The Monthly 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 Wendi Deng Murdoch, Eric Ellis's profile of 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,
Wendy Tuck one little girl sees this, sees it can be done and has a go, that will be what matters to me.” Tuck has spoken about how she has been inspired by other yachtswomen such as Ellen MacArthur and Kay Cottee. She will be a guest skipper on "Maiden"'s global voyage in 2018 in support of The Maiden Factor Foundation. Wendy Tuck Wendy Tuck (born c.1965) is a yachtswoman and previous chief instructor and principal at the Clipper Race training base in Sydney, Australia. Tuck is best known as the first female skipper to win a round-the-world yacht race. Tuck was