Sixteen Dollars for a Fossil: Homer’s The Odyssey
Homer's "The Odyssey" highlights the variation in language and reader perception that may go quietly unnoticed among translations.
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October 28, 2026
Marathon, Not Hastings: The Inheritance a Bigot Never Read
Some argue that Australia is built upon British culture, but what are the origins of that culture? The answer may surprise.
October 24, 2026
Sixty Years On: Aberfan and the Cost of Not Listening
Sixty years on, the ineptitude that resulted in the Aberfan disaster remains at the heart of government and corporate culture.
October 23, 2026
Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Human Rights / Law / Racial Discrimination Act / Racism / Rule of Law
Hanson: The Dare and the Record
Pauline Hanson's defintion of racism ignores both the Racial Discrimination Act and the intimation of racial superiority in her own statements.
October 22, 2026
What We Said Over Breakfast: Helen Haines and Division
Helen Haines tragedy highlights a deteriorating social climate around politicians and media, generating division in the community.
October 21, 2026
The Myth of Terra Nullius
Biyaami's law does not wait for a judge ... Wiradjuri country was never terra nullius.
October 20, 2026
First Nations · Indigenous Culture And Politics
The culture of First Nations people was cherished by Pope John Paul II in a way few non-Indgenous people have bothered to try.
October 10, 2026
Songs as Archive
The carriage of history through song is not unique to Aboriginal people. It is a record of events, as important as Homer, that must be read in context.
October 7, 2026
Wangarr, Tjukurrpa, Ngurambang: Ceremony as the Law of Country
Dreamtime and Welcome to Country are continuities of Aboriginal law, unique to each country and extending throughout time.
October 6, 2026
Division and the Deaf
The 75th anniversary of the World Federation of the Deaf reminds us that whilst hearing impairment can result in discrimination, not all consider it a disability.
September 24, 2026
Poetry as a Form of Resistance: Voice, Witness, and the Defiance of Oppression
Poetry is the art of remaining human, a happening, an act of resistance that even when the pages that held it are burned, lives on.
August 20, 2026
The Unfinished Masterpiece: Multicultural Australia as a Work in Progress
Australia is a ongoing multicultural masterpiece in the making.
July 29, 2026
The Reformed Man: Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey and the Modern Hero
Nolan's Odysseus is a hero of insight, presented for an audience who would shy away from Homer's original more brutish ruler, heedless of those he harms.
July 24, 2026
The Mirage In The Distance: The Right’s Invented Golden Age
Culture is constantly evolving, each generation inheriting portions and adding to it,, such that no one group can place a claim on it.
July 16, 2026
The Business Of Men: Penelope, Power and Australia’s Unfinished Reckoning
Homer's The Odyssey records the earliest instance of verbal abuse of a woman, demonstrating an embedded cultural trope that requires rectifying.
July 14, 2026
Art / Australian Aborigines / Culture / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Mining / Uncategorized
The Enduring Legacy Of Murujuga: The International Significance Of The Mardathoonera Rock Art
Enforceable protections for the ancient rock art at Murujuga from the North West Shelf gas industry are critical to ensuring that it survives another fifty-thousand years.
July 12, 2026
The Sand Remembers What the State Forgets: Uyghur Cultural Survival and the Architecture of Forgetting
Survival of Uyghur culture is dependent on the transmission of language and culture among its diaspora.
July 3, 2026
The Mirror We Refuse To Hold: Australian Culture and Male Violence
What will it take for Australia's leaders to address the never-ending spate of abuses perpetuated against women?
June 30, 2026
The Politics of Division: Hanson, Australia and Its Thirty-Year Unresolved Argument
Australia needs to discuss what immigration looks like, from origins to infrastructure, community cohesion to differing norms.
June 26, 2026
Impossible Monoculture: Diversity, Pluralism and the Australia That Actually Exists
I. Two Arguments That Must Not Be Confused The case against monoculturalism in Australia rests on two distinct foundations that are often conflated, and the conflation weakens both. The first…
June 25, 2026