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Playing in the dark archive
Interviewer: Describe your aesthetic in five words.Jasmine Togo-Brisby: Can. You. See. Us. Now? IN JUNE 2021, in the wake of...
Griffith’s Welsh odyssey
I am going away to England on Friday… I may go away with a tranquil mind and I am...
Everywhen
‘Time, what is time?’Title of the lead track on Somewhere Far Beyond by Germanpower-metal band Blind Guardian THERE ARE AS...
On the Queensland frontier
THE 1850S BROUGHT dramatic changes to the Australian colonies – the gold rushes, the end of convict transportation in the...
But we already had a treaty!
IN JULY 2019, the Queensland Government launched a series of community consultations as part of its Path to Treaty...
The God of the ‘God powers’
[The Prime Minister’s staff discuss plans for Australia Day]Nick (senior political adviser): Who did Australian history? Murph?Murph (director central...
An archive for the dispossessed
As an archive, the Jaffna Public Library told a story about the place of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka. The political authorities of the 1980s wanted to suppress that narrative – and burning the archive was a quick and conclusive way to do it.
Blood and bone
Listen to contributor Alice Bellette read ‘Blood and bone’. Seek company of others who refuse to accept cultural amnesia, who refuse to once...
Disrupting the colonial narrative
The many Indigenous nations of the globe have always been storytellers, and our stories tell of an animate reality...
Zamby, zombi, zombie
ANGRY MEN GATHERED in the dark of night at Bois Caïman, the Alligator Woods, under the shadow of the...
Beating the bounds
‘LIKE THE BROLGA Dancers at the Mullet Run,’ Murree grinned, squatting easily against the base of a gum tree...
Mud reckoning
THERE IS NO such thing as bad Country; there just happens to be bad custodians.
