{"product_id":"the-monthly-december-issue-2025-copy","title":"The Monthly February issue 2026","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eNew year, new \u003ci\u003eMonthly\u003c\/i\u003e, and the February issue is full of thoughtful, entertaining and considered takes on where the nation is at in 2026. Three years ago this month, Treasurer Jim Chalmers wrote our cover essay, offering a balance between the big-picture philosophy that he brought to the role and the granular detail of the day-to-day challenges of government. Now, at the beginning of the second year of the Albanese government’s second term, the treasurer is back in our pages, this time in conversation with Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. The pair talk through the prevailing economic conditions – from tariffs to housing, tax reform and regulation – to unpick the task ahead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeyond the economy, across the magazine we have a surplus of great offerings: Nick Feik explores the rolling infrastructure disaster around replacing and updating the Spirit of Tasmania fleet; Anthony Ham considers the effects of the North West Shelf gas project on millennia-old rock art on the Burrup Peninsula; Hannah Bambra looks into the ethics and practicalities of fertility support, with record demand for donor eggs and widespread supply challenges; Elizabeth Finkel sees hope in international efforts to prepare us for the next pandemic; and Karen Middleton travels down the long path to hate speech legislation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlus Lorin Clarke on the teen social-media ban, Quentin Sprague on Hany Armanious, Beejay Silcox on reading Halldór Laxness, and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schwartz Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44784703242274,"sku":"TMFEB26","price":14.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0265\/0777\/1988\/files\/TM_FEB_26.jpg?v=1770600697","url":"https:\/\/schwartz-media.myshopify.com\/products\/the-monthly-december-issue-2025-copy","provider":"Schwartz Media","version":"1.0","type":"link"}