Welcome to GR Online, a series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.
Where are you from?
AT A PARTY last year, towards the tail end of summer when leases go up for renewal and people move...
Who do they think we are?
Each Australian has both sexes, and if a child happens to be born with only one, they kill it...
Discrimination and the body
THE WORDS ‘WELCOME’ and ‘opportunity’ are used throughout the Department of Home Affairs’ migration webpages. There is the occasional...
Re-imagining Parramatta
THERE ARE JACKHAMMERS everywhere. A new Parramatta is emerging out of the rubble, seeking to make real its tag line:...
History never repeats?
RECENTLY, I WATCHED worried policemen and politicians denounce the crimes of Sudanese Australians. If you only caught the headlines, you...
Not another diversity panel
WHAT I WANT is for three people to speak to you. Merlinda Bobis, Julie Koh and Mammad Aidani. You may...
Sentenced to discrimination
ON AUSTRALIA DAY in 2016, artist Elizabeth Close was at an Adelaide shopping centre speaking to her young daughter...
The long road to Uluru
Uluru is a game changer. The response of ordinary Australians to the Statement has been overwhelming…a rallying call to the Australian people to “walk with us in a movement…for a better future".
Changing the channel
LAST NIGHT, FOLLOWING the tenth anniversary of the national Apology to Australia’s Indigenous peoples, a former host of online...
A new sovereign republic
Sovereignty: (1) the quality or state of having supreme power or authority; (2) the authority of a state to...
No republic without a soul
ABORIGINAL PEOPLES AND Torres Strait Islanders have just marked two hundred and thirty years of patience with displaced Europeans....
A rightful path
IN 1985, I started a bachelor’s degree the month I turned seventeen. Despite a change of degree from social...
