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1 I Miss Behaving Badly in Sin City Sydney. I Want to Get a Face Tattoo at 2am Monica Tan , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 3 September 2021;

'I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with Sydney, but deprived of its pleasures in lockdown, I have come to appreciate the city’s immoral reputation' 

1 2 y separately published work icon Stranger Country Monica Tan , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2019 15074304 2019 single work autobiography

'What happens when a 32-year-old first-generation Australian woman decides to chuck in a dream job, pack a sleeping bag and tent, and hit the long, dusty road for six months? Thirty-thousand kilometres later, Monica Tan had the answer. In mid-2016, Monica left Sydney unsure of her place in this country. As a Chinese- Australian city slicker she couldn't feel more distant from powerful Australian mythologies like the Digger, the Drover's Wife and Clancy of the Overflow. More importantly, she wondered how she could ever truly belong to lands that have been the spiritual domain of Indigenous Australians for 60,000-plus years.

'Stranger Country is the blow-by-blow account of the six months Monica drove and camped her way through some of Australia's most beautiful landscapes and shared meals with miners, grey nomads, artists, farmers, community workers and small business owners from across the nation; some Aboriginal, some white, some Asian and even a few who managed to be all three.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Yamandhu Marang? Language Does Not Belong to People, It Belongs to Country Monica Tan , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 1 September 2016;
'It was a language that almost died but the efforts of a community – and one man – have brought Wiradjuri back to life.'
1 After The Babadook : Jennifer Kent's New Film Tackles Australia's Violent Colonial History Monica Tan , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 30 May 2016;
1 Women and Melbourne Writers Dominate Miles Franklin 2016 Shortlist Monica Tan , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 29 May 2016;
'For a second consecutive year four of five authors shortlisted for Australia’s premier literary award are female.'
1 Australia Council Cuts : Theatre Companies Lament ‘Dark Days’ for Arts Monica Tan , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 16 May 2016;
'Artistic directors of major theatre companies pen open letter saying government funding cuts represent an ‘unprecedented assault’ on the arts.'
1 Literary Magazine Meanjin May Close After Losing Australia Council Funding Monica Tan , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 12 May 2016;
'Magazine with 76-year history in jeopardy after funding application to Australia Council rejected, ending council’s continuous support since 1974.'
1 We're Not Living in a Multiracial Television Utopia yet. Here's What Still Has to Change Monica Tan , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 13 May 2016;
'Waleed Aly winning the Gold Logie was a win for racial diversity on television, but the true measure of change is banality, not superstar exceptions.'
1 David Page, Award-Winning Music Director of Bangarra, Dies Aged 55 Monica Tan , 2016 single work obituary (for David Page )
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 29 April 2016;
'Two-time Helpmann award winner had a 25 year career with the acclaimed dance company Bangarra and composed music for television and film.'
1 Nick Earls on the Unlikely Rise of the Novella, Star of the Ebook Revolution Monica Tan , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 2 May 2016;
'... Earls is releasing ... novellas on the first of every month under the umbrella title Wisdom Tree, starting with Gotham released on Monday. Audiobook versions are being simultaneously released on Audible, narrated by Australian actors Rhys Muldoon, Flynn Curry, Gyton Grantley, Michael Dorman and William McInnes. ...'
1 Aboriginal Sci-fi Neomad Wins Australia's Top Comic Book Award Monica Tan , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 19 April 2016;
'For Australian comic artists, winning the Gold Ledger is like winning best picture at the Oscars ...'
1 Indigenous Director Rachael Maza on The Secret River : 'That’s Not the Story I Want to Be Telling My Kids' Monica Tan , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 24 March 2016;
'Maza decries the Australian novel’s stage adaptation for playing on a tired trope of ‘the real Aboriginals died out’'
1 Ken Done : Sell-out, One-hit Wonder, or Australia’s Most Underrated Artist? Monica Tan , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 29 March 2016;
1 Stella Prize 2016 Announces Shortlist of Six Books by Australian Women Monica Tan , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 10 March 2016;
1 Record Night at Oscars for Australia as Mad Max: Fury Road Triumphs Monica Tan , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 27 February 2016;
1 Indigenous Writer Bruce Pascoe : 'We Need Novels That Are True to the Land' Monica Tan , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 18 February 2016;
'The writer of mixed Indigenous heritage says rather than books about white or black people, Australia needs great novelists writing truthfully about the land.'
1 Ernie Dingo and Richard Walley on the 40th Year of Their Welcome to Country Monica Tan , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 23 February 2016;
'The ceremony has a history of thousands of years but the pair say theirs was the first to be performed in the country for non-Indigenous Australians...'
1 Stella Prize 2016 Announces Longlist of 12 Books by Australian Women Monica Tan , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 9 February 2016;
1 The Golden Age Review – Tasmania's Lost Tribe Challenges Notions of Primitivism Monica Tan , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 21 January 2016;

— Review of The Golden Age Louis Nowra , 1980 single work drama
1 Will Australia Embrace Benjamin Law as Television's New Everyman? Monica Tan , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 14 January 2016;
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