
Jeff Sparrow
Jeff Sparrow is a Walkley award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster.
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The findings from the royal commission show why it matters so much to push back against those who would normalise hate
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Pauline Hanson says she wants to protect ‘academic free speech’. But you need a secure job to be outspoken
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The defence of basic liberties matters amid the pandemic because the precedents being set now will have implications long into the future
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Any serious response to the virus must impinge on the economy. Market ideologues find this very difficult to accept
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Ripping up drains and releasing rats may not sound like popular moves, but through urban ecology projects, volunteers and locals are building a new harmony with nature
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The consequences of market policies have done to campuses what they have done everywhere else they’ve been unleashed
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We were urged to welcome precarity as a liberation from the old industrial order. Now the chickens are coming home to roost
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Manning’s publisher locked him in his apartment until he finished one of the strangest, most compelling books from the first world war
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The focus has been on Captain Cook and Chris Lilley but an incalculably more important obliteration of treasures from deep time is taking place
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Many of us regard the prospect of returning to a centralised workplace with a mixture of ambivalence and dread
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The link between recession and longevity should encourage us to think about the logic of our economy
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If there is an economic alternative now, there was one before – and we are all suffering from the failure to take it
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Capitalism must expand or lapse into crisis. But perpetual growth pits humanity against nature
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From underground caves to Antarctic huts, living in Australia’s ultra-historic buildings has its bonuses – and drawbacks
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Exposing misbehaviour is one thing. Punishing it depends on rebuilding a civil society long fractured by neoliberalism
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Tourism has slowed across the state this summer, but regional businesses are ready for holidaymakers and there is plenty to see and do
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From toys to cake tins and tools, libraries are taking service to their communities well beyond books
Australian conservatives go to extraordinary lengths to deny the reality of rightwing extremism