In trying to get a little for myself, why must I push someone else down?
Reviews
Joanna Murray-Smith’s play Julia, directed by Sarah Goodes, is a dramatic retelling of the events leading up to Julia Gillard’s famous 2012 “Misogyny Speech”.
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Proud Toyota Hilux owner, Jayden Jaydensen has formed an unlikely bond with a local magpie. The 26 year old tradie said he was scoffing down his daily four and twenty during his second lunch break when he saw the magpie... Read More ›
Debating the stakes of the “New Puritanism”
Andrew Fowler's new book documents in meticulous detail the way in which Scott Morrison’s government campaigned to win US support for the project.
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Is the car our most gendered technology?
Director Jonathan Glazer’s speech after winning Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards punctured the banality of the ceremony.
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The Economist, a leading British weekly, enjoys wide global readership. It recently covered the thoughts and written work of two scholars, both Chinese, one now government-based, in Beijing and the other based in an academic institution in the US. Only the former, was branded as an “ideologue” however. Paraphrasing Professor Julius Sumner Miller: Why is Continue reading »
The vengeful, scheming, genocidal response unleashed since October last year in Gaza, by Israel, has prompted a profoundly intensified global review of the punishing history related to the establishment of the State of Israel and its colonial-settler expansion ever since 1948. An exceptional commentator, Pankaj Mishra, has now contributed an avidly argued, candid extended essay Continue reading »
A murder mystery that is also an impressive sociological imaginary.