The Spencer Street End

Setting the Stage

Why the Victorian Treaty is not just a political moment, but a moral and literary one.

May 8 • Daniel James

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Hair is weird

In the team meeting, when the human was being built, were they serving whiskey?

May 3 • Jacinta Parsons

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April 2026

Killing Hope - The Pledge to Tear Up Treaty

How the colonial mindset is alive and well in the lead up to the Victorian election.

Apr 24 • Daniel James

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Back to the Future

Is this why living feels so hard?

Apr 19 • Jacinta Parsons

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Mateship and Aussie Values

How the pending Ben Roberts-Smith trial has opened a new front in the culture wars.

Apr 10 • Daniel James

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Just Say 'No'

Or, just say an 'unqualified probably'?

Apr 3 • Jacinta Parsons

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March 2026

Thirty Years of Hansonism

How the politics of resentment keep finding new excuses.

Mar 27 • Daniel James

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‘Coooeeeeee.’

The call of the wild

Mar 20 • Jacinta Parsons

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On Time

Why remembering matters in an age that encourages forgetting.

Mar 13 • Daniel James

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This article is late

But don't come at me about my failings during International Women's Day week/month.

Mar 9 • Jacinta Parsons

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The Deaths of the Schoolgirls of Minab

What modern war does to language, and to accountability.

Mar 2 • Daniel James

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February 2026

The Grammar of Comfort

Thirty years on, the mainstream John Howard defined continues to frame the nation’s limits.

Feb 27 • Daniel James

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