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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.

Vanellinae

And I know now, about the birds – their Latin name, theirpopulation and international distribution. I know their migratory patterns...

By Josephine Rowe

Hospice

You never tire of the sky,caught within the frame and sash,spun sugar, your tongue can almost tastebefore it melts...

By Laura Jan Shore

An abstract art

IM Emily Kame Kngwarreye Outrageous, the flag of beautyas day revolves to night, a skythick with stars that fall like...

By WH Chong

Islands

i dream of islands, glass-bottom boats, waters clearand safe as houses before they're bombedfish scales, slippery as yesterday's newsi...

By Kathleen Bleakley

Sighting Rottnest

Rottnest Island (Wadjemup) – 32°S 115°31'E – 18 km off shore – Western Australia AUTUMN rough serious blue seapale sky, pale...

By Margaret Merrilees

Auntie May, 1953

Twenty years ago last Augustthey had me running down the platform,howling in that flannel dress,those two from the ‘Protection'...

By Geoff Page

Suddenly

Suddenly the place is overrun with Europeans.Suddenly there is a Maori in your backyard.Suddenly you need to shit but...

By Lloyd Jones

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