precursors of the Australian Democrats . In 1967, he formed the company Tjuringa Securities which was the pioneer Australian corporate raider. Tjuringa took over Federal Hotels (which built the Hobart Casino, the first legal casino in Australia) and the Angus and Robertson bookshops and publishing business which were asset stripped. He also set up two newspapers,
85-512: The 2006 Pascall Prize for Critical Writing for his popular music criticism in The Monthly . The magazine ceased publishing letters from readers early in 2017. No explanation was ever provided for this decision and the website and print version continue to invite their contribution. In November 2021 the option of commenting on articles published online using the Disqus platform was removed. At
102-461: The 2006 Walkley Award for Magazine Feature Writing. The Monthly has published in-depth essays that have impacted on Australian politics and politicians. "The Outcast of Camp Echo : The Punishment of David Hicks " by Alfred W. McCoy , "Faith in Politics" by Kevin Rudd , and " Gunns : Out of Control" by Richard Flanagan have given wider attention to the issues raised beyond the readership of
119-564: The Black Inc imprint, publishing since 2001 the Quarterly Essay and, since 2005, The Monthly . On 1 March 2014 he launched The Saturday Paper , and in 2017 Australian Foreign Affairs, a journal discussing foreign policy . Schwartz was chairman of the board of Schwartz Media until December 2023, when he resigned the position and said that he would be stepping back from hands-on operations. In 1974 Schwartz moved into
136-527: The Holocaust. Baba herself was a survivor of Auschwitz . He and his parents were smuggled across the border to Germany in 1949 when he was one year old, in order to migrate to the newly established state of Israel, where he spent most of the next nine years. A visit from Baba’s sister, who had also survived the Holocaust and had made her home in Australia, convinced Andor that there were new opportunities on
153-432: The company is no longer registered for GST. In 2009, he set up a real estate website, listing only houses for sale valued at over $ 1 million, called thehomepage.com.au. It was owned by start-up company Dog No. 7. Schwartz exited the property development business in late 2017. Schwartz is married to gallery owner Anna Schwartz. Gordon Barton Gordon Page Barton (30 August 1929 – 4 April 2005)
170-837: The construction and property development industry. His company, first named Aardvark, was later renamed Pan Urban. His business barely survived the 1989 property crash. Schwartz was the major stakeholder of Pan Urban in 2014. Its portfolio included the St Falls, Silverski and Huski hotels in Falls Creek, Victoria , the Watergate towers in Docklands and the refurbishment of the Melbourne General Post Office . Several of their projects were designed by his stepdaughter, architect Zahava Elenberg . As of 2023
187-462: The magazine there was a one-page story recalling an unlikely but real historical meeting between two famous individuals, for example "Errol Flynn & Fidel Castro". Encounters was written by Shane Maloney and illustrated by Chris Grosz and was published as a collection in August 2011 by Black Inc. Morry Schwartz Morris Zoltan Schwartz AM (born 1948) is an Australian publisher, formerly
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#1732780645925204-610: The magazine. 50,000 copies of the essay "Gunns: Out of Control" were reprinted for letterboxing in the electorates of Australia's environment minister and opposition environment spokesperson by businessman Geoffrey Cousins who decided to mount a campaign against the proposed Bell Bay Pulp Mill in Tasmania after reading it in The Monthly . Arts and Letters The Monthly contains an Arts and Letters section with independent reviews on books, film, music, theatre, TV, fashion, art and architecture. Regular contributor, Robert Forster won
221-495: The other side of the world. Morry and his family arrived in Melbourne in 1958, the day before Rosh Hashanah . After finishing school at the selective Melbourne High , he studied architecture briefly before deciding he didn't have the patience for six years of theory. He dropped out to travel, spending time in Indonesia and Cambodia, before returning to get into the film business. In 1973, with three friends, Schwartz began
238-405: The same time, comments on the magazine's Facebook page began to be moderated or disabled. The Nation Reviewed A section at the front of the magazine consisting of a national round-up in a handful of articles, each around 1,000 words. This section is an acknowledgment to the former businessman Gordon Barton who founded a weekly newspaper titled Nation Review . Encounters At the back of
255-495: The then-wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch – were around 10,000 words long. Early in 2006, The Monthly published "Information Idol: How Google is making us stupid" by Gideon Haigh , and "The Tall Man: Palm Island's Heart of Darkness" by Chloe Hooper which was extended to the book The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island in 2008. Both pieces shared the 2006 John Curtin Prize for Journalism. Hooper's piece went on to win
272-570: The time normally taken for one. The university awarded him the degrees but then changed the rules so that it couldn't happen again. While still at university Barton started Interstate Parcel Express Company (IPEC), which was the core of his business. In 1966, he used some of his wealth to form the Liberal Reform Group , a splinter group of members of the Liberal Party of Australia disenchanted with their party's support for
289-546: Was an Australian businessman and political activist. Barton was born in Surabaya , Java , Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia ) of a Dutch mother and Australian father. He showed his intelligence and originality early, at the University of Sydney , where he found by careful study of the handbook of course requirements he could select a particular group of subjects that would qualify him for three degrees simultaneously, in
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