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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.

Alternative selves

My parents are hardwired to see potential everywhere, a trait that I inherited and which fuelled my compulsion to travel in adulthood. I am uncomfortable with the idea of living permanently in one place, and concerned about the fate of my personal and cultural identity when I consider other places to call home.

By Balli Kaur Jaswal

Suburban dreaming

I COMMEMORATED MY first day in Australia by taking an oversized bite of a Whopper Junior. Its salty blandness...

By Neha Kale

Looking for Magda

IN 2017, MORE than one hundred books were published telling the stories of Australians from non-English speaking backgrounds. They...

By Klaus Neumann

The courage to reform

LAST YEAR MARKED the fiftieth anniversary of the 1967 constitutional referendum. I was only four years old when the...

By Mark Moran

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