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.
On 16 September 2021 Queensland became the fifth Australian state to pass voluntary assisted dying legislation. It will, however, be another 15 months before the new law
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?
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”.
We’ve entered 2021 having lived through unimaginable disruption and facing much more, we might well ask ourselves: Will COVID-19 cause a fundamental reimagining of our relationship with cities?
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?
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.
On 16 September 2021 Queensland became the fifth Australian state to pass voluntary assisted dying legislation. It will, however, be another 15 months before the new law
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?
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”.
We’ve entered 2021 having lived through unimaginable disruption and facing much more, we might well ask ourselves: Will COVID-19 cause a fundamental reimagining of our relationship with cities?
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?
