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.
Why don’t we know where we’re going?
AFTER SPENDING MORE than fifty years of my life in Tasmania, in 2009 I belatedly joined the brain-drain exodus...
Putting the science in the shed
THE INSTITUTE FOR Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), which has brought together scientific leaders from a variety of fields...
Open for business?
TASMANIA'S COMPLEX PLANNING system is often categorised as one of the main hurdles for anyone wanting to do business...
State of transformation
PROFESSOR JONATHAN WEST has a powerful intellect and an unquestionable passion for Tasmania. His work has driven and inspired...
A bleak set of numbers
WHEN WARLPIRI WOMAN Bess Nungurrayi Price speaks about Aboriginal affairs she does so with a special authority rooted in...
I don’t remember
THIS IS A singular history of drinking – within one Costello family of Irish, French, Spanish and/or Italian ancestry,...
Moments alone
'I'M SORRY I didn't get to that movie you recommended,' said the woman I'd recently met, in an email....
A principal’s view
MY OFFICE IS an eclectic mix of cast-off furniture, books, ancient gaslights and modern technology. As parents enter, often...
Batagine
YARRIE GREW UP in a refugee camp in Guinea. She started university this year. Aminata was kidnapped by rebels...
League of their own
'It is now more dangerous to be a woman than a soldier in modern conflicts.'– Major General Patrick Cammaert,...
The unwritten rules
Patriarchal power and control occurs silently, without fanfare, through institutions and their structure, including legal institutions and the family. It is in this conceptualisation that the recent public discussion in Australia of misogyny and the 'gender card' became distracted, focussing on a personal hatred of individual women as key rather than the daily reproduction of significant structural inequality.
The fig tree
THREE YEARS AGO, if you'd told me I'd be a mother one day, I probably would have laughed in...
