Issy Golding

The internet has a clear monopoly over news media and has increasingly done so for the last decade. Enormous internet conglomerates, think social media giants and search engine masters, have power over news media, as well as financial power over media...

‘The machinery of discrimination that they assembled to fight us in 2017 was not destroyed in the armistice. They are still in place.’ – Eloise Brook (Queerstories, 2020)

In the midst of World War One, a war the Austro-Hungarian empire was destined to lose, an overhaul of the political systems of Eastern Europe was looming. As the empire fell, and Hungary became independent, the nationalism that was critical to the...

The beginning of the new decade, a country on fire, a world looks on and pours money in. And now, months following the end of the Black Summer, have the enormous philanthropic donations helped? A tweet of an 80-year-old woman who had her home burnt...

In 2013 AFL player Adam Goodes became the figurehead of the conversation about race and its role in modern Australia. Goodes, a proud Indigenous footballer for the Sydney Swans from 2012 to 2015, was considered one of the greats of the Australian...