Namelessness
There is a particular solemn beauty about fleetingly meeting someone, and farewelling them, and realising that you will very likely never see each other again. Not those obligatory mundane exchanges,…
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There is a particular solemn beauty about fleetingly meeting someone, and farewelling them, and realising that you will very likely never see each other again. Not those obligatory mundane exchanges,…
Remember the first time you rode a bike? That fuzzy feeling you just got is the result of getting nostalgic, one of the most common phenomenon amongst us humans and…
It’s pretty hard to feel genuinely engaged with politics. When the major news of the day is the PM maniacally wolfing down a vegetable, or worse yet, one of Bill…
1990s anti-One Nation protesters Hey Hey, Ho Ho Pauline Hanson’s got to go Sexist, racist, anti-gay, right-wing bigots go away Racist, sexist, anti-queer, Liberals are not welcome here Say it…
Glory holes. Pomegranate sized apertures drilled between toilet cubicles, booths in adult bookstores or installed privately through bedsheets or mattresses. For a long time, glory holes were the domain of…
This is your land, but now you must leave. You are being told by a stranger who is gladly ignorant of your culture and history that you must leave. Worse…
Life is a continuation of scary first experiences, but we grow and we learn. Some things become less scary because we realise that actually, everyone has to do them eventually.…
It is disheartening when politicians prove they are not the perfect combination of intellectual and activist. I am writing about former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. In August of 2014…
Ahhh ‘politics’. It’s often a word with a lot of negative connotations. When I asked one of my friends for his thoughts on current politics, he described it as “Lame,…
The theme of ‘firsts’ is a great way to kick off this new regular feature in the Pelican Politics section. The idea behind this new regular is to highlight political…