Arts

Politics & Society
Opinion
Homophobia in AFL is not an isolated incident. It’s time we stopped treating it that way
Focusing on single acts of bigotry releases institutions, like the AFL, of any responsibility and ensures ongoing homophobia and racism in football

Arts & Culture
Analysis
What makes a short story great?
The best stories crackle with a kind of electricity, but why they grab us can be hard to articulate. A new podcast is trying to find the answer

Politics & Society
Opinion
‘Just two men meeting for reasons that have little to do with ending a war’
Although Trump says Putin will face “very severe consequences” if no Ukraine truce is agreed, it’s unlikely the meeting will result in decisive agreement

Politics & Society
Book extract
‘Finding an Indigenous voice’
The second volume of the truth-telling initiative, Dhoombak Goobgoowana, shares the steps, and missteps, on the road to finding an Indigenous Voice at the University of Melbourne

Politics & Society
Book extract
‘The field of Indigenous Studies simply gets on with the job’
Indigenous Studies means becoming part of global conversations about the place of Indigenous knowledges and traditions in the world

Politics & Society
Analysis
Tech multinationals are saying ‘goodbye globalism, hello geopolitics’
In a fractured global economy, geopolitics now shapes how multinationals operate and compete

Arts & Culture
Book extract
Taylor Swift is filling a ‘blank space’ in academic research
A new book explores how Swift studies is bringing the cultural phenomena of Taylor Swift into academia

Arts & Culture
Analysis
Friendship as a radical act
Engaging in friendship can be an act of resistance, where we choose to create worlds together, instead of pursuing self-interest

Politics & Society
Opinion
The changing nature of oligarchy in Indonesia
The oligarchic spectrum in Indonesia shows how economic power is translated into political dynastic power