In the final instalment of Griffith Review's Backstory series, Nance Haxton examines the multiple challenges faced by students with disabilities during and after the Covid lockdowns in Australia, and asks why they feel they've been let down so badly by the government.
Get the latest essay, memoir, reportage, fiction, poetry and more.
Subscribe to Griffith Review or purchase single editions here.
More From This Edition
Prismatic perspectives
IN 1816, DAVID Brewster, a Scottish mathematician and physicist, invented a new kind of optical device. A narrow tube, fragments of coloured glass gathered loosely at one end were rearranged as the tube turned, refracting a series of recombining mandalas for the viewer (at the other end) thanks to mirrors set inside. A slight turn... Read more
More From This Edition
Remaking universities
CAN WE GRIEVE not for a person but for an institution? Should we be angry over possibilities destroyed, young talents denied a chance to flourish? Is there any point in lamenting greed, short-sightedness, the brutality of power?
As I write this, in September 2021, Australian higher education is in a deeper hole than it has been... Read more
More From This Author
The Backstory #3: Returning fire to Australia’s landscapes
In the latest Griffith Review Backstory podcast – in support of Griffith Review 71: Remaking the Balance – Nance Haxton explores the return of Indigenous fire regimes to Australia’s landscape for ecological management and cultural practice. She encounters practitioners and stories that speak to the power of this tool in terms of recovery, reconnection and reconciliation.
Griffith Review · Backstory #3... Read more
You May Also Like
Transforming landscapes
A system that cannot deliver the wellbeing of people and nature is in deep trouble. It invites ideas and actions that are transformative. James Gustav Speth, The Bridge at the End of the World: Capitalism, the Environment and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability[i]
IN AN ARTICLE in The London Review of Books from September 2017,... Read more
