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Keeping it together
HAVE YOU EVER thought about what it would be like to have a loved one in prison? Would you...
The how matters
This story contains descriptions of violence. ON SATURDAY 15 March 2014, my stepmother Genee was shot twice in her bed...
Visiting day
ONCE A MONTH, Mrs Murphy took him on a trip to the other side of town. For these journeys...
Pablo Escobar’s hippopotamus
He had four hippos in his private zoo and would visit them each dawn in his silk kimono to explain survival...
From little things
DEBBIE KILROY WAS sitting quietly at home in Brisbane on the afternoon of 6 January 2019, scrolling through social...
Mountain ashed
I’M STANDING IN the shifting forest in the muted light of dusk. Above me, a tall tree with a...
Prepping
YOUR LAWYER – A woman, for Chrissakes, young and Australian – is making you do some last-minute prep-prep-prepping. That’s really what...

The trauma of discipline
THE TILES IN the kitchen were white, with a grey diamond pattern. The grout was a light greying brown –...
Love virtually
The shift we’ve made to finding lovers online is nothing short of profound, and it’s a trend observable across every age group in Australia. Even the oldies appear to have taken to it with zeal. As the digitisation of our lives proceeds unabated, the use of digital platforms as a legitimate way to find a prospective mate has embedded itself in our culture.
Risks and rewards
Griffith Review 64: The New Disruptors takes a wide-ranging look at the technological upheavals and innovations that define the...
Me, we and them
The roots of the digital change movement lie in ideas about audience persuasion that date back to Aristotle: that a combination of pathos, ethos and logos – the mixture of a credible hero, an emotive, empathetic story and a logical argument – is what’s needed to convince an audience to take action.
I, cyborg
Cyborg is a scary word. It is associated with science fiction, but despite the condescension with which some mainstream authors view the genre, it provides a useful way to explore the unintended consequences of how our paths into the future interact with human character and frailties