Ambivalent hope
Melody Ellis
Reflections on hope.
Category: Australasia
Activist imagery
John Mateer
In a new banner by Taring Padi and Noongar artists, the Noongar figures and Australian fauna and flora integrate with images from an rebellious Indonesian proletarian class in a bold synthesis, creating a dream-like, political logic.
Goodbye to Cousin Merle
Jeremy Mair
Cousin Merle’s abscission from the family tree didn’t elicit any great feeling on my part, but the fact that there was no Chinese blood in the family was a little more complicated.
Elsewhere than Here
Brandon K. Liew and Daryl Lim Wei Jie 林伟杰
Poetry from Brandon K. Liew and Daryl Lim Wei Jie 林伟杰
Jade, Pine, Orchid, Kidney
Robert Wood
Eileen Chong’s poetry defies national categories, making its way into cracks and crevices like an orchid in cement, grown beautiful and a little wild.
The third dog / Space bound
Peta Murray and Maggie Tiojakin
“Einstein saw space and time as an intrinsically linked existence: how the passing of time is relative to the space we inhabit, which is to say, how we find meaning in our lives depends greatly on where we stand.”
By the canal
Linda Collins and Noelle Q. de Jesus
A piece of flash fiction by Linda Collins and Noelle Q. de Jesus. Commissioned as part of a collaboration between RMIT’s nonfiction/lab and Mekong Review.
A tale of two homes
Emma Pei Yin
The China-Australian Migration Corridor delves deep into historical foundations, contemporary trends and policy considerations related to movement between China and Australia.
Silos / Renga
Mariyam Haider and Emilie Collyer
A renga by Mariyam Haider and Emilie Collyer. Commissioned as part of a collaboration between RMIT’s nonfiction/lab and Mekong Review.
The bookseller’s revolution
Emma Pei Yin
As a lead bookseller at The Book Cow, I’m not merely selling pages filled with words; I’m at the crossroads where books meet real life.
Righting wrongs
Patrick Poon
Personal testimonies are always more powerful than hypothetical discussions, and Elaine Pearson’s extensive experience in investigating human rights abuses and advocating for positive changes serves as a practitioner’s handbook.
The reluctant activist
Minh Bui Jones
An Australian activist takes on China
Our patch
Greg Lockhart
Foreign policy and the making of Australia
Thirsty country
Sam Vincent
Rain on my farm
Coal r us
Robert Templer
What if Australia took the Nordic model?
Fear and greed
Michael Reilly
Australia changes its mind on China
A realist’s lament
Michael Reilly
For China and Australia, a question of values
Coal devotion
Jeff Sparrow
Climate change scepticism is entrenched in Australia
A future darkly
Anna MacDonald
Patrick Allington’s dystopian novel speaks for our times
Missing on stage
Mina Bui Jones
A world music festival in Australia where Southeast Asian performers are rarely seen
Burning denial
Jeff Sparrow
Australia’s summer from hell
War myths
Alexander Wells
A new Australian film misses the mark
Paper estate
Jeff Sparrow
Shaping Australia’s print landscape
Coming out
Aimee Chanthadavong
Australia’s Sweatshop movement
Hell down under
Allan Patience
An indictment of Australia’s cruelty to asylum seekers
Triptych
Patrick Allington
Fiction from Sreedhevi Iyer, Tiffany Tsao and Intan Paramaditha
Bard from Bunyah
Michael Freeman
The poems of the late Les Murray (1938-2019)
Right history
Alexander Wells
A free-market fairy tale for the faithful
Ocean of history
John Burgess
A new study questions whether Australian Aborigines were isolated after their arrival 40,000 years ago.