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Millennials Strike Back

Millennials are making their mark on a world that is profoundly different to the one their parents knew.

Millennials, those born in the final decades of the twentieth century, have had bad press for a long time. Now they are fighting back as they come of age in a world radically changed from that experienced by previous generations.

Even the oldest were still in primary school when the Soviet Union collapsed, when deregulation swept...

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Hotel Homeless
– Jim Hearn

'What becomes apparent very quickly when you don't have a roof over your head is that your body continues to function in the same way it did when you had a place to call home. Having a body can be a real drag.'

With so much discussion taking place around the future of housing in Australia, it is a good opportunity to revisit Jim Hearn’s essay ‘Hotel Homeless’, published in Griffith Review 44: Cultural Solutions. Hearn explores his own experience of homelessness and the accompanying hopelessness that so often results. Jim Hearn is a recipient of a 2017 Griffith Review Fellowship.

NAIDOC Week 2017

‘Not so easy’
– Kim Scott

Much can be said of the healing and improved social outcomes for Aboriginal people that can result from reconnection to a pre-colonial cultural heritage. But there may also be the possibility of a wider social transformation in such programs.

To celebrate NAIDOC Week 2017 (2–9 July), Griffith Review is proud to showcase some the pieces we have published in past editions that relate to this year’s theme, ‘Our languages matter’.

In Griffith Review 47: Looking West, Kim Scott reflects on his involvement with the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project – a project that recorded and translated oral stories in the Noongar language, and returned them to the regions they originated from.

NAIDOC Week 2017

‘Wadu Matyidi’ – Buck McKenzie and Eva Hornung

Wadu matyidi, yakartiapinha – Virdianha, Warrikanha, Unaanha – yarnduiranggadna ardla nhirringa…

To celebrate NAIDOC Week 2017 (2–9 July), Griffith Review is proud to showcase some the pieces we have published in past editions that relate to this year’s theme, ‘Our languages matter’.

In Griffith Review 55: State of Hope, Eva Hornung and the late Buck McKenzie tell a new story in the Adnyamathanha language, with the help of artwork from Vishus Productions. ‘My dream in learning [the Adnyamathanha language],’ Hornung reflects, ‘and helping to make these books, was to see all South Australian school children study it and, in doing so, truly begin to know their own country.’

NAIDOC Week 2017

‘The great upmapping project of 2016′ – Tony Birch

Birth is never without violence. And settlement would be a breach birth. The Governor of the new colony was a conjurer of tricks. The man dazzled settlers and natives alike with the lie of terra nullius, a foreign tongue found in a book of mythology.

To celebrate NAIDOC Week 2017 (2–9 July), Griffith Review is proud to showcase some the pieces we have published in past editions that relate to this year’s theme, ‘Our languages matter’.

In Griffith Review 52: Imagining the Future, Tony Birch weaves a visionary re-imagining of Melbourne pre- and post-European settlement.