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.
The gathering storm
ADELAIDE’S WEST TERRACE Cemetery has its share of famous residents, not all of them human. The sell-out release of...
Princeland
THIS IS A story about a new, breakaway state that was proposed in 1861, taking 18 million acres from...
Trace fossils
This was a landscape of fossils and trace fossils – the preserved impressions left by the passage of a living body through sediment – jostling for attention.
Learning the local language
IT WAS IN a Melbourne museum that I realised I didn’t know the traditional name for the area in...
Outlaw one
‘THE WIND IS my hairdresser,’ says Sue Coleman Haseldine, known locally as Aunty Sue, stepping out into her dusty...
See how they run
A formal committee table surrounded by chairs is seen towards the back of the stage. Lounge chairs and a...
Their body politics
IN LATE SEPTEMBER 2015, Malcolm Turnbull made his first sporting appearance as Prime Minister at the Dally M Awards,...
More than fun
THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY has already seen a stream of premature epitaphs written for many long-standing social phenomena, not least...
Suspended reality
WHY WOULD A country whose greatest export is a bikini wax be awarded the Olympic games? Brazil – where every...
Back to the future
TASMANIA’S NORTH-WEST COAST city of Burnie has long suffered high unemployment. In 2015, however, residents were shocked to find...
Time for spart: sport + art
I LIVE AND work in the poorest electorate in the poorest state in the country, on the north-west coast...
The Aboriginal football ethic
IN HIS HIGHLY influential history of Australian rules football, Geoffrey Blainey promoted the idea that the sport constituted a...
