Despite mainstream economic investments and promises of developmental projects, the situation for young people and workers is not improving.
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We must turn to the strong Pacific activists who have been mobilising for decades against both nuclear proliferation and climate inaction, and critiquing these ideas of security. It is only through meaningful engagement with their voices that we can strengthen our regional ties and commit to a decolonised and feminist future.
I hope these perspectives can make you stop and think more often about where we live, why our home is the way it is, and what we can do about that.
We’re falling through the cracks rapidly — and the oncoming safety net still isn’t big enough to catch us all.
Where there’s a will there’s a way, and where there’s a pub there’s a railway.
Whilst people may reach for an Arnott’s Kingston, or a Scotch Finger, I’ll always be reaching for a Ginger Nut.
Even though increased ties and political understanding with Indonesia is essential, it must not come at the cost of a critical stance towards Indonesian and Prabowo’s human rights record.
Place and history are intimately intertwined. Without an understanding of place, history becomes a fuzzy abstract.
Regional trains, meanwhile, slice directly through the countryside and the intervening settlements, for which they provide a crucial service. They do this without the comfort-sacrificing drawbacks of either motor cars or plane travel, nor the emissions of either.
It is this tension, marked by the relations between disadvantaged Indigenous characters and the quietly caring Hurley, that creates this liminal sensation, this incredible depiction of the loss, the listlessness, the thwarted hopes, the limbo of Indigenous people in Australia today.
