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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.

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

The inflating porcupine of travel

IMAGINE A WORLD where air travel was several times more expensive than now. Would the tyranny of distance return?...

By Ralf Buckley

Eat the problem

THIS YEAR AT MONA (Museum of Old and New Art Market) we are solving all problems by eating them....

By Kirsha Kaechele

Firestorm at Bicheno

EVEN BEFORE THE fires, the hectic summer season had its first tragic trial. In early December, my husband Nick...

By Arabella Edge

The island of broken dreams

TASMANIA IS VIEWED by many Australians who don't live on the island as some kind of paradise. The traffic...

By Greg Barnes

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