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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.

A story in clothes

'Her pale draperies, and the background of foliage against which she stood, served only to relieve the long dryad-like...

All that glitters

NESTLED IN THE south-east corner of Queensland, not quite Brisbane and not quite a frenzied metropolis unto itself, lies...

Digital dreaming

EIGHT YEARS AGO I was working with Annie Nayina Milgin, a senior Nyikina Mangala cultural custodian in the Kimberley,...

Selling the dream

AS THE FATHER of an inexhaustible four-year-old girl, I am frequently cast in the grueling dual role of wicked...

Eat and be eaten

RED STOOD AT the corner of King Street, where one of the lanes broke off it, one-way and hazardously...

Crime scenes

RANGIORA IS A small (population around twelve thousand) country town twenty-five kilometres north of Christchurch. It has an interesting...

The bottom of the pit

I ASSESSED OFATO in the visitor section of Silverwater jail in Sydney's western suburbs. Anxious, expectant relatives were directed,...

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