Helen Razer
Writer and broadcaster @HelenRazer
Helen Razer is a writer whose work appears in The Saturday Paper, Daily Review, SBS Online and Frankie. She has previously worked as a columnist for The Age and The Australian.
We assign the value of meaning to everything, thereby making it valueless. We want to believe that solutions are before us, but they aren't, and just by declaring and debating whether something matters, we make sure it doesn't.
Tony Abbott does have a moral reason for refugee cruelty. But it's not a question of morals -- it's a simple banal evil.
We should quit expecting the unlikely convergence of great talent with great moral courage. Plus, what's so wrong with bubbling?
Do you hate freedom or do you hate brown people? These were the choices on offer -- but it's a false dichotomy, and you can reject both terms.
Let's really put an end to the age of entitlement and make media barons accountable for their business failures, rather than legislating their right to steal our right to choice.
You think Ricky Muir came out of that interview looking bad? Think again. Willesee's interview was a wake for late modernism, with politics and journalism both emerging distinctly tarnished.
So all you progressives love Malcolm Turnbull. Why, when he's destroying the NBN and represents the ruling class?
Clive James has had some silly, nonsensical and flat-out wrong opinions over his long career. But his writing can still ignite passion in any breast, be it adolescent or middle-aged.
Students are taking to the streets with home-made signs and jostling former politicians at uni like it's 1969. Someone has to let these kids know that the old forms of protest have been kaput for some time.
We love the narrative that blames a current cultural ill (loose morals, video games, a controversial book, misogyny) for random acts of inexplicable horror. But this narrative is completely wrong.
