• Publication date: 08/2020
  • Volume: 39
  • Issue: 3
Foreword

The global pandemic has forced many people to reorder their schedules, their priorities and their lives. Relationships with family, friends and colleagues have been altered and relationships with electronic media have intensified. Terms and words like: ‘lockdown’, ‘quarantine’, ‘physical distancing’, ‘mandatory isolation’, ‘state of emergency’ and ‘new normal’ have become common parlance. Governments, news media, policy makers, organisations and experts note that inaccurate and imprecise information may fuel conflict and panic, indeed even balanced ‘information’ can be read in problematic ways.

  Title Author(s)
Articles
Graham Maddox, Joanne Clarke, Viktoria Mueller, Christine Morley, Jessica Hart
5 Morality and Politics in a Democratic State Graham Maddox
12 The Irrationality of Grieving: Using critical reflection as a method to navigate and reconstruct deep grief Joanne Clarke
20 Blaming Individuals for Burnout: Developing critical practice responses to workplace stress Viktoria Mueller and Christine Morley
29 A Critically Reflective Approach to Veganism: Implications for Indigenous Rights and Green social work Jessica Hart
Short Stories
43 I am Brumby Alannah Mewes
Book Reviews
44 Wendy and Allan Scarfe 2020, A Mouthful of Petals: Three Years in an Indian Village Margaret Secombe
43 Fintan O’Toole 2018, Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain Michael Buky
Poetry
11 Psych out Owen Bullock
11 fraction Owen Bullock
18 Reality check Rachael Mead
18 Credo Rachael Mead
19 BURIED VERSE Dominic Symes
28 The Stranglebears Jennifer Compton
28 the poet Jennifer Compton
36 Hindsight is 2020, or The Budget Redux Toby Fitch
37 17 Great Dog Shits of Sydney Toby Fitch
39 Inception Paul Mitchell
42 What I loved about COVID-19 Alison Flett
42 Gods of liquid, gods of dust Alison Flett
45 Poem for a Sister Molly Murn
47 It’s you who are. What? A hummingbird Mark Anthony Cayanan
47 Persephone II Molly Murn
48 ENGLAND IN 2019 Dominic Symes
48 No longer was he young and raw though the error remained young and raw Mark Anthony Cayanan
48 Portrait of What Came Next (Or) Paul Mitchell
49 Marking Mark’s Discovery Paul Mitchell
Misc.
3 Introduction to Issue 3 2020: Critical Reflections Julie Matthews
38 Here We Go Again: The conspiracy theory freight train Richard Hil
40 Character Assassination as Journalism and Politics Stuart Rees