Dženana Vucic on the subtle and not-so-subtle Marxist symbolism in Sailor Moon, John Docker, a "non-theatre person" by his own admission on The New Theatre, Sarah Schwartz on prison healthcare as punishment and the killing of Veronica Nelson, a poignant short story on memory and displacement from Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini, Jeanine Leane's prize-winning poem, "Water under the bridge", and more.
The absence of a visible campaign against mass unemployment has had a profound impact on Australian politics. Union and left-wing engagement with unemployment has become an increasingly top-down largely technocratic affair devoid of grassroots participation. As a result, unemployment policy is increasingly understood as something that happens to workers.