Ideas for a brighter future for all

Society and culture

Examining the social, geographical and historical influences on societies

Birds

Escape rooms

Griffith Review 74: Escape Routes plots the course of our daydreams, our transformations and our jailbreaks. It takes us across borders and through open minds to places once out of reach, lighting out for the territory to access new worlds.

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Utopia

Reframing the thought ­experiment

There’s no place like utopia. Coined by Sir Thomas More in the sixteenth century, the word ‘utopia’ is a play on the Greek for ‘no place’ and ‘good place’. But is an ideal society unattainable – or optimal?

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Melbourne Mural

What COVID-19 teaches us about resilience

Last year I found my dry cleaner sewing by the light of a single lamp in his darkened store, in a scene reminiscent of an 18th-century still-life oil painting. Only in that moment did I fully grasp the meaning of the words “the economic cost of COVID-19”.

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Warrumbungle Ranges, Coonabarabran

Leaving Coonabarabran

Susan Harris Rimmer on her home town Coonabarabran, she asks “will we look back on those families who gave up on Coona as part of the first waves of forced relocation that will happen due to climate change in Australia? Do people realise climate mobility issues are already happening?

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Birds

Escape rooms

Griffith Review 74: Escape Routes plots the course of our daydreams, our transformations and our jailbreaks. It takes us across borders and through open minds to places once out of reach, lighting out for the territory to access new worlds.

Read more
Utopia

Reframing the thought ­experiment

There’s no place like utopia. Coined by Sir Thomas More in the sixteenth century, the word ‘utopia’ is a play on the Greek for ‘no place’ and ‘good place’. But is an ideal society unattainable – or optimal?

Read more
Melbourne Mural

What COVID-19 teaches us about resilience

Last year I found my dry cleaner sewing by the light of a single lamp in his darkened store, in a scene reminiscent of an 18th-century still-life oil painting. Only in that moment did I fully grasp the meaning of the words “the economic cost of COVID-19”.

Read more
Warrumbungle Ranges, Coonabarabran

Leaving Coonabarabran

Susan Harris Rimmer on her home town Coonabarabran, she asks “will we look back on those families who gave up on Coona as part of the first waves of forced relocation that will happen due to climate change in Australia? Do people realise climate mobility issues are already happening?

Read more
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