How failed socialist utopia ties Australia to Paraguay World Cup opponents Australia and Paraguay have a unique connection through a bid to create a socialist utopia in the South American country, 130 years ago. AAP · Jun 24
Australia’s ‘inconvenient’ women writers blazed a trail through the 20th century In Inconvenient Women, Jacqueline Kent shines a spotlight on some of Australia’s most radical and influential writers. The Conversation · May 14, 2025
The great Australian election campaign quiz – week five We made it! YOU made it. But did you follow the hate media closely enough all the way to the end? The Guardian - AU · May 2, 2025
Hidden women of history: disabled Australian author Dorothy Cottrell was 'the Liane Moriarty of the Jazz Age' but is almost unheard of here In the late 1920s, poet Mary Gilmore – the woman on the A$10 note – declared she’d encountered only two instances of “genius” during her four decades in Australian literature. The first was a man who remains a household name: Henry Lawson, bush poet, author of iconic stories like The… The Conversation · Sep 19, 2023
'Flash Johnny' an outlaw till the end On the outskirts of Binalong is the crude bush grave of bushranger John Gilbert, marked with a dilapidated wooden cross and rudimentary bush rock headstone. The Canberra Times · Feb 24, 2023
Failed dreams of building 'New Australia' utopia in Paraguay jungle in 19th century Disenchanted with Australia in the 1890s, 500 people travelled to Paraguay in search of a better life, inspired by a radical socialist. But their plans for a tropical utopia, with strict rules about booze and sex, were "bound to fail". ABC News · Nov 27, 2022
Friday essay: How leftist, feminist poet Dame Mary Gilmore became 'Aunt Mary' in the PM's political narrative Dame Mary Gilmore died at 97 in late 1962, two and a half years before the birth of her great-great nephew, Scott John Morrison. The Conversation · Mar 10, 2022