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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.

Fear of the Q-word

CONVERSATIONS ABOUT QUOTAS to increase the number of senior women in business seem unreal. It is as if instead...

Mothers know best

KOWANYAMA'S FIRST CANTEEN opened in 1973. It was little more than a window, with a noisy throng of men...

Do not bend

THEY ARRIVED BY mail the other day in an A4 envelope from the National Archives of Australia bearing a...

Raggedy men

WAR IS BIG business and I am at a conference about the business of war. It's being held on...

Life study

I USED TO be in love with Tracey Emin. She was bold, self-made and bolshie, and she didn't care...

Revenge of the geeks

THE TOMORROW PEOPLE now seems very "yesterday". It is fondly remembered as a poor man's Doctor Who – and as Doctor Who was notoriously...

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