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.
Taking credit
IN 2012 I was approached by Egon Zehnder, the world’s most successful privately owned executive-search firm, to write a...
Belsen
All images © Nadia Wheatley I VIVIDLY REMEMBER my reaction when I discovered that my father had worked at Belsen. This...
Staking a claim for peace
The stillness of the morning was broken by a terrific roar as thousands of guns spoke with a single...
On ‘Fox’, by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks
FOX WAS A contemporary classic the minute it was published – an extraordinary picture book that has been acclaimed throughout...
Becoming Kalgoorlie
ON OUR FIRST day in Kalgoorlie, a local woman in her mid-thirties tells us that ‘Kal wouldn’t exist if...
Bali
IN 2013 A total of 429,000 Western Australians visited Bali, with more than a thousand arriving every day. Most...
Power to grow
THE PILBARA, THE mighty, resource rich, economic powerhouse in Australia’s far north-west, is breathtakingly vast and ecologically unique. It...
The spirit of place
IN CONTRAST TO Western Australia’s wondrous Indian Ocean sunsets, there have been many false dawns in the quest for...
Grow up with your country
THE SIREN CALL ‘Go West, young man’ has a long history in Australia, Canada and the United States. In...
Just locks of hair
Response on reading ‘Former glory’, the novella by Cate Kennedy published in Griffith Review 46: Forgotten Stories – The...
Swamp
Under this site was a swampThe waters remainonly run deeper still– Plaque at Perth railway station A SMALL BOY is...
On ‘Carpentaria’, by Alexis Wright
Wright’s reflections on her own creative process show that in working on Carpentaria, she was keenly aware of the need to invent a way of writing that could embody both the negative effects of colonialism and her proud Aboriginal heritage.
