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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.

From this time forward I pledge

14 OCTOBER 2007: This date will remain significant for us both. We now share a flag, national anthem and...

By Caroline Lenette

For us all

DAWN AT BONDI reveals a snapshot of today’s Australia: nightclubbed couples prone on the sand, Chinese tripod photographers framing...

By Alison Broinowski

A necessary marriage

EARLY IN 1959, the British novelist and physicist CP Snow delivered his famous Rede Lecture The Two Cultures at...

By Ann Moyal (dec.)

Not beyond imagining

IT'S FIVE-ISH ON a dark November evening in Maynooth, the thriving university town on the edge of Dublin where...

By Brendan Gleeson

Beyond the ‘smell of an oily rag’

THERE IS A need for a significant paradigm shift in how we support and grow the cultural sector. If...

By Cathy Hunt

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There is an odd disjunction in Australian public life at the moment – we know we are doing better...

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