Honi Soit, Author at Honi Soit

Creative //

Views from the club dancefloor

When lads, weirdos, ex-ravers and metalheads meet.

February 18, 2020 Robbie Mason

Analysis //

Will the history wars ever end?

Bruce Pascoe, Andrew Bolt and the history wars.

January 29, 2020 Robbie Mason

Analysis //

Wooden Ships and Iron Men: Race and Violence on the Beach Frontier

Maritime history without rose-tinted glasses. (Part 2 of 2.)

January 28, 2020 Robbie Mason

Analysis //

Mimicry and Memory: Aboriginal and Māori Seafarers during the Age of Sail

Cultural entanglements, commemoration and the Tasman Sea. (Part 1 of 2.)

January 24, 2020 Robbie Mason

Three artworks, one is of half a hollow human head with a tab of LSD on top of it exploding into rainbow coloured patterns. On either side of this are smaller but similar patterns of rainbow colour.

Features // Mental Health Research

Medicalising Psychedelics: Alternative approaches to mental health care in Australia

Antidepressants, psychedelics and the neoliberal infiltration of mental health

August 13, 2019 Robbie Mason

Image: Alley way from a hardcore event, bathed in a blue light.

Culture // Sydney Music Scene

Hardcore Will Never Die?

Waiting for Sydney's gabber renaissance

June 12, 2019 Robbie Mason

Photograph of buildings of the Wasser burnt.

Analysis // ANZAC Day

The “Battle of the Wasser”: A Footnote in History?

Historical honesty is crucial on days of national commemoration

April 25, 2019 Robbie Mason

Analysis // Sydney Music

Rave against the machine: Sydney’s DIY party scene

The besieged rave scene gets a voice

February 27, 2019 Robbie Mason

Bungaree, dressed in colonial clothes, stands in front of the Endeavour ship.

Perspective // Australian History

Scott Morrison’s Endeavour voyage politicises Australian history

Scott Morrison’s $6.7 million Endeavour tour is not only guilty of historical inaccuracy, it erases the role of Aboriginal individuals in early colonial Australia.

January 24, 2019 Robbie Mason