It has recently been an active time around the Australian National University, with voices pooled to fight for shared interests. We are fighting significant cuts to the School of C...

It is 2000, the year of the Sydney Olympics, when my parents decide to emigrate to Australia. Their grounds are valid — they are tired of high crime rates, class and racial tension...

The Three Graces  (2014) 120 cm x 90 cm, oil on canvas. The Three Graces is a work I hold very dear as it was painted in hom...

Hanan, from Egypt holding a sign reading: “I am with the uprising of women in the Arab world because my freedom is not a gift from anyone I was created free and I will take my righ...

1. The Dead Sea We float lazily in the thick and warm water, careful not to let our faces dip into the mineral concoction. The thick water restricts you from making sudden movemen...

Bricks of antiquity flaking mortar and dust of Adam’s bones wherein words encrust modern day ballads, cheap songs echo in search of a god to enslave and here it stays as times new ...

In the summer of 2011 I was consumed, as I suspect many fifteen year olds are, with the dual pursuits of Photoshopping images of celebrities to make them look like they were about ...

–  Gus McCubbing interviews Roxley Foley Due to the work of Gary Foley, the Foley name is synonymous throughout Australia with Indigenous rights activism. However, at a touch over ...

My interest in environmental conservation was inspired early on by an acquaintance with a pair of old-school activists. I was young and impressionable, and their infectious reveren...

The atmosphere is a community asset that belongs to all of us. The problem is that it is currently an open access resource—anyone can emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere with n...

Recent decades have seen a protracted attack and painstaking demolition of the traditional or ‘old’ university and an associated purging of academics. The rise of managers and ‘man...

“Knowledge for Sale” is one of a series of posters that address the corporatisation of universities. The posters are the res...

Yes, Let’s! Lets A-politicise all that became somehow political. Until the politics is taken out of politics And the underground of revolution becomes a gathering of silent bodies....

The red leaf on the left is covered with iron ore dust, the leaf on the right has been cleaned. When plants are covered with dust they can no longer photosythesise, meaning they sl...

“To demand justice […] involves every activist in a philosophical problem” – Judith Butler [1] Judith Butler, the American philosopher and gender theorist, has long intimated a dem...

I find myself walking through familiar scenes, scenes of utter devastation, trees with no leaves, corrugated iron that once were people’s rooves twisted and folded around trees, sc...

The Pinstriped Prison: How Overachievers Get Trapped in Corporate Jobs They Hate . By Lisa Pryor. Published 2008 by Picador Pan MacMillan Australia Pty Limited, 1 Market Street Syd...

I shot these photos  part of a first year photography assignment to interpret the idea of a fami...

this city does not care for me i am nothing to her cold indifference as if you never left as if i never learned but i have heard out there somewhere someone...

We are already on the way to a new climate normal. Whether that normal is one decided  by  us or  for  us is yet to be determined. We’re experiencing longer and hotter summers, and...

Roots provide the basis for life, yet we often take them for granted. This work provides a composition of the interdependent...

There is a paradox in left wing ideology. The left wing often supports underdogs in an effort to ensure equality. Yet the underdog always carries baggage that can be directly oppos...

A discussion of cultural appropriation often begets one of two extreme reactions. The first is a denial of any possibility of cultural exchange outside the original culture. The se...

Photograph by Johannes Dietschi...

Friday 01/04/2016 From: Mai Nguyen Subject: Being Asian in the West   Dear Dr Kim, I hope you don’t mind me emailing you out of the blue. Last year I took your course on “Cont...

Those who follow International Relations might have notice the curious rise of the “Thucydides Trap” as the vogue concept among leaders. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull ...

Modern identity politics is often denigrated; depicted as an irrational mass shouting defiantly about their experiences; a moment of politics that erases the good old fashion postu...

In 2015, former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, announced his support of Western Australian Premier Barnett’s plan to close nearly half of the state’s two hundred and seventy-four remo...

Within Hannah Arendt’s classic  New Yorker  essay, ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’ (1963) and subsequent book,  Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil  (1963), an alternat...

– Translated by Louis Klee...