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A story of the digital generation
'YOU ARE LISTENING to sin,' said the radio announcer. That was a few years ago now and I remember...
How cyber-activism changed the world
I can't thank you enough for providing the tools I've always wanted for social change. With MoveOn, I feel...
Tribes of Berlin
THE EARLY DAYS in a new city always feel similar to snorkeling, or taking hallucinogenics, or lucid dreaming –...
Welsh rarebit
The past in maiming us, makes us. – Frank Bidart[i] ON MOST DAYS when I was very little I would...
Seeds of hope
WHEN I FIRST started going in and out of Jordan three years ago, my well-honed multicultural sensibility was shocked...
When elections need protection
THE CALL CAME at the very end of my four-hour shift on election day 2008: ‘Ma'am, I'm calling from...
Assemble at home
ONE AFTERNOON IN late July 2003 I turned up at a café in Brunswick Street Fitzroy to have coffee...
Working on big issues
FOR A COUPLE of years in the mid-1990s, I worked out of an office overlooking Times Square. Sounds of...
Listening not talking
GOVERNMENTS OFTEN CONSULT. They set up inquiries about new laws and policies on everything from taxation to climate change...
From an unconscious state
SOMETHING IS MISSING from the debates about teaching history in Australian schools, even though their explosive, raw and at...
Must film be fiction?
‘PRIMARILY, WE HISTORIANS write books – and academic articles,' Yale historian Dr Jay Gitlin said in a history documentary...
From me to we
IMAGINE THE GREAT Hall at the University of Sydney, packed row after row with teenagers, being asked to write...
