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.
How feminism lost its street cred
'I'M NOT A feminist" is the first line of many a contemporary discussion of gender. The disclaimer isn't even...
Everyday violence
A FRIEND OF mine who suffered from schizophrenia once told me of her intention to write a travel guide...
Confusions of an economist’s daughter
Dad wore his "It's time" badge with its rusted pin to our small country school to vote. He wore it to irritate the National Party voters and Christian fundamentalists whose community was ours. But it was important not to be selfish, our parents said, so we were a Labor-voting family. We were lucky because life was comfortable, but others were not so lucky and deserved a break.
Once a professional token youth
IT'S OFFICIAL. AS of August 2006, my last youth-related engagement ends. For nearly a decade, I have worked on...
The age of horrorism
IT WAS MID-OCTOBER 2001, and night was closing in on the border city of Peshawar, in Pakistan, as my...
Time, gentlemen, please
MUCH OF THE geology I once learned is long forgotten, but what remains, indelibly, is an awareness of time,...
It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it
THERE HAS BEEN a great deal of environmental change in the Australian region over the 50,000 years that people...
Corals under siege
THERE'S NOT MUCH of a laugh to be had on the topic of global warming but American futurist Bruce...
Seven-tenths: random notes from the deep
One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, ‘What if I had never seen this before?What if...
Changing public attitudes to long-term issues
IF INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY is to survive, the next century will have to be a time of transformation, not just...
Beyond greed
IS THIS WHOLE global warming scenario real or, as some newspaper columnists like to suggest, a massive conspiracy by...
Riding Australia’s big dipper
AUSTRALIA'S HISTORY DURING the past 150 years has often revolved around fossil fuels. They have affected not only daily...
