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Blokes Will Be Blokes
There has been a particular rhetoric in parliament over the past months. Each time a man (or a Liberal Party woman, which is to say a proxy for the patriarchy) has stood in front of cameras to weep, he has delivered a wink and a nod to others like him, through crocodile tears, as to the true nature of the story. Not that a young woman’s life has been irrevocably changed by a man’s actions, but that a poor, silly fella is being taken to task in front of his mates. Look, he seems to say, you know how blokes […]
Q for Conspiracy
It seemed I might be washed away. It was mid December, three weeks before rioters stormed the Capitol Building in Washington, DC. I was driving through the Northern Rivers region, just south of the Queensland border, and listening to podcasts by Pete Evans, Australia’s most prominent proponent of QAnon conspiracy theories.
Bad Character
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Eye-Bones in Your Throat
I’ve been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, one of the largest book prize for authors in Australia; the ceremony is on 10 December, and I don’t want to go. You only need to attend one award ceremony to know why they’re best avoided.
My, How Things Have Changed
I joined the public service in the mid 1960s. The purpose of this essay is to review and reflect upon the changes that have taken place since in the way we are governed, and to hazard some thoughts about whether the way we are governed now is fit to meet the challenges we face. The story that emerges is one of governments wrestling with the relationship between government and the public service, especially the relationships between ministers and their department heads, the services to be provided to ministers to enable them to discharge their ministerial functions, and the relationships between […]
The Holotypes
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Fault Lines at the Australian War Memorial
When contemplating the historical efficacy of this nation’s secular shrine, the Australian War Memorial, it is best to stand out front in the middle of Anzac Parade, look up towards Mount Ainslie and imagine what was originally intended.
Whoo-Hoo Thinking
Whoo-hoo.
Whoo-hoo.
It is strong but with soft acoustic edges, a voice with the breath of a creature grown in high tree hollows.
Up Into the Mountains and Down to the Countryside
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Canberra
On November 2018, the Icelandic composer and ‘multi-instrumentalist’ Ólafur Arnalds walked onstage at Canberra Theatre and offered his first impression of the city before a packed house. ‘As we landed in your elusive capital,’ he began…
Indigenous Art, Beyond Stereotypes
‘If you want to say something in anger they won’t listen to you,’ said Lawford-Wolf, who originally trained as a dancer with the Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre before performing with Bangarra Dance Theatre, in an interview in 1995. ‘So you’ve got to learn to be diplomatic, to learn to change it all around, to do it in their little syrupy way … I’ve managed to perfect that.’
