The Cooperative'I am tossed around, around and around...'
factory workers are treated like machines. They are counted, rather than named. They are trained with documents that read like software programs, under the assumption that sufficient training will create high quality, repeatable products. This is...
Can we see the beauty, the desirability, of atypical, even disabled bodies?...To recognise and accept our own beauty requires us to break away from the shackles of our social conditioning.
'It reminds us that a violent state that has weaponised the physical and mental disintegration of ‘outsiders’ can also turn that violence within... We can glimpse the uncomfortable truth that citizenship – as the institution through which to be...
'In the hypercognitive western society, where intellect and reason are prized over love and relational connections, the fear of loss of cognition drives our response to dementia...'
'When you control the narrative, the context, the output, and what you are prepared to provide and not provide it has left the realm of service. You have a product...'
Between 1992 and 2012 there was a 15-fold increase in opioid dispensing in Australia
“She does not represent her lover; she presents her lover at the threshold of appearing and fading away. Painting lets her see—and show—this sacred threshold that opens all presence.”
‘The story that we may not know, watching from the safety of our couches, is that of Ameer (Bazzi). A father who will stop at nothing to see his family in the imagined safety of Australian borders, only to have his family, hopes and sanity ripped...
'Stateless reminds me that it is my government that deliberately makes the lives of asylum seekers more difficult than is needed. It reminds me that people who have sought asylum on our shores continue to be locked up in indefinite detention...'