Essays

The formation of Australia’s first author-owned publishing cooperative ‘Running Waters is represented by Anmatjere, Warlpiri, Kaytetye, Central Arrernte, Western Arrernte, to say a few,’ Tisha Perrurle Carter tells audiences at the Blak & Bright festival in Naarm (Melbourne) in March ...

Object Theory Birch resin refined into adhesive. Sophisticated ‘factories’ for making tar. Collections of feathers. Pigments made from ochres. Snapped-off stalactites arranged in an eerie, unknowable configuration. Overwhelmingly, distinctive broken and fashioned stones. Bones, both theirs and their numerous prey ...

It started with two. The tents sat side-by-side along Edmondstone Street, in the corner hidden behind the Moreton Bay Fig ...

Universities are public institutions, not corporations. They exist for the public good ...

When I think of scandal—when I take this word and imagine its physical embodiment—I imagine people from centuries ago, gossiping about the latest impropriety or faux pas in society ...

In one sense, outer space is remote, as are the depths of the ocean. But to me the word connotes horizontal distance: the remote places are those we might conceivably visit, and even live in, but they’re far enough away ...

In March 2020, the first modern fish extinction was announced to a quiet reception ...

A park ranger kills some species of animals and tries to save others ...

Since becoming a parent, how I interact with ‘the arts’ has changed. With two children under four, it has become more demanding and participatory ...

The books I have selected are all connected to Meanjin—the location, not the literary journal. This is familiar territory for me: I grew up slightly north of Meanjin/Brisbane, on the stolen lands of the Kabi Kabi people in the hinterland ...

My story is a story of challenge, success, sadness, joy, ongoing struggle and love. My show From Rations to Wages to Treaty is a curated story of song and images that speak to the experiences of many Indigenous people, focusing ...

The media has always been a fast business, and it’s getting faster ...

The year 2024 marks two decades of living in my disabled body. The previous 23 able-bodied years are hazy memories that hold no qualitative value in contrast with the years that followed ...

Eight weeks before the 2016 federal election, a turd dropped on prime minister Malcolm Turnbull’s doorstep. It came not from a rival politician or an opposition campaign but from the plush corridors of the Productivity Commission. In a draft report ...

I have read the Constitution more than once so you don’t have to—though I think you should, because it’s so dry and boring it might be an effective cure for insomnia ...