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Articles by Liam Diviney
Labour and nostalgia in David Ireland’s Unknown Industrial Prisoner
My father grew up in Auburn when the backyards were large enough to turn outhouse sprints into marathons. Their home was a squat fibro Queenslander cut off at the knees to protect against Western Sydney heat waves rather than northern floods, and their neighbour was a feral plain fenced off at the road. ‘An army base,’ Grandpa told me, but even at a young age I suspected this was for the benefit of my imagination. For my grandparents, Sydney was a map of consumer-goods factories.
Learning from a low-SES home
On a Wednesday at midnight, an email hits my inbox. A year 12 student is apologising for not doing any online learning that week. She lost income during the lockdown and has taken up extra work in construction during the day to help pay the bills. She is not alone. Lockdowns are a necessary response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Besides, we won’t know their impacts on students’ education for years but the problems started a long time ago.
Learning from a low-SES home
On a Wednesday at midnight, an email hits my inbox. A year 12 student is apologising for not doing any online learning that week. She lost income during the lockdown and has taken up extra work in construction during the day to help pay the bills. She is not alone. Lockdowns are a necessary response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Besides, we won’t know their impacts on students’ education for years but the problems started a long time ago.
In triumph over the spirit lost: revisiting Seven Poor Men of Sydney
CW: depictions of mental illness and suicide Christina Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934) is one of the books that circle through my head whenever I think about dying. I drag myself to a park or library, book in hand, and only leave once I’m starving or bursting for a piss. It’s a strange novel in which pretentious wankers spout paragraphs while those around them nod along meaningfully.
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