Eureka Street
08 November 2024. As house prices soar, half the nation finds itself locked out of the property market. In conversation with Eureka Street, Alan Kohler untangles the web of tax incentives, population pressures, and government policies fueling the housing crisis to discover why, despite public outcry, solutions remain frustratingly out of reach.
About Us - Eureka Street
Eureka Street is a publication of the Australian Jesuits. It existed as a monthly, and briefly bi-monthly, print magazine for 16 years, commencing in March 1991. Today it exists as a vibrant online journal of analysis, commentary and reflection on current issues in the worlds of politics, religion and culture. It aims to participate in public discussion and …
The Booker Prize and why it matters - eurekastreet.com.au
1 day ago · The man is Percival Everett, author of James, a re-telling of Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In Everett’s version the runaway slave whose name is Jim, becomes a thoughtful, well-read man called James. Everett himself has slave ancestry, has been writing fiction for 40 years and is Distinguished Professor of English ...
Eureka Street person of the year 2023
20 December 2023. Kerry Murphy. 19 December 2023. To close the year for Eureka Street, the editorial team wanted to nominate who we considered to be the Eureka Street ‘person of the year’ based on this year's newsmakers. By David Halliday, Michael McVeigh, Laura Kings, Michele Frankeni, Andrew Hamilton, Julian Butler,
Reshaping Remembrance
3 days ago · Remembrance Day is the ideal time to recall the worldwide toll – the 100 million dead human beings – who perished in the mass conflicts of the 20 th century. Separately, on Anzac Day we remember those 100,000 Australians who fought, served and died. Cultural memory matters, but often it’s only now, generations later, when it emerges.
Race Mathews: A Life in Politics
6 days ago · Iola Mathews herself shared in Race’s political campaigns and brings to the book the insights gained from her own involvement in movements for women’s equality. She quotes liberally from Race’s own account of significant episodes in his life in a book whose structure is chronological but also thematic. This involves some repetition which ...
Eureka Street person of the year
Dec 21, 2022 · Andrew Hamilton, Consulting editor of Eureka Street. Cassius Turley. My person of the year is a young Noongar-Yamatji man of great potential never realised. Cassius Turley died at the age of 15 in Perth, pursued and killed by a passer-by. The number of people around Australia who gathered to mourn him showed that his death had national ...
Introducing: 40 Days with Eureka Street
Looking for something to nourish the mind and spirit this Lent? Eureka Street, published by Jesuit Communications, is offering 40 days of Eureka Street Plus free for all new subscribers. From now until Easter, new subscribers will get free trial access to all the site’s paywalled content including long essays, interviews, book reviews, editorials and the site’s extensive archives, all free ...
Eureka Street Plus
05 July 2022. Eureka Street Plus is a place where respectful in-depth public conversation can take place in the grey area between polarities; a place to air differing perspectives, thoughts and concerns without fear of reprisals. It’s about making space to further enable the productive conversations necessary for an engaged, functioning society.
Vol 34 No 22 - Eureka Street
08 November 2024. As house prices soar, half the nation finds itself locked out of the property market. In conversation with Eureka Street, Alan Kohler untangles the web of tax incentives, population pressures, and government policies fueling the housing crisis to discover why, despite public outcry, solutions remain frustratingly out of reach.