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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.

Adapting for hope

THERE IS A single large tree on the wind-whipped salt-lake flats, the most marginal of marginal land. There are...

By Doug Hendrie

Ground cover

THAT WAS THE day the garbage didn't get picked up, and the day the house across the road burned...

By Alan Vaarwerk

Tragic intimacy

BY ANYONE'S RECKONING, World War I was an unprecedented, unmitigated disaster. Of course, it matters greatly who won or...

By Damon Young

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...

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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

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