Articles Archive

Offshore

The gathering with placards is, give or take, the normal size. The speech is not unlike the last but tweaked for the...

By Geoff Page

Early adopter

ONE TWO THREE running, jumping hops and I launch into the sky, wings beating down hard, plastic feathers scraping...

By Andrew Roff

First life, second death

IN 2011, AS a researcher interested in death and mourning, I decided to explore the now ‘mature’ virtual social...

By Margaret Gibson

Dealer’s chance

‘IT HAS THE capacity to change everything – the way we work, the way we learn and play, even, maybe,...

By Eileen Ormsby

Don’t do it yourself

IT’S FUNNY TO think that a broken gearbox could lead to a physics student folding T-shirts in my lounge...

By Jenny Sinclair

Dummy

MAGGIE IMAGINES THE stale Ginger Nuts and Milk Arrowroots that will be in the biscuit jar at break time,...

By Eleanor Limprecht

Cyclones, fake news and history

IN THE DARK before dawn on 5 March 1899, half way up the eastern edge of Cape York Peninsula,...

By Ian Townsend

When big tech met books

THE FIRST TIME I went to the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2008, I had an appointment with Google. Its...

By Phillipa McGuinness

Salvaged fragment from the recorded small morning hours rage of the vampire
of Silicon Valley 12

[ ]woe to tetravalent metalloids and over eager semiconductors! Beards of purest silicon,...

By Joel Ephraims

The search for ET

OUR WORLD WAS made by a million geniuses. Just switching on a light invokes a chain of historical brilliance...

By Cathal O’Connell

Responding to climate change

In his essay for Griffith Review 63: Writing the Country, ‘Climate change, science and country: A never-ending story’, Brendan...

By Griffith Climate Change Response Program

The animals come. Reminding you to be present, respectful, alert, not lost in the pointlessness of past or future failures. And, as in geography we know we are always and everywhere ‘in the field’, country is also everywhere, not just the bush.

By Michael Adams