Doula by choice
Traditionally offering non-medical support to women during pregnancy, doulas are now providing care during abortions
In light of recent events
To combat COVID-19, a Japanese amusement park asked thrillseekers to “please scream inside your heart” — npr.org, July 2020
Oslo Davis is an illustrator and artist.
Storm in a port: The unfolding disaster of the Ruby Princess
The system breakdowns onboard and onshore that led to the docking of the coronavirus cruise ship
The art of class war
How decades after Murdoch and Packer destroyed the popular appeal of a game created for the masses, Peter V’landys is putting rugby league back on top
Julian of Norwich
Might challenges to neoliberal orthodoxies emerge from the pandemic, as challenges to Christian faith did after the Black Death?
‘The Worst Person in the World’
Renate Reinsve is exceptional in Joachim Trier’s satisfying Nordic rom-com
Family’s grief compounded by WA’s hard border
The awful predicament of a Melbourne family unable to bring home their son’s body shows the callousness of WA’s border policy
The best of 2021 on screen
This year may have been difficult to live through, but it produced an extraordinary crop of films
Raising the stakes: ‘Firebite’
Warwick Thornton’s magnificently pulpy Indigenous vampire-hunter drama leads the pack of December streaming highlights
