is a professor at the University of Canberra’s faculty of business, government and law and the author of Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers.
I thought at first she might be drowning
she seemed to be floundering so,
but when I swam near she was speaking
and signalling with her hands,
so then, instead of drowning I thought
she was speaking on some kind of waterproof phone,
Sriwhana Spong’s solo exhibition HA HA HA at Monash University Museum of Art is a complex series of meditations on colonialism that refuse rote identity.
Outer Urban Projects, long known for its work amplifying marginalised voices, reflects a hidden history of women in public transport for its latest project, VIGIL.