Beneath the Surface: Behind the Battle for Hearts, Minds and the Great...
This essay was written as part of the Kill Your Darlings Copyright Agency Investigative Journalism Mentorship program, which was devised to help support emerging journalists. To download a PDF of the...
View ArticleLockup or Lockout: The NSW Government’s Response to Alcohol-Related Violence
This essay was written as part of the Kill Your Darlings Copyright Agency Investigative Journalism Mentorship program, which was devised to help support emerging journalists. To download a PDF of the...
View ArticlePetrol, Sweat and Whiskey: What Killing the Car Industry Means for Adelaide’s...
This essay was written as part of the Kill Your Darlings Copyright Agency Investigative Journalism Mentorship program, which was devised to help support emerging journalists. To download a PDF of the...
View ArticleTrivial Pursuits: The media and ‘women’s interests’
I can remember the first time I ever met a Serious Journalist. I was a few years younger than I am now, and he was much older and very intimidating. I recognised his face from the byline above dozens...
View ArticleWhere Are the Naked People?
Credit Lady Godiva as the first naked activist to expose herself in public. As the eleventh-century legend goes, she felt pity for the impoverished people of Coventry and asked her husband, Leofric,...
View ArticleTelling Stories: Women screenwriters and the obligation to represent
Screenwriter, actor and director Greta Gerwig has spoken about the ‘straitjacket’ of likability imposed on women. Photo: Victoria Will Last month, at a fundraiser for Women In Film, Transparent creator...
View ArticleParallel Lanes: On fear, citizenship and accountability
A few weeks ago, I finished a night shift at Fox Studios, and called a taxi to take me home. It was cold out in the dark behind Stage 6, the occasional spotlight only serving to emphasise the...
View ArticleRight Place, Right Time: How the Melbourne Voice shuts writers out
If every city has its own unique culture, it’s also true that most people who grow up in that culture internalise the ideas that are considered important within that particular time and space....
View ArticleRenewing the Streets: Newcastle’s DIY photography revival
Photo credit: Mark Wojcik At the Volume: Another Art Book Fair in Sydney last month – a kind of glorified zine fair for the high art crowd – I stumbled across a project spread across a single table...
View ArticleGut Feel: Hosier Lane and the gentrification of street art
Hosier Lane. Flickr: ‘SalTheColourGeek.’ In November last year, Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle took to the media to decry the state of Melbourne’s Hosier Lane. According to Doyle, the works in...
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