“Lamb With Us, or Leave Us”: MLA’s Latest Australia Day Ad Message Pelican15 January 2016 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 Hills Hoist for an afternoon. The whole set-piece is brash, dystopian, hyperbolic and bizarre. The Gruen audience would probably love it Voice1 Comment57 views
Interview: Words with SJ Finch Pelican13 January 2016 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 off the grid or being self-sustainable; it is about working with the grid to make it kinder: to sustain other selves. Uncategorised0 Comments70 views
Vale, David Bowie: You Changed Us Pelican11 January 2016 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-m... Music0 Comments31 views
Stay In Your Lane, Briggs. Pelican6 January 2016 Jamie Briggs, former Minister for Cities and the Built Environment, resigned from his ministerial portfolio last week. Jamie Briggs harassed a young woman, who ... Politics0 Comments28 views
Interview: Words With Mei Saraswati Pelican3 January 2016 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 d... Music0 Comments135 views
In An Unexpected Turn of Events, Pelican Writes About the Interests of Conservative Landowners Pelican30 December 2015 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,... Politics0 Comments48 views
So Much For My Happy Ending Pelican30 December 2015 Hemingway rewrote the ending of A Farewell to Arms forty times. He considered happy endings, sad endings, and finally published a tragically evocative, blood... Literature and Creative Writing0 Comments31 views
Just Asking Pelican30 December 2015 Question: How much is our national identity worth? Or rather, how susceptible are ‘Australian values’ to serious examination? Sorry if these questions are v... Politics0 Comments2 views
Pelican Remembers: Lesser known deaths of 2015 Pelican27 December 2015 Grandpa Swift Rigby (b. 1879) Old Swifty was the oldest known Pelican Editor, serving from 1902 to 1925 in the only autocratic kingship in Pelican History. W... Voice0 Comments7 views
I’ve Been on Grindr for 18 Months and in That Time My Lungs Have Collapsed and the Light of Holiness Has Fled My Soul. Pelican22 December 2015 We’re all familiar with Grindr by now, the infamous hookup app that encompasses the vast panorama of Perth’s comically underwhelming queer scene. ... Voice0 Comments616 views
