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Mourning
Grief enters with a whisper, rearranges the furniture and then asks me to sit beside it.
I was raised to believe that Death was a clear and sacred threshold: a final breath, a closed casket, a soul ascending in accordance with divine judgment. I was warned to fear sin, to prepare for Death as…
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I Think You Saw It Too. I’m sure you saw it. Somewhere between everything else, scrolling, moving, thinking about what’s next, you would have come across it.
NASA. Artemis II. The furthest humans have ever gone. Headlines about how they went further than anyone in history. How they slipped behind the Moon. How, for a…
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While The Voice of Silence established that historical fiction can meaningfully humanise the emotional dimensions of colonisation, white-written narratives such as Eleanor Dark’s The Timeless Land (1941) and Kate Grenville’s The Secret River (2005) remain epistemologically constrained by the very Western frameworks they seek to critique. To merely include Aboriginal perspectives within those inherited structures…
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In his polemic 1968 Boyer Lecture, W.E.H. Stanner first introduced the term “Great Australian Silence” to expose the structural erasure of Aboriginal history from the Australian narrative, labelling a nationwide “cult of forgetfulness” to critique historians from the 1930s to the early 1960s. However, Stanner was not simply critiquing the omission of Aboriginal historiography, but…
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We no longer produce; we rehearse production.
In late capitalism, productivity has undergone a quiet but decisive transformation. No longer confined to material output, it has been internalised as a condition of subjectivity itself. As the external frontiers of accumulation have been exhausted, capital has turned inward, capturing perception, affect, and consciousness as new sites…
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“...I draw a sword against conspirators; When think you that the sword goes up again?” Julius Caesar, Act V scene I
The Digital Freedom Project’s High Court Challenge has the same vibe as a retreating dotcom garrison running some rearguard action in order to keep their platforms available to Australia’s youth.
This is eerily reminiscent of…
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But wounds will wince, especially in the salt air… Patrick White, Voss
The deep Australianism and general can-do attitude of the surf community have often suppressed its sense of danger. Drowning, ailments and collisions are worries that were long-swallowed as ‘parts of the sport’, and risks one assumes when they partake in it. Braving a Sunday…