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.
Kale as old as time
CRATES OF SUPER-RIPE tomatoes are stacked high, softening in the sunshine. The red fruits are passed through timeworn contraptions,...
Kale as old as time
CRATES OF SUPER-RIPE tomatoes are stacked high, softening in the sunshine. The red fruits are passed through timeworn contraptions,...
A future more fair
FOR AUSTRALIANS WITH disability, and their families and friends, it feels as though opportunity has never come knocking quite...
Modern science, modern life
LIKE MANY CHILDREN born in the 1980s, I grew up playing outside, catching lizards and feeding tadpoles. My parents...
Breaking the cycle
ONE OF OUR family treasures, kept on my parents’ mantelpiece, is a photo of me as a baby being...
Born on Aboriginal land
I was born a white woman on Aboriginal land. Blood drenched land, white washed in omission. The land still stains my feet. I...
A luxury of choice
I’M TWENTY-SIX YEARS old, and recently stopped taking the birth-control pill. I react poorly to synthetic hormones – they...
Un-Australian
THURSDAY, 26 JANUARY 2017 is a grey, overcast day in Sydney. Along the harbour front thousands of people gather,...
The housing black hole
I WAS THIRTEEN when I learnt a home’s real value. The vice-principal called me into his office. He was the...
Maybe travel isn’t always moving on
IN SEPTEMBER 2016, I took a trip to Japan that was originally meant for me and my boyfriend. It...
Navigating life in art
THERE WAS A cynicism creeping up on me: the idea that all we did in the arts world, or...
On ‘Vampyre’, by Margaret Wild and Andrew Yeo
PUBLISHED IN 2011, Margaret Wild’s picture book Vampyre is a hallucinatory marriage of minimal text and symbolic imagery, rendered...
