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.
Beware the people-focused omnibus
ORGANISING GOVERNMENT CAN be as important as policy. In his 2017 Wentworth Lecture to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal...
My grandfather’s equality
WHAT WOULD MY grandfather make of our world today? I have wondered about that lately. What would he make...
Ancestors’ words
NO ONE WAS surprised when, in 1977, the Western Australian Government put a blanket ban on its recently decommissioned...
Lost opportunities
GRIFFITH REVIEW IS not, according to its ‘Writers’ Guidelines’, an ‘academic journal’. This leads me to pause and consider...
Decolonising the north
THE TURNBULL GOVERNMENT’S initial response to the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern...
Hope and conflict at the MCG
THE ADULTS STARE hard, looks of panic rip through the crowd. A curiously dressed man in clinical white clothing...
A century of activism and heartache
Where Aboriginal people are concerned, the twin strands of dysfunction and idealisation weave a highly coloured thread through the fabric...
The imperial mind
IT IS A common vanity among humans that our ascent is an exponential trajectory applauded by gods. Our religions encourage...
Owning the science
SCIENCE AND RESEARCH has an important role to play in the fundamental debate Australians are now having about the...
The voice of Indigenous data
THE ULURU STATEMENT from the Heart is essentially the same missive as sent by Tasmanians Walter and Mary Anne...
Imagining abolition
Proportionally, we are the most incarcerated people on the planet. We are not an innately criminal people. Our children...
A question of value
IN AUGUST 2016, I stood on the sacred ceremonial grounds of the Yolngu, the people of north-east Arnhem Land,...
