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Lucas Grainger-Brown

Author: lagraingerbrown

A compulsive word nerd, I have tried and failed to live without writing. There is something spiritual in text, read or unread, locked in an attic or pasted on a billboard.

Zamby, zombi, zombie

Posted on June 3, 2022June 3, 2022 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Essay
Topic: Comparing the Haitian and French Revolutions

The sound and fury of Britain’s election

Posted on December 13, 2019December 13, 2019 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Commentary
Topic: UK 2019 general election predictions

We Three Hundred

Posted on May 25, 2019May 25, 2019 by lagraingerbrown

2018 Calibre Prize winning essay ‘We Three Hundred’

Friend simulation for the precariat

Posted on September 16, 2018September 16, 2018 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Essay
Topic: Online streamers and their socioeconomic purpose

Why Australian soldiering needs to step out of its time warp

Posted on April 29, 2018April 29, 2018 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Commentary
Topic: The gulf between military training and 21stC Australia

Genocide Tourist

Posted on April 24, 2018April 24, 2018 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Essay
Topic: Visiting landmarks of the Cambodian genocide

The Spiders Needn’t Win

Posted on November 7, 2017November 7, 2017 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Short story
Topic: Urban homeliness

What will the British election mean for Brexit?

Posted on June 11, 2017April 24, 2018 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Commentary
Topic: UK 2017 general election predictions

Hope for the body

Posted on October 21, 2016April 10, 2018 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Essay
Topic: The physical experiences of military training

Catch the shadow

Posted on September 7, 2016March 20, 2020 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Short story
Topic: Witnessing a drowning

‘Death of a refugee’: Reporting deaths in immigration detention

Posted on August 31, 2016November 7, 2017 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Commentary
Topic: Reporting on Australian offshore detention

Failed to Fragile to Non-existent: The endangerment of Australian foreign policy

Posted on June 21, 2016November 7, 2017 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Essay
Topic: The grab-bag doctrine behind Australian aid

The Sanders Revolution after New York and hopeful signs in the global Left

Posted on May 14, 2016November 7, 2017 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Commentary
Topic: Bernie Sanders’ silver lining

The Dirty Establishment War To Stop Bernie Sanders

Posted on April 18, 2016November 7, 2017 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Commentary
Topic: Biased media coverage in the ’16 Presidential election

Revolution in New Hampshire and Australia’s Forgotten People

Posted on February 14, 2016November 7, 2017 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Commentary
Topic: The two-party system and the 21st century

Rorschach

Posted on January 24, 2016November 7, 2017 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Short story
Topic: Reunited by death

Bedevilled (Idle hands and the endless economy)

Posted on November 20, 2015November 7, 2017 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Essay
Topic: Work and morality

Freedom Fights Equality and Green Shoots of Democracy

Posted on November 8, 2015November 7, 2017 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Commentary
Topic: Ideology and parliament

Culture versus utopia: effectively answering ISIL propaganda

Posted on October 17, 2015November 7, 2017 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Commentary
Topic: Terrorism and democracy

Australian Republic: Disrupt the Constitution to enable social innovation

Posted on October 6, 2015November 7, 2017 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Commentary
Topic: The social case for republicanism

A way to fall

Posted on October 4, 2015November 7, 2017 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Poetry
Topic: Time and happiness

Dreamscape for infinite human worlds

Posted on September 21, 2015November 7, 2017 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Essay
Topic: The social potential of the Internet

Four hour pilgrim

Posted on September 6, 2015November 7, 2017 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Short fiction
Topic: Travelling between past and present

Forced borders: the fallacy of scientific government

Posted on August 30, 2015November 7, 2017 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Commentary
Topic: Operation ‘Fortitude’

By the sea, alone

Posted on August 27, 2015November 7, 2017 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Poetry
Topic: Shoreside by moonlight

My Moby

Posted on August 27, 2015November 7, 2017 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Poetry
Topic: Finitude

Seekers

Posted on August 27, 2015November 7, 2017 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Short fiction
Topic: Misfits en mass

The Royal Commission into Trade Unions and the limits of justice

Posted on August 26, 2015November 7, 2017 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Commentary
Topic: The possibility of politicised justice

The Eleventh Sun God

Posted on August 26, 2015November 7, 2017 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Short fiction
Topic: Vietnam vet watches moon landing

Numbers games: an argument for quotas

Posted on August 26, 2015November 7, 2017 by lagraingerbrown

Genre: Commentary
Topic: Parliamentary quotas

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