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.
A voté
I voted Benoit Hamon. What can I say? I have always voted for the Parti Socialiste candidates at presidential...
American dreams
THREE YEARS AGO I was privileged to intern for a Democratic congressman in the United States House of Representatives....
Frontier dreaming
QUEENSLANDERS MAY BE united when it comes to State of Origin football, but up north there has always been...
Sanctuary in the city
EARLY IN THE evening of the 2016 presidential election, the streets of New York City sprang into messy, loud...
An algorithm for altruism
IN 2013, FORMER US President Barack Obama identified inequality as the defining challenge of our time, and claimed it...
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...
