Saving Rice Relations
Saving Rice Relations is a political time-travelling satire. This fictional letter pens instructions that the author wishes had been said during the rise of Hansonism.
Tag Archives: race
Little Stones and Potholes in the Road: A conversation with Elizabeth Kuiper
Janelle Koh speaks with Elizabeth Kuiper about her new novel, Little Stones, and its’ portrayal of Zimbabwe’s complicated inheritance – Robert Mugabe’s legacy.
Michael Cook employs role reversal to challenge who belongs where
It is the combination of angry, overt role-reversal and more enigmatic images that makes Object a fascinating social and historical commentary, writes Christopher Ringrose.
Involuntary Sterilisation of Marginalised Women
Forced sterilisation is the State’s way of discriminating against and controlling the fertility of the most vulnerable the world over; namely, marginalised women.
Once Upon a Time in Punchbowl (Episode 1): War’s Children
Watching episode 1 of Once Upon a Time in Punchbowl stirred strong feelings of both familiarity and a sense of ruptured culture for Mohamad Tabbaa.
Individual rights and solidarity
Dario Mujkic considers the “individualism” in rights discourse, the challenges of isolation and conflict that this poses, and the silver lining that is solidarity
No Asians. Your Desire
This striking poem by Jake Dennis won the Right Now Poetry Competition, judged by Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Amanda Anastasi and Benjamin Solah.
Protecting people from harm
Mark McMillan on the proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act, the usefulness of anti-discrimination legislation and his personal reflections on taking Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt to court
Cried Wolf – Short Fiction by Steven Jerram
“What’s your name?”
He told them.
“Where does that name come from?”
“From? My mother.”
Editorial: Cultural Shift
When it comes to significant shifts in culture, law and society are poised in an agonising “chicken or egg” scenario. Does the law change from above, trickling down to alter a culture? Or does a movement rise up, demand, fight, lobby for a change to which the law eventually concedes? It’s a dynamic relationship that doesn’t obey a strict rule of cause and effect.