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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 good sport

IT'S ONE OF the most powerful images of the twentieth century: the Black Power salute at the 1968 Mexico...

By Jorge Sotirios

The good war

'Little Fuzzy-Wuzzies,Angels in Disguise.The Christ-child's coloured messengers,Same as you or I.Colour doesn't matterIn the Saviour's Home.It's what you say...

By

Digging for yams

EMILY IS TEACHING me. I am learning about Yams, and so much more. My teacher, Emily Kam Ngwarray, died...

By Lois Calvert

Finding a voice

'The meek don't inherit the earth,' – Senator Tony Mulvihill, 7 July 1994ON 10 JUNE 1994, a 65-year-old Chinese...

By Helen Fong

Tarcutta wake

THESE DAYS I only ever see her at funerals. Which is more often than one might reasonably expect, our...

By Josephine Rowe

A fork in the road

TRAVELLING ACROSS MOST of Western Europe, up into Scandinavia, around the countries encircling the Mediterranean, down through the Americas...

By Deb Newell

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