Journal
Articles
Hummingbirds in the forest of needle and blood
Say there is a boy in a village. Say the boy is not always a boy, but today he...
Aftermath
IN THE AFTERMATH of 2020 – a year that outstripped description, so broad and deeply felt were its tragedies and...
Scaling change
Listen to Amanda Tattersall read ‘Scaling change’ I’M OLD ENOUGH to remember when Australia’s Wonderland opened in 1985 in Sydney’s western suburbs....
Dystopian photo album
Buried in slough of immaculate lust We wave off the iron-man model Coughing up money and fake lottery tix Ipso facto zippers...
My Covid dreaming
HE WORE OFF-WHITE trainers with built-up soles. The caved-in line of his jaw told me he had no teeth...
New world dreams
EREWHON. SOUNDS WELSH – the soft ‘h’. That’s what I thought when I first saw the word on the...
Creation stories
Listen to Editor Ashley Hay in conversation with Sarah Sentilles for Byron Writers Festival. The word utopia makes me nervous, an uneasiness cultivated by too...
Erasure
It was thanks to a series of deliberate decisions made during the nineteenth century that women’s critical labours were designated ‘unproductive’ and simply wiped from view. Key to these erasures was Alfred Marshall, the revered father of neoclassical economics, who advocated strict limits on women’s choices lest they behave selfishly.
Blue wedge
A STRANGE DISQUIET stalks the Australian arts and cultural community. It’s not just the very real effects of COVID-19 –...
Orphaned responsibility
UTOPIAN IDEALS ARE ordinarily more ambitious, and romantic, than the desire to see a constitutional system functioning as it...
Restoring wholeness
AS A POLITICAL (and social) theorist, my thinking has always been anchored in a passionate attachment to the Australian...
Grounded imaginaries
THIS WE KNOW: we live within systems, institutions and structures – economic, social, political, cultural and discursive – that are generating...
