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.
Homeopathy
TRUTH IS AS truth believes. When the piano needed tuning and the blind piano tuner came to the house,...
In my father’s house
THERE WAS NO sign on the door of my parents' bedroom that said 'keep out', but I knew it...
Broken
Selected for The Best Australian Essays 2013 FOR NEARLY A decade, my art has been concerned with aspects of female...
Mac attack
BACK IN THE very early '90s, McDonald's is still number one. Before Nandos and Subway and juice bars, and...
Just passing through
I MET A hippy on the road to Port Vila. His pale dreadlocks set him apart from the other...
Lopping tall poppies
I WANT TO play God Only Knows at my wedding. A weird confession perhaps, but when you write books with swear...
Developing a Rimbaud complex
No one is serious at seventeen.– Arthur Rimbaud LIKE MANY CHILDREN born in the 1980s, I grew up mostly with...
The last time I saw Grant
I WAS SCROUNGING for records in a little store in Brisbane's West End the last time I saw Grant....
Halfway through the days of our lives
A FEW WEEKS ago, I almost killed my baby. I was driving out of Brisbane's CBD, on a steep...
Mending a broken link
I'M CELEBRATING MY mother. Pink tissue paper and ribbon fold and tie over the gift: foot lotion. Lavender scented....
The hanging garden
NOT SO LONG ago, I lived in paradise. A luxury apartment on the Gold Coast. I still remember waking...
Women and children first
ROSALINA XIMENES' EYES were downcast as I leaned forward to kiss her lightly on both cheeks. I caught the...
