Ideas.

Social cohesion.

16 pieces of work

Australia measures multiculturalism by who is present. The harder question is what happens between people once they are, and whether our institutions, broadcasters and politics still build anything shared.

• EssayThink Talks: Giving good ideas a bigger stage
• EssayWe Don't Need More Conversations. We Need Better Ways of Thinking Together.
• EssayThe Language We Forget In
• EssayThe Socceroos Know How Belonging Works.
• EssayLong Before the Final Whistle, SBS Scored for Australia
• EssayUnpopular Opinion: The Price of Speaking Your Mind
• EssayWhat we lost when we imported America's race conversation
• EssayAfter Bondi, Distance No Longer Holds
• EssayWhat’s in a Name? Everything White Australia Still Can’t Say
• EpisodeAfter Bondi, Distance No Longer Holds
• VideoThink Greek
• VideoThink Voice
• VideoThink Social and Think Culture
• ProjectThink Social Cohesion National Summit
• ProjectThink
• Project#StayVisible, The Invisible Woman and Burning Issue

Social enterprise.

9 pieces of work

Who actually gets paid to deliver social change, and why funding announced for enterprises so often ends up somewhere else.

• EssayThe $21 billion sector locked out of delivering its own funding
• EssayWhen the Dance Floor Turns Toxic: The Failings of Australia’s NFP Sector
• VideoAutistic Pride Day
• VideoThink Social and Think Culture
• ProjectPride in Business Australia
• ProjectThink
• Project#StayVisible, The Invisible Woman and Burning Issue
• ProjectAurum Foundation
• ProjectJust Gold

Autistic pride.

13 pieces of work

The question has moved on from awareness. Autism is visible everywhere and the systems have barely changed. This thread is about what it would take to make them change, and who gets to design them.

• EssayNot Every Struggle Announces Itself with a Cyclops
• EssayAlbanese asked the right question on AI. Here's the next one.
• EssayThe cry that didn't come
• EssayYou Can't Cut Your Way Out of a Broken System
• EssayAutism is trending. I am done waiting.
• EssayNothing About Autism Is Mild
• EssayAutistic Pride Day Didn’t Need Reinventing. It Needed Infrastructure—and We Built It
• EssayAutistic People Aren’t Your Political Scapegoats: A Letter to Australia
• EssaySeparating Autism from Personality: Lessons from Elon Musk
• EssayNavigating Senior Roles as an Autistic Leader: 5 Steps to Prevent Bullying, Mobbing, and Unsafe Workplaces
• VideoAutistic Pride Day
• ProjectAutistic Pride Day
• ProjectAurum Foundation

Queer politics.

10 pieces of work

Pride has won visibility. This thread asks whether visibility has been mistaken for safety, and what happens to a movement when protest turns into institutions and certainty turns into culture.

• EssayMardi Gras Doesn’t Have a People Problem. It Has a Governance Problem.
• EssayPride in a Hardening World: The Illusion of Stability
• EssayPride in a Hardening World: From Protest to Institution
• EssayPride in a Hardening World: The Cost of Moral Certainty
• EpisodePride in a Hardening World: The Cost of Moral Certainty
• EpisodePride in a Hardening World: From Protest to Institution
• EpisodePride in a Hardening World: The Illusion of Stability
• VideoThink Pride
• VideoThe Disruptive Rainbow
• ProjectPride in Business Australia

Greek identity.

8 pieces of work

Being Greek somewhere other than Greece: language, migration, memory, and the politics that change depending on which language they are spoken in.

• EssayI Want to Understand
• EssayThe Language We Forget In
• EssayThe Most Greek Thing in Nolan's Odyssey Is Homer
• EssayWhat we lost when we imported America's race conversation
• EssayWithin Range
• EssayWhat’s in a Name? Everything White Australia Still Can’t Say
• EpisodeWithin Range
• VideoThink Greek

Interculturalism.

7 pieces of work

Living alongside each other is not the same as living with each other. This thread is about what happens when cultures actually meet: language, names, stories, and what each community takes from the others.

• EssayThe Language We Forget In
• EssayThe Most Greek Thing in Nolan's Odyssey Is Homer
• EssayThe Socceroos Know How Belonging Works.
• EssayLong Before the Final Whistle, SBS Scored for Australia
• EssayUnpopular Opinion: The Price of Speaking Your Mind
• EssayWhat we lost when we imported America's race conversation
• EssayWhat’s in a Name? Everything White Australia Still Can’t Say

Public life.

18 pieces of work

Shared attention, broadcasting, elections, artificial intelligence, and who gets to be understood by the institutions that govern us.

• EssayThink Talks: Giving good ideas a bigger stage
• EssayWe Don't Need More Conversations. We Need Better Ways of Thinking Together.
• EssayAlbanese asked the right question on AI. Here's the next one.
• EssayLong Before the Final Whistle, SBS Scored for Australia
• EssayWithin Range
• EssayThe Liberal Party Did Not Lose Last Night. It Was Absorbed.
• EssayEquality Is Not a Moment. It Is a System.
• EssayDistance Is a Way of Thinking
• EssayNothing Resets at Midnight
• EssayAfter Bondi, Distance No Longer Holds
• EssayIn the Era of AI, Are We Still Thinking for Ourselves?
• EssayAutistic People Aren’t Your Political Scapegoats: A Letter to Australia
• EpisodeThe Liberal Party Didn't Lose Last Night. It Was Absorbed.
• EpisodeWithin Range
• EpisodeDistance Is a Way of Thinking
• EpisodeNothing Resets at Midnight
• EpisodeAfter Bondi, Distance No Longer Holds
• ProjectThink