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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.

The future

For a moment he was given his future: a prophetic pulse racing to the horizon of his life and washing it...

By Damen O’Brien

2029 Headlines

New Victorian State Bird Symbol Announced Venice Hotel Owners Sell Up National Cancer Detection Implant Program Rolls Out The Anti-Robot Movement Gains...

By Amanda Anastasi

Opposite day

Today is opposite day yesterday was Thursday, an ordinary day but today – is different the poor are rich the rich fight over...

By Tess Ridgway

Intensifier

It’s strange that a dog barking at the beach becomes a cause for concern. Those nearby look around for...

By David Stavanger

The bee box

You made this; working with wood and mortar to build nesting sites for native bees –  the leafcutter, the resin, the blue-banded. For some...

By Adam Smith

Le Méridien

8 a.m. poolside, two women rolling cigarettes like a production line. This hotel full of Russians with grapefruit-hard stomachs and bar tabs the...

By Mindy Gill

Coal and meter

The poet digs down a decade with her plastic pen, rests by  the ancient seam, Earth’s little little black dress boudoir-veined.  Poet and...

By A Frances Johnson

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