Indigenous Historical Fiction and the Radical Reimagining of Australian Historiography

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…

ByAnna van Gelder22 April 2026

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The Voice of Silence: An examination of the role of historical fiction inrepresenting occluded Aboriginal histories

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…

ByAnna van Gelder14 April 2026

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Reflecting on Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

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…

ByEmilie-Rose Westlake-O'Dwyer25 March 2026

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The Quiet Rebellion: Finding Peace in a World on Fire

It is becoming increasingly difficult to stay hopeful when every morning begins with a flood of despair. Before we even leave bed, the world has unravelled again on our screens. War, politics, climate collapse, scandal. The more connected we become, the more fractured we feel. The instinct is to search for calm, but the world…

ByChloe Gillis3 December 2025

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Have we forgotten how to think?

Yes! No! That can’t be true! Wait, is it? Surely not? I find myself twisted and crumpled like an expansive stained napkin when it comes to understanding the world we live in. I see black clouds stampeding their way through the vain and artificial sky. Was it the Dalai Lama who said, ‘The beginning of…

ByAredith Janarth20 October 2025

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When Amateur Hour Met Happy Hour: The Balter Story

Where’s Currumbin? What does it have to do with brightly coloured beer? Angus Taylor’s economic beer theory? A ‘Kerrupt-flip’? Be patient ’til the last. In 2022, on a surf trip to the Pacific, I first came across Bede Durbidge. Bede – a former WSL veteran of a decade and decorated Pipeline Master – told…

ByJasper Derwent15 August 2025

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Are We Witnessing the Decline of Feminism?

Is this still what we fought for? That’s the question that seems to hang quietly behind so much of the cultural discourse right now. From album covers to courtrooms, from social media trends to political movements, feminism feels at once everywhere and somehow nowhere at all. Its language has been adopted, repackaged, and monetised to…

ByChloe Gillis8 August 2025

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Fifty Years Since the Fall of Saigon: A legacy of war, resilience, and reflection

On April 30, 1975, the world witnessed the fall of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. North Vietnamese troops rolled into the city, marking the end of a decades-long conflict and the reunification of Vietnam under a single government. For some, this was a day of liberation and national reunification. For others, it signalled the…

ByKevin Hua30 April 2025

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Asteroid Mining: A new frontier for Australia and sustainability

Asteroid mining refers to the extraction of minerals and raw materials from planetoids in outer space. Some of these Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) contain an “abundance of Rare Earth Elements” (REEs), which are essential for powering many modern technologies. Valuable volatiles and commodities such as silver, gold, platinum, aluminium and cobalt (among others) are also found…

ByEddie Gerard10 April 2025

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At Dawn We Remember: a lasting tribute to the ANZACs

My dad is a quiet man. Joining the navy at 19, he trained to become a clearance diver - a navy seal. His quiet persistence and unwavering emotional aloofness held him in good stead throughout the training period or as David Goggins calls it, ‘Hell Week’. He seems to reminisce fondly, finding comedy in the…

ByJamie Podmore Taylor22 April 2024