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Analogue Appreciation: Xmunashe

Make Yourself At Home — In an ever more digital, online world, we ask our favourite artists about their most cherished pieces of physical culture. Today, it’s elusive freeform explorer Xmunashe.

  • Music
  • xmunashe
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Afghanistan’s women’s football team are fighting to play

Scoring in exile — Having fled to Australia in the wake the Taliban takeover, a new women’s refugee team has been set up by FIFA. But still unable to take part in official tournaments, players are dreaming of full recognition.

  • Sport
  • Jessie Williams

Exploring the impact of colonialism on Australia’s Indigenous communities

New exhibition, ‘Under a Southern Star: Identity and Environment in Australian Photography’ interrogates the use of photography as a tool of objectification and subjugation.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

The Borders Bill is a violent solution to an imaginary crisis

Welcome refugees — Priti Patel’s Nationality and Borders Bill relies on falsehoods around the illegality of channel crossings and will only endanger refugees. We must resist the government’s scaremongering tactics, writes JIWC’s communications officer, Nadia Hasan.

  • Opinion
  • Nadia Hasan

The Borders Bill will replicate callous Australian policy

Broken systems — Senator Nick McKim of the Australian Greens and Benali Hamdache of the UK Green Party explain why Priti Patel’s new Immigration Bill will resemble the worst part’s of Australia policy, inflicting the same suffering, merely under a Union Jack.

  • Activism
  • Nick McKim and Benali Hamdache

The teens behind a landmark climate lawsuit

Futures before fossil — A group of teenagers from Australia are suing the government over a coal mine extension. Win or lose, it’ll make a profound difference across the world to similar cases fighting to make climate change a children's rights issue.

  • Activism
  • Lucia Osborne-Crowley

The aftermath of Australia’s devastating bushfires

What now? — This summer saw one of the most intense and destructive fire seasons in the country’s history. But once the gaze of global news departs, how does the community carry on?

  • Reportage
  • Alistair Klinkenberg

A teen's visual diary of the early-90s rave scene

Punching the Light — At 15, Simon Burstall made two discoveries that would change him forever: photography and raves. Now, having trawled through a trove of material from that time, the Australian has uncovered scenes from a subcultural oasis – and a turning point in his life.

  • Magazine
  • Cian Traynor

A tribute to South Australia’s west coast – a surf paradise

The Travel Diary — Photographer Thomas Ling shoots the surfers of the country’s west coast: one of the most harshly beautiful – and endangered – environments in Australia.

  • Surf
  • Thomas Ling

Life in the secluded suburbs of Australia

Utopian dream — In his new photo book, Wellard, Tim Palman spotlights Perth’s ‘private estates’ – developments that offer an artificial suburban lifestyle to their residents.

  • Photography
  • HUCK HQ

Life at the bottom of Australia's socio-economic ladder

In the shadows — Photographer David Maurice Smith draws on his previous career as a social worker to better understand the disenfranchised side of Australian life.

  • Culture
  • David Maurice Smith

The surf photographer living life in the impact zone

Pushing the limit — Russell Ord started putting himself between the waves to find his own space in the world of surf photography. Now, his fearless approach to life is being captured in a documentary.

  • Film
  • Biju Belinky

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