Guy Rundle
Correspondent-at-large
Guy Rundle is correspondent-at-large for Crikey. He's a former editor of Arena Magazine and contributes to a variety of publications in Australia and the United Kingdom.
There appears to be an imbalance built into this whole recognition process. It looks like a process that confers power on Indigenous people, but, in a curious way, it does the opposite.
Are Labor Right unwittingly writing the script for Fiona Richardson's successor to be a Green?
Born in New Orleans Ninth Ward, where he lived until Hurricane Katrina drove him out, Fats Domino left school at grade four, and worked as an iceman’s apprentice, until his uncle taught him piano. And that was that.
In the Weinstein scandal, the division of power and class is the real one.
People opposed to euthanasia are not the "emotional" ones. And, for the moment, it is impossible to justify voluntary assisted dying from a left perspective.
Gen X, Y and Z culture commanders have rallied the troops after a bunch of year 12 students expressed their dislike of a set text from their HSC exams. The horror!
Paradoxically, the one industry that won't be reformed is Hollywood.
When you imagine the level of rage that Tony Abbott must be living with, the "climate change is good" speech makes perfect sense.
Despite its diversions, the implementation of Obamacare was the right move, politically and policy-wise, which generated a class of people -- in their millions -- with something concrete to lose from its removal.
The public sphere, in this country and others, has been undermined by an unwillingness to defend it, even as the ground shifts beneath it.
