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.
Marooned in uncertainty
KISH, CHRISTMAS EVE 2015. Thirty or so men and women have gathered in a dimly lit restaurant to celebrate....
Impossible things
IN THE SUMMER of 2016 everything changes. Portentous news should come by phone, or a knock on the door,...
Killing Bold
THE FIRST SAFETY message Brett,[i] one of our tour guides, delivered was about wearing seatbelts. The second was about...
People are kind
THE PACKET OF soy milk was standing alone on the top shelf of the long-life milk section in the...
Waiting our turn
GENERATIONALISM IS A complex phenomenon. The concept of a generation is obvious: the social and economic contexts for a group...
Your sons, your daughters
WEARY WORKING WARRIORS of Australia, we need to talk about what your heroic long hours, your selfless overtime, and...
A consensus for care
I USED PENCIL to write the due date for my baby in my diary. It was one of those...
Who owns the future?
THE FUTURE IS always arriving, in one form or another. There is no no future. It’s an absurdly simple...
A gonzo music memoir
SO YOU GET an urge. Something bristling within you that can only get out through something else. Maybe it...
Unpaid opportunities
I HAVE THIS social dread when meeting new people. A nervousness that keeps me on edge during the early...
Economic illiterates
THE YEAR I was born, Paul Keating dropped Australia’s corporate tax rate by ten percentage points. As I started...
The sickness of social organisation
TAKE A LOOK in your medicine cabinet; these days, it’s where wellness lives. No longer satisfied with treating illness...
