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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...
Power to the people
Here in Australia, thousands of birdwatchers are collecting and entering data about birds into apps such as Birdata or eBird via smartphones.
The greatest shows on Earth
AMONG THE MEMENTOS (boardgames, guidebooks, banners, souvenir plates) on display at the permanent World’s Fair exhibition at the Queens...
Revisiting Andrew Inglis Clark
IN 2013 GRIFFITH Review published an issue focused on Tasmania, which I co-edited with founding editor Julianne Schultz. We sensed...
Above the line
THE INTERNATIONAL FOCUS on eliminating extreme poverty globally has grown since the late twentieth century, even among those who...
Opposite day
Today is opposite day yesterday was Thursday, an ordinary day but today – is different the poor are rich the rich fight over...
New vibrations
Click here to listen to Editor Ashley Hay read her introduction ‘New vibrations’. IN THE FIRST months of 2020, the vibrations of the Earth...
