Welcome to Eureka Street

back to site

Keywords: Train

  • AUSTRALIA

    The spirituality of KFC

    • Michael McGirr
    • 22 November 2024
    3 Comments

    There’s this other place that is neither heaven nor earth but which you might find in the car park of the third busiest KFC in Melbourne, waiting for your son to finish his shift. A bin beside the car is overflowing with all the packaging that comes with fast food, not to mention the remains of poor dead chooks whose life it is hard to imagine. 

    READ MORE
  • AUSTRALIA

    A house divided: In conversation with Alan Kohler

    • David Halliday
    • 08 November 2024

    As house prices soar, half the nation finds itself locked out of the property market. In conversation with Eureka Street, Alan Kohler untangles the web of tax incentives, population pressures, and government policies fueling the housing crisis to discover why, despite public outcry, solutions remain frustratingly out of reach.

    READ MORE
  • AUSTRALIA

    Priced out of parenthood: How Australia's housing crisis is lowering the birthrate

    • David James
    • 24 October 2024
    3 Comments

    Soaring property prices and declining fertility rates are entwined in a feedback loop, threatening long-term economic stagnation. As younger Australians are priced out of the market, many are delaying or forgoing parenthood, leading to an increasingly divided and unsustainable society.

    READ MORE
  • AUSTRALIA

    300 Australians that no one wants

    • John Schumann
    • 23 October 2024
    2 Comments

      There are approximately 300 Australians like Will currently held in forensic disability facilities, hospitals, mental health facilities, the prison system and providers of last resort. After two decades of seclusion, his story reveals a broken system where lives deteriorate, not improve, despite efforts for reform.

    READ MORE
  • AUSTRALIA

    Finding gratitude in winter's long shadow

    • Barry Gittins
    • 16 October 2024
    1 Comment

    As winter’s chill stubbornly lingers and spring arrives in fits and starts, the weight of the long cold months still presses on many of us. Yet in the midst of this darkness, thinkers like Carl Jung remind us of the power of gratitude to shift our perspective.

    READ MORE
  • AUSTRALIA

    Can Labor survive the inflation backlash?

    • Joe Zabar
    • 17 September 2024
    2 Comments

    As Australia heads toward the 2024 federal election, voters are grappling with soaring costs of living, stagnant wages, and weak GDP growth. Inflation is easing but prices remain stubbornly high. Will the Albanese government’s strategies to combat inflation satisfy an increasingly strained electorate?

    READ MORE
  • RELIGION

    I am pilgrim

    • Ann Rennie
    • 13 September 2024
    2 Comments

    People visit graves and castles, libraries and mansions, battlefields and places of historical significance to feel a little of the lives of others, to pay homage, to make that human connection. We make secular pilgrimages to places that we have dreamt about or read in books or seen on screen. Wherever we go, these are ultimately visits to places within.  

    READ MORE
  • ECONOMICS

    Australia’s property boom is splitting society in half

    • David James
    • 10 September 2024
    2 Comments

    As continued high interest rates and stagnant incomes put a strain on households, leading more Australians give up on the dream of home ownership, government attempts to manage both the cost of living crisis and the housing crisis may be doing too little too late. 

    READ MORE
  • INTERNATIONAL

    Neither here nor there

    • Gillian Bouras
    • 21 August 2024
    6 Comments

    In an uncertain world, the one certainty is that of change. Much like David Malouf’s idea that we are all exiles, even those of us who never leave home, for this is the effect that the passing of time has: familiar worlds become strange no matter where we are.

    READ MORE
  • AUSTRALIA

    A history of violence

    • Barry Gittins
    • 20 August 2024
    3 Comments

    Emma's story offers an unflinching glimpse into the brutality of colonial Australia. While it’s worth celebrating the undeniable social progress made since Emma braved the voyage to Australia, we must resist the temptation to see our history of violence as consigned to the past.

    READ MORE
  • INTERNATIONAL

    Costly pageantry: The Olympics and the blank cheque syndrome

    • Binoy Kampmark
    • 05 August 2024

    The pain cities endure while hosting large sporting events like the Olympics has proved considerable. They exert a remarkable strain on budgets, disrupt commerce, compromise valuable real estate, inflict environmental harm, and often result in evictions and displacements of vulnerable residents. 

    READ MORE
  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Strangers on a train

    • Julie Perrin
    • 01 August 2024
    2 Comments

    A commuter's mundane journey turns surreal as eccentric passengers create an impromptu human orchestra. From football fanatics and excited teens to brooding tradies, this slice-of-life drama reveals the hidden beauty in everyday encounters.

    READ MORE
Join the conversation. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter  Subscribe