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.
A badly researched history of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition
The Australasian Antarctic Expedition, headed by Douglas Mawson, explored the Antarctic coast between 1911 and 1914. After losing a sled...
Expedition to Blood Falls, Victoria Land
I used to catch fish in jam jars and hide in hedges. I slept in trees like a lemur and dreamt of...
Old gods
Our old gods they are called false they are cut from the land like a mountain nothing holds firm the...
They cannot say their thoughts
(or, If Cohen sang Oodgeroo)
Dance me to the rhythm of a language (I don’t speak) ’Neath sapphire-misted mountains they might kill (ya) Breathe out brokin...
the sweet lie
my ancestors peer towards dry land from the deck of a ship; or are they like swine, packed into the...
Kangaroo Island 1819
The fucker’s hanging in the air. The rope’s as black against the light as his black skin, though his skin...
Q/A
U like America? No U like China? No U like Australia? Sort of U like what about Australia? A small country pretending to be bitter than it is,...
Dawning
While her mother lies pinned to her bed under the startling weight of a cut to the abdomen more than...
Muhammad Ali and beauty
The discipline of Nijinsky’s dance the precision of Bach’s improv the reach of Woolf’s spacetime the audacity of Brontë’s narrative the originator of...
Glitter & gold
Listen to Sachém Parkin-Owens read his poem ‘Glitter & gold’ accompanied by world-renowned beatboxer Tom Thumb. We need action Not condolences Far too long we marched,...
what did you want to be when you grew up?
dad, did you ever want to live in a treehouse with a monkey butler? wear a helmet made of...
Footpath rage during lockdown #6
The bicycles have me huddling Mum into the garden to avoid their maskless legitimacy. Keep the rules the man...
