3D printing: a technological utopia?
In this late addition to Right Now’s February edition, Technology and Human Rights, Isabella Royce sets out (in three dimensions) everything you ever needed to know about rights and 3D printing.
Society and Culture – Page 40
Review: ‘The Palestine Laboratory’
'The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology Occupation Around the World' is a must read for those wanting to understand how the oppression of Palestinians is intertwined with the export of military technologies worldwide.
Hard Rubbish
This short story by Rose Hartley was awarded joint runner-up of Right Now’s Fiction Competition, judged by Anna Funder and Tony Birch.
Hope Road
This new poem from Kathleen McLeod was shortlisted for the Right Now Poetry Competition, judged by Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Amanda Anastasi and Benjamin Solah.
The love story of East Timor’s independence
Alias Ruby Blade is essential viewing for a behind the scenes insight into the lead up to Timor-Leste’s freedom from Indonesian rule, writes Maya Borom
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Written by Robert Verdon, this poem was awarded runner up in the Right Now Poetry Competition, judged by Maxine Beneba-Clarke, Amanda Anastasi and Benjamin Solah.
Short Story Ideas About Violence, after Doris Lessing
Written by Sam Wilson, this story was the joint-runner up of of Right Now’s Fiction Competition, judged by Anna Funder and Tony Birch.
Us in Western Sydney
Stephen Pham reviews Luke Carman’s An Elegant Young Man, finding that it opened up new ways of exploring his own identity and the culture of his home, Western Sydney.
Wednesday is cooking day
Short fiction from Laura McPhee-Browne, shortlisted for the Right Now Poetry and Fiction Competition, judged by Anna Funder and Tony Birch.
Coming of Age: Growing Up Muslim in Australia – Mid-Week Review
No religious group in Australia has been subject to the level of vilification that Muslims have. Coming of Age: Growing Up Muslim in Australia offers a series of personal accounts that debunk the stereotypes, writes Sonia Nair.
Shrinking horizons: the Internet and invisible bias
Steph Murphy asks whether technology is really expanding our horizons in her article on the internet, smart searching and confirmation bias.
Right Now Poetry and Fiction Competition – Shortlists and Winners Announced
The shortlists and winners unveiled.
After Humanity
As humanity merges with ever more advanced machines, we will evolve into a new species that blends human and technological traits – the posthuman. But do new technologies dehumanise us? Scott Arthurson explores what it means to be human.