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Polemics The art of failing upwards Why are the cops at Pride? Adjudicating aberrance: Assange and the Australian state Empty words: the Coalition Government and violence against women Mass unemployment, bullshit jobs, and ‘essential’ work Why the Liberals want Victoria to fail What COVID-19 tells us about capitalism Housing is a right, homelessness is a weapon Coronavirus and the police state Stay at home! The politics of COVID-19 Today we give ourselves permission Communiqué from the Department of Homo Affairs - #resist250 Karens I have known: a reply to Julia Baird What happened to Richard Dawkins? The pseudo-politics of kindness Living with HIV: the conflict of interest between AIDS organisations and the pharmaceutical industry On burning forests It's neoliberalism that lit the fires 1999: The greatest year in phalluloid Police being violent? As if ... The myth of ‘the most successful multicultural country in the world’ Why the phrase ‘toxic masculinity’ is an obstacle to change Can we stop the rape jokes now? Ramsay, Marx and the ghosts of the Western canon LinkedIn love?! On the side of justice: Indigenous communities versus Adani Speaking from the dumpster fire of our times How we fight the border industrial complex What the fate of ‘Jihadi brides’ tells us about being Muslim in Australia An inherently stupid prize of our own? Labor's refugee abyss My very dishonourable dishonour fee And the winner isn’t: on the inherent stupidity of literary prizes Where are all the disabled academics? The criminal silence of the Australian media on Sudan Suicide is more than just a tragedy A forgotten history of terrorism On free speech on campus, and why the French code will be no help Squeezed by Lime: e-scooters and the tragedy of the commons Against liberal tolerance New Zealand’s own stolen generations Our self-harm, your free speech: an open letter We live in anti-political times Federal election 2019: What the hell just happened? Five arguments Where to now for the left? The other side of climate grief is climate fury Just award the Vogel's already Stop scapegoating international students: an open letter from NTEU members Let’s abolish the Border Force and Home Affairs The casualties of academia: a response to The Conversation Intimacy. Extinction. 2000 dead bats. Rebuilding the ANZAC cathedral: more ludicrous spending for national validation My art doesn’t exist to educate white people: the meaning and purpose of Where are you from? Before we ossify: on forgetting, radical histories and the Anthropocene Cardinal rules: Keith Windschuttle's extraordinary defence of George Pell Playing God with our lives and stories: the stubborn power of the Pacific muse The Ramsay Centre and the reality of ideology ‘We feed you.’ The real cost of undocumented labour in Australia 57 hours of Donkey Kong! (or Why the left should care more about gaming) Sticky floors and Sticky Fingers For the love of the music Many generations in flames Pride and Liberal Party prejudices Mapping deaths in custody to dismantle carceral logic The right to be cool, even during a heatwave KonMari and minimalism: fads for the affluent and aspirational From boomer to millennial bust A left case against borders: a response to, among others, Angela Nagle My best friend’s wedding Subjects of the imagination: on dropping the settler pen Abolish ASIO: a person of littler interest Why the Greens will continue to fail Back to where they came from: against conditional belonging How to organise a call centre King Leer When fascist despair leads to fascist terror It’s a bad time to be an early career researcher Un-mappable Fascism: What maps can (and can’t) explain about the Brazilian election False dichotomies: against the ‘Lifetime Ban’ Bill The ‘soft’ violence of onshore immigration detention Long live the gender whisperers ‘Think in the national language’ and other assimilationist proverbs The aspirationals vs the burdens: reading migrants and refugees through No Friend but the Mountains There’s no such thing as a free speech The reality of endometriosis Sleepwalking into a digital dystopia On sharks The under-represented many: on gender prejudice in music Breaking the consensus: where to for the left Bi choice Not just a culture war: the Ramsay Centre and Sydney University Against brilliance No, I’m not OK: the isolation of R U OK? Day Festivals and censorship Climate change was so last year: writers’ festivals and the great derangement Invisible, until … On harassment and power in literary culture Reclaiming ‘provincialism’ – and the regional university No use crying over spilt Libs The limits of ‘sisterhood’: on gendered and racial violence The final solution Racists on speaking tour: rethinking our response A new red scare? On the campaign against Chinese influence On the fear of a ‘foreign invasion’ Why I won’t come to your gig Death of the Facebook author: rethinking ‘intent’ Why the alt-right want to call Australia home POC reading groups as an act of resistance Contrapower: on sexual harassment by students Diamonds bite back: a response to Robert Wood Unfunded excellence: on the mid-career crisis for Australian artists First walk with me: on our assumptions about refugees Gamers and managers vs workers: the impossible (and gendered) standards imposed on game developers Bad reception: socialising and dating without a voice The inhospitable university (or the machine of knowledge and ignorance) A brief (fascist) history of ‘I don’t care’ The bureaucratic absurdities of teaching in New South Wales The Devil’s Decade Living in fear Writing politics in a burning world Muslim women and the neoliberal logic of ‘empowerment’ Politicising the playground Disgusting entities: on the moralising meat-eaters A defence of FanFiction Is there a future for the left in the Greens? Racism and the China debate: a response to Chris Zappone The haunting of Law & Order: SVU Unthinking modernity: on the Great Derangement Beyond antidepressants Shopping for love on the meat market Karl Marx turns 200 Passing without distinction: on taste, class and quizzes What I learnt from my PhD (in creative writing) From misery to misogyny: incels and the far right 100 years of Anzac: ludicrous spending for nationalist validation The myth of the Vogel Mass incarceration is a feature not a bug Against ‘neo-peasantry’ and the desire for self-sufficiency On solidarity with Gazans The wolves of the sandstones Mourning glory: the narcissism of the Australian ideal Failure is always an option: on Unkle Adams’ YouTube series South Africa: where ‘Australia’ is code for racist I, Algorithm: on AI imitating art Narcissism isn’t what it used to be Appearance and reputation over education: on Monash University’s arts cuts Fetishising Black Panther Communiqué from the Department of Homo Affairs Safe swimming spaces, free of the cis-male gaze The mad and the bad: against pathologising mental illness Will the Victorian Socialists shake up Victoria’s election year? Beyond fees: a case for a waged education ‘Words are cheap’: ten years on, Mparntwe fears another Stolen Generation Beyond startups: supporting Australian videogame culture Total and utter racist bullshit When you ban a song against Nazis on Holocaust Remembrance Day The battle is far from over How Labor can win back Victoria’s love (part three) Lawsuits and Lorde Victoria’s lost love for Labor: firefighters and unions (part two) Victoria’s lost love for Labor (part one) Should we stop using Ubers then? ‘Low Confidence’: there's no DNA test for culture On fetishising busyness and tiredness ‘Do we not laugh?’ On the continuing obsession with Merchant of Venice After liberalism: a response to ‘Safe White Spaces’ The Other people: CALD and the ‘Cat person’ Analogies and excuses: racism and the marriage equality debate Everybody’s heading for the exit Criminal bosses belong in criminal courts Won’t someone think of the boys ‘I don’t know why they do shit like ice. Fucking Junkies.’ How rock gods think: the politics of Nick Cave and Thom Yorke Marriage Equality: the victory and the aftermath On shedding the patronym A sex worker’s consent: solidarity, not sanctimony Manus Island: building on the outrage The very real economic roots of #MeToo Bodies in Trouble: on sexual violence and the problem with hashtags No room for children: the absurd theory of population control I, a Yolngu man from Arnhem Land Seeing through perspective: a blind tourist’s guide to art Rainbows, not media storms Not ‘disabled enough’ Your disco needs you Teenagers believe in marriage equality and we deserve a vote Dear Malcolm On Australian poetry now: a response to David Campbell This shit is not normal ‘Kids are gross’: on feminists and agency The restoration of George W Bush ‘Some dark shit’ ‘Stitched up’: on what she was wearing ‘Dr Goebbels’ mastheads’: on antisemitism and News Corp Dutton’s White Australia Otto Warmbier was a victim of capitalism Australia has a long history of feeding the disabled through a meat grinder The battle for the Greens Content discontent Fear of a yellow planet On politicising tragedy Fit for habitation: Grenfell Tower, class and solidarity Literary production versus institutional whiteness Corbyn’s new day ‘Just a person’: race and the Australian literati Against choice feminism Blak Critics: flipping the power play in the arts A modest budget proposal When will the Good Muslim speak up? In New Zealand, where abortion is still a crime You can be a successful writer, but only if you live in Melbourne or Sydney When the aim is to dismantle all walls: on liberal Zionism and the Women’s Strike The principal preoccupation of writers the world over The only way is up (via anxiety and endless self-promotion) Frenemies: severing the ties between LGBTQI and the far right Seeking welcome while Australian Maintain the wage rage The Democratic Party is already great! Heterosexual privilege Still failing trans people Shakespeare in Rwanda: the white-saviour industrial complex Not just born to make meat: resisting the sexism of reviewing culture Stupid cultures: on our obsession with Literature Chicken feet with a side of racism Celebrating the conquistadors Dole-bludgers, leaners and other neoliberal fantasies Embedded misogyny: the academic erasure of women Deveny’s ‘financial abortion’ is a form of coercive control Yet more cuts to the guts: on the recent ABC funding cuts The man without a legacy The small violences Truth: executed by political consensus A plague on the Whitehouse The 400ppm tipping point On nationalising Facebook, or perhaps just its architecture Degrees of debt: the failure of creative writing courses Dylan’s Nobel: the true birthright of the male artist The artlessness of politics Revisionist History in need of some revisions A short history of the dangers of travel writing The undead past ‘Go back to China!’: on imposed identities Her real name: on the unmasking of Elena Ferrante A chop to multiculturalism The spectre of union donations Pseudo-secularism and the French Left Can I still call Australia home? The illusion of deterrence Trump, fascism, Putin and Wikileaks: the anatomy of a liberal nervous breakdown On opposition to Helen Clark’s UN bid The violence of forgiveness If you have a racist friend Labour camps: the election lines on the left Poor writing: on bogan hunting in the bookshop A short turn to the death of democracy Generation rent Ghosts at the borders You can have submarines instead The left and anti-Semitism We, a nation of torturers When will Jesus show up? Enter Stella: on why we still need women-only literary prizes Space racism: on Hollywood actors & their whitewashing Pants on fire! Australia, exceptional in its brutality Erasing LGBTI history The anti-trans backlash is here The politics of genius Fortress Mardi Gras #INeedSafeSchools Vulgar rhetoric The agents of racism The lockout laws’ casino clause We need a better refugee rights campaign The folly of appealing to Fortress Dutton Just another Alderaan Stage-managing cruelty Science fiction saves the world – again! Putting your money where your alma mater is The bull has turned Cultural inappropriation No pussies in peril Who’s afraid of the plebiscite? Bully for you, Piers Akerman A good week for Nazism Storm in a Vegemite jar Overboiled and over it Who’s looking out for male writers? Man up manifesto: support your fellow writers! White rage A tale of two trans women A child is not a child if she is a refugee The last time they turned back the boats We need a new Brand for the UK Another day, another SBS journalist sacked What comes after sorry? When poetry is racist ‘Are there Black people in Australia?’ Passing creative muster The Muslim Menace ‘A diversity of views leads to more dynamic public discourse!’: Julie Bishop and Mamamia Turning the tide, again We are unapologetic spoilsports The obstruction of German racism Supanova: uninvite Gamergate’s Adam Baldwin! Where exactly are we riding? Who do TPVs protect? On Martin Place For a four-day working week Rosa Parks in Australia Racism and the journeys of heroes Beyond cute children: the new transgender conversation Islam and monolithic stereotypes: a response to John Morrissey Making revolution: a reply to Davidson Citizen Can A man has been tortured – all is going to plan Against experts The multicultural zombie Terror then and now This is the way the world ends Pyneing for the Right student politics Game of moans: the death throes of the male ‘gamer’ Lest we forget that history repeats Team Australia versus Jihadi dole bludgers Palestine and the Saturday Paper Busy earnin’: Iggy Azalea, Jungle and appropriation Surveillance of activists is about to get much, much worse Gaza: if not now, when? After the carbon tax: crisis mongering does not help Mr Freedom’s at it again! Trading insults: Australia and the TPPA Still life: a response to Liam Byrne The caliphate’s troll vanguard A new low The anti-Abbott movement: time to rethink Unity is death Festival of reaction On the Greste case What the West has wrought in the Middle East An art of gold: against ‘smart thinking’ On the exceptionalism of ‘the good refugee’ Sinking like a stone: the new generationalism in Australia Erasing transgender women doesn’t erase gender On the Age of Entitlement Farewell to the University Why we shouldn’t #BringBackOurGirls Tony Abbott and the white man’s burden Talkin loud but sayin nothin Andrew Bolt: exposed by his own freedom Fracking and drilling and fuels! Oh my! The enemy within A pound of flesh: the penalty for seeking refuge The new gilded age Freedom and its enemies Trigger happy? A short history of treason in the media Fiddling while Palestine burns Russian aggression, western hypocrisy Racism and liberal culture: a love story Pyne’s shrines: reinventing history Minor bigot or major threat? Five hundred years a slave Beyond belief: the hell of ‘atheist church’ Labor in vain: a new direction for refugee rights? Punitive refugee detention: how much worse can it get? The attacks on the East West tunnel picket A rose by any other name: making stuff up about anarchists Lost at sea: why Abbott's winning against the ABC Woody Allen and the history of False Memory Syndrome The power that billionaires have No, Bob Hawke didn’t free Nelson Mandela Fashion, hipsters and the appropriation of culture The curriculum wars Travelling circuits: on ‘emerging’ writers & festivals New year, new culture war Politics dressed up in a clown suit All this talk of abortion makes me want to say something The problem with studying journalism Really, what’s so great about the New Yorker? Less David Simon, more Karl Marx Reclaiming the bush: pubic hair and pornography Blame the politicians, not the voters Reclaiming women-only spaces Vigilance and the slippery slope to vigilantism Joss Whedon and The Progressive Nerd Bro Playbook Warren Mundine and the case for self-determination This is what rape culture looks like Why literary magazines: a response to Robyn Annear Anti-Semitism at Bondi Helen Razer's beauty myth Australian of the Year? Russell’s brand of revolution The media and the Intervention The boat has not left: a reply to Gregor Gall Growing like weeds: literary magazines today Missing the boat? The Left and the GFC Against equality Why has naloxone been kept from those who need it? The age of conservatism Leaderless Kool Aid and the case for despair The ACTU and ‘wage restraint’: a reply to Matt Cowgill Dead men walking A khaki future? The trouble with Cupid How to lose a culture war: a response to Ben Eltham Equal but different Speaking for the Other Stolen Futures Syria and selective historical memory This election day, very little is actually up for vote Breakout at the un-OK corral Why politicians hate you Scenes from a mall that doesn't exist The good news behind that Telegraph headline On changing my mind about sex work This ‘frail young girl’ ‘Yes, you lied to me all these years’ A load of frolics The Common Man’s Front Vice and the sincerity emergency Bill Gates vs polio Gillard pushed Labor to the Right It’s not about the knitting Labor's leadership issue: it's not the media's fault Not a crisis of misogyny: a crisis of political authority For a universal minimum income The most oppressed people since oppression began The Left needs its own agenda A case study in obsession Chickens for Colonel Sanders: a response to Van Badham On the 'we're all racist' deepity 'Disguising Islamophobia' revisited: a response to Yassir Morsi Reply to O'Shea and Razer on cultural politics and the Left Saving the Muslim woman, yet again Helen Razer, symbolism and the Left Reasons to hate football and Manchester United Is Richard Dawkins responsible for Thatcherism? 'This fascist mob' A response to Gerard Henderson The Church’s new flavour Neoliberals on bikes In memory of Yitzhak Shamir Corpses pile up Living in The Avengers' universe On Atheism and the Left After the riots When you crack open your Easter eggs, think of wombs From Freethought to New Atheism So it's Carr(ion) A reply to Windschuttle Sexing up animal rights: is it wrong? Something rotten at the heart of Sydney University A reply to CIS on the Intervention Not all feminists are equal Universities in ruins Occupy Melbourne: eviction The Bolt decision Andrew Bolt, racial vilification and 'freedom of speech' Shame. For non-legals: a guide to the High Court’s ruling Maliciousness in memes The friends and enemies of feminism Racist #1 – The ute driver Gods of the state: atheism and barbarity Speaking rights, hoaxes and straight white men The Left, the Right and the New Atheism: a response to PZ Myers Response Michael Brull versus Tad Tietze, ′That political Islam is not a friend of the Left′ The great carbon hypocrisy LOL Bolt and free speech Supporting Assange ≠ condoning rape. Permanent residency not sold separately, education not included Recent Comments Archive Prizes Contribute Policy
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