Culture
Glenn Dyer's TV Ratings
Glenn DyerAug 30, 2017
A faltering Hamish and Andy still manages to bring The House down.
Has file sharing really destroyed the film industry?
Bernard KeaneAug 30, 20175 Comments
The copyright industry warned us that filesharing would destroy cinema. Turns out, they were slightly off-beam.
Sloppy reporting on mental health study continues to fail women with mental ill health
Helen RazerAug 29, 201710 Comments
With a recent study about women's mental health problems sending the media into a tizzy, we need to understand when mental health problems are internally or externally engendered.
Aunty’s pain in the arts
David SalterAug 29, 20173 Comments
With the ABC announcing another review into its arts programming, David Salter explores the unfortunate complexities involved in the modern media marketplace.
Glenn Dyer's TV Ratings
Glenn DyerAug 29, 2017
The CBS interest in Channel Ten did nothing to improve their ratings.
Stan Grant and the monumental turn towards a living history
Aug 28, 20172 Comments
Stan Grant has been pilloried for suggesting that we modify our historical monuments to more accurately reflect our complicated past. But for some commentators Australia's Anglo-centric history is obstinately set in stone.
Rundle: Australian iconoclasm and the decaying edifices of the right
Guy RundleAug 28, 201712 Comments
Following the US movement toppling statues commemorating controversial historical figures, Guy Rundle, argues that our own Australian iconoclasm exposes the right's lack of imagination outside of their ossified Anglo-Celtic past.
Behind the scenes at one halal of an evening with Sam Dastyari and Gillian Triggs
Irfan YusufAug 25, 20172 Comments
Sam Dastyari and Gillian Triggs got together for an interesting conversation at the University of Sydney. Irfan Yusuf takes us through the highlights of the event.
Razer on Greenwald: make journalism muckraking again
Helen RazerAug 25, 20173 Comments
In her final piece on infamous journalist Glenn Greenwald, Helen Razer calls for a journalism that can elucidate systems rather than merely be a product of them.
Injured in a terrorist attack? Your travel insurance might not cover you
Aug 24, 201710 Comments
Travel insurance is a necessity for peace of mind, however you likely won't be covered if a victim of terrorism, explains Bhakthi Puvanenthiran.