Policy Archives

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.

Learning to see

In my experience, the efficiency of an intelligence service depends ... on the willingness of those who receive its...

By Paul Monk

Who guards the guardians?

TODAY I WANT to talk about a difficult problem – one that all politicians seek to avoid, since it...

By Peter Beattie

The new slavery, body as data

WE ARE TURNING our bodies into data. Since information can confer both power and wealth, we are at risk...

By Paul Chadwick

Wise to the healthy, wealthy divide

MOSES, A SCIENTIST from West Africa, is visiting a research laboratory in Brisbane. He has come to gather ideas...

By Michael F Good

Curing sick hospitals

ONE THING I have learned is that the so-called "health debate" is between insiders – doctors and ministers. Usually...

By John Menadue

Fat is a fairness issue

INEQUITY IS THE invisible partner undermining the quest for the perfect body, or even a healthy population. As individuals...

By Stephanie Short

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