Review: Loaded
Rather than feeling like the work of young writers auditioning for space on the main stage, the works swelled with daring, collective artistry and creativity, striving to engender the most…
The POTUS Looks Back, Forward, Greyer in 2016 State of the Union Address
People often – and rightly, because democracy – criticize the POTUS (President of the United States), but I think most would agree it’s one of the hardest jobs in the…
“Lamb With Us, or Leave Us”: MLA’s Latest Australia Day Ad Message
In other words, the ad demonstrates an extremely helicopterist method of bringing back into the fold the country’s lost sheep, just so they can eat some baby sheep under a…
Interview: Words with SJ Finch
The Grr project is a poetic response to our world's ecological collapse. It incorporates the work of living with the act of creating art. It is not just about living…
Vale, David Bowie: You Changed Us
David Bowie’s role in music was one of the weightiest to ever come careening into western culture as we know it today. His death, concluding a concealed 18-month battle with…
Stay In Your Lane, Briggs.
Jamie Briggs, former Minister for Cities and the Built Environment, resigned from his ministerial portfolio last week. Jamie Briggs harassed a young woman, who most likely felt particularly vulnerable and…
Interview: Words With Mei Saraswati
Gabby Loo sat down with a local maker of dreamy, soulful and mysterious music, Mei Saraswati, just before her performance at Proximity Festival 2015. What does your general artist practice…
In An Unexpected Turn of Events, Pelican Writes About the Interests of Conservative Landowners
The Australian Nationals used to be a tour de force in Australian politics. They gave us multiple Prime Ministers and governed Queensland for 32 years straight, most notably under Joh…
So Much For My Happy Ending
Hemingway rewrote the ending of A Farewell to Arms forty times. He considered happy endings, sad endings, and finally published a tragically evocative, bloody, devastating finale which consolidates everything he…
Just Asking
Question: How much is our national identity worth? Or rather, how susceptible are ‘Australian values’ to serious examination? Sorry if these questions are vague or flimsy, but then again, Australians…