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 greatest shows on Earth
AMONG THE MEMENTOS (boardgames, guidebooks, banners, souvenir plates) on display at the permanent World’s Fair exhibition at the Queens...
Revisiting Andrew Inglis Clark
IN 2013 GRIFFITH Review published an issue focused on Tasmania, which I co-edited with founding editor Julianne Schultz. We sensed...
Above the line
THE INTERNATIONAL FOCUS on eliminating extreme poverty globally has grown since the late twentieth century, even among those who...
An inclusive blueprint for mental health
In the shape of things to come Too much poison come undone ’Cause there’s nothing else to do Every me and every...
Surviving Covid
MASHED_BEAUTATO HERE with another strategic guide on how to most efficiently ace the hottest new game on the market....
Psychiatry and the socio-political order
AT A COMMUNITY consultation forum on mental health in regional Queensland in 2013, the discussion turned to the human...
Unease and disease
OVER THE COURSE of eight years I researched and wrote a book, Bedlam at Botany Bay, about colonial madness...
Decolonising psychology
IN NOVEMBER 2020, the long-awaited Productivity Commission Inquiry Report into Mental Health in Australia was released publicly. Among its...
The sad stats
IN 2018 I was hired to work as Victoria’s first dedicated LGBTIQ outreach lawyer, to be based at a...
Our once and future home
IT’S A HOT Australian twilight, some years ago now, and I’m among a couple of hundred people who have...
Delusions of sanity
ACCORDING TO THE Parable of the Poisoned Well, there once lived a king who ruled over a great city....
Going sane
ON THE DAY of The Correspondent’s launch in September 2019, a reader who identified as manic-psychotic sent me an...
