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.
Remaking nature
IN LATE 2014, Greg Roberts, a semi-retired journalist, was birdwatching along River Road in his local patch of Yandina...
Good fences
RUBBERNECKING. THERE’S NO denying that was my intention as I huddled with the growing crowd behind the blue-and-white checkered tape,...
Debt in paradise
ANNIE TRIED TO leave. She had no cash, just a car full of possessions. She’d worked full-time for four...
A bird flew from the mournful left
IF, LIKE ME, you have very few better things to do with your time, you may have noticed the...
Islam in the outback
ON A DUSTY corner just before the Oodnadatta Track begins to unfurl across the centre of Australia, there is an...
Enduring traditions of Aboriginal protest
NOBODY SEEMED QUITE capable of distinguishing John Noble from Jimmy Clements when the pair turned up for the royal...
Trick or treaty
AS JACQUI WANDIN gazes out over the rolling paddocks and scribbles of bushland, she can visualise the scene a...
Centre of controversy
ALICE SPRINGS TOWN centre is surrounded by three prominent hills, each of them sacred to Central Arrernte people, the...
House of Rainbow
TO GET TO House of Rainbow you turn off the Apata Road from Ibadan at the Moco petrol station...
Truth still denied
SOMETIME IN 1990, I was driving with Mary Maguire, a long-time British resident of Malaysia, in her bright-yellow VW...
Just the nickel, please
The plumes of our bird have a history that holds a mirror to this country and reflects onto it...
The unequal battle
WHEN I WAS eight years old I visited South Africa, my dad’s homeland, for the first time. I’ll never...
