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Listening to the Elders
With Acknowledgements of Country and Welcomes to Country becoming a more frequent element of institutional practice in Australia, where...
System failure
WHEN I TURNED sixty last year, I entered a year’s worth of birthday celebrations with friends to mark the milestone....
A vapour trail across the sun
I AM AN amazingly fortunate woman. I am an author, well into my seventies, published for the first time. My memoir,...
The almost homeless
MARG’S NORTH BRISBANE townhouse looks innocuous from the outside. But when she ushers me inside, the chaos of her...
Experiments in the art of living
A FEW YEARS ago, a pretty young woman approached me in the lunchroom of the building where I began...
Bionic enhancements queue
Bionic enhancements queue Every time I go through airport security now the queue is longer. I stow everything I can decently...
Andrew
Their house has the taste of salt Pictures framed for satire Balsamic vinegar ripening Offset with olive oil They know themselves What they love What...
Bold rage
Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against...
Moving in quarantine
This year, the crisis that began for this land over two centuries ago has clawed its way to the surface of the national psyche. The consequences of invasion, dispossession, resource exploitation and the interruption of care for country continue to devastate Indigenous peoples...
The long road home
Two days before our flight, Dubai – our leapfrog to Sydney – closed its border. At midnight, we had new tickets routed through San Francisco…At Heathrow we ate egg sandwiches on the airport floor…and checked our email. Our permission to travel through the United States was revoked.
The Backstory #2: Trust and press freedom
Join Nance Haxton for the latest instalment of Griffith Review's The Backstory podcast as she investigates 'Matters of Trust' through the prism...
Mistrusting the news
Some of what we call ‘fake news’ today is what we used to call propaganda. When the US-born Briton and fascist politician William Joyce, known as Lord Haw-Haw, broadcast radio programs during World War II designed to mislead and demoralise the Allied opponents of Nazi Germany, he would present a mix of fake and factual information.
