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“To remain in place without the means to move is to experience a narrowing of possible futures.”
Emma Goldrick on how distance in Australia is political.
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A piece on the ‘audit’ of higher education
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“… We knew they could / only be betrayed by their own.”
Our latest #fridaypoem is JUDAS GOATS by Caitlin Maling
If we are to better understand inequality within Australia, we must begin with the recognition that disadvantage does not only reside in income brackets or postcodes associated with urban poverty. It ...
“Because there’s no doubt that more people are being screwed than ever in the housing market, including the middle-class Boomers’ kids. But some people have always been screwed.”
May Ngo reviews Fiona Wright’s KILL YOUR BOOMERS - with the generous support of @copyright.com.au.
“CALENDAR is a unique object in and of itself as much as it is about objects.”
Courtney Powell on Vanessa Berry’s new book, its origins in zine culture and the material world as an ecology of signs.
“We crossed the half-buried railway line and the crazy man known as Treadly Tim turned a corner around the van park on Simeon Street and came toward us on his Malvern Star bicycle.”
Any more of this new micro fiction by Patrick Holland, and we’d give the whole thing away.
“GeoCities remains an important reminder that collective labour on the internet is not new — and that recognising ourselves as workers is the first step towards organising as such.”
Maria Dudko on social media as work.
In November 2025, when antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal announced that Emeritus Professor Greg Craven would head what she called the “University Report Card Project”, the media referred to her plan as...
“More than four decades on, Edward Said’s famous observation that ‘permission to narrate’ is denied to the Palestinian perspective has lost none of its currency.”
Nick Riemer reviews the transcripts of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion.
“To conduct her so-called “audit”, Jillian Segal appointed a man who’d had not only found the universities guilty of tolerating antisemitism but had described them as “subscribing” to it.”
Jeff Sparrow on Greg Craven's antisemitism audit.
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Jeff Sparrow
Because goats can climb / and cave, clamber to find cover / in the bushes of what they can’t eat / which isn’t much.
The precarity described in Kill Your Boomers feels mitigated — more existential than material. It’s the precarity of being lost in your life, rather than the threat of having to sleep out on the stree...
GeoCities remains an important reminder that collective labour on the internet is not new — and that recognising ourselves as workers is the first step towards organising as such.
In her latest book, Calendar, Vanessa Berry explores the relationships that are formed between people and material culture, both fleeting and sentimental, and how they can come to represent us.
We crossed the half-buried railway line and the crazy man known as Treadly Tim turned a corner around the van park on Simeon Street and came toward us on his Malvern Star bicycle.
While the Royal Commission sits, Israel continues to murder and starve Gazans as they try somehow to survive. Since the genocide is, indisputably, the necessary overarching context for a discussion of...
In November 2025, when antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal announced that Emeritus Professor Greg Craven would head what she called the “University Report Card Project”, the media referred to her plan as...
