Future Editions

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• Submissions should follow the guidelines set out in the ‘For Writers’ document.

Edition 36: What Is Australia For?

It is time to revive the debate about national identity. The clichés of old have long exceeded their
use-by date.

This is a trying time of global transition and uncertainty, for societies and for individuals. Yet it is also a time when Australia has remarkable advantages – advantages it must build on if the nation is to prosper.

Instead of seizing the moment, and forging an exciting new future, public discussion is mired in the past. Politics is no longer the art of the possible. Whingeing has replaced can-do.

What Is Australia For? will sketch out visionary ideas for the future, uncover neglected stories from the past, and provide an exciting forum for new voices to make their case.

Griffith REVIEW 37: Small World

Travel in the global village

Deadline for submissions: 13 April 2012
Publication date: August 2012
Early submissions encouraged

As a nation girt by sea, global travel has always been central to Australia's identity; from Indigenous people to the passengers of the First Fleet leaving their homeland for a destination beyond the limits of the known world. We are a nation of immigrants, tourists and expats who are more at home than ever in the global village where boundaries and borders start to shift for those who hold more than one identity
or passport.

Small World will explore the way we travel now – whether it's exploring wild, dangerous or weird places, or travelling not as passive tourists but by engaging. This edition will also consider how technology – from planes and television to social media and international banking – has changed our sense of the world.

This edition considers what we can learn from our own travels or flights of fancy and from those who reach our shores from other lands.