Writer
Stephen Alomes
Adjunct Professor Stephen Alomes (RMIT University) is a social researcher investigating power and powerlessness and contemporary populism. A member of medical advisory committees, in 2020 he presented on patient empowerment at the University of Tasmania clinical reform conference. His poetry collection recording everyday experience during the pandemic, Our Pandemic Zeitgeist (Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide) appeared in late 2020. He is also the author of Australian Football T<em>he People’s Game 1958-2058,</em> Walla Walla Press, Sydney, 2012 and <em>The AFL and the Movement Against Racial Vilification</em> in Gus Worby and Lester Irabinna Rigney, eds., <em>Sharing Spaces: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Responses to Story, Country and Policy,</em> API Network, Perth, 2006. <span class="font">‘Defining New Populisms: Causes, Characteristics and Trajectories (Australia and Beyond)’ in Ludwig Deringer and Liane Stroebel, eds., </span><i>International Discourses of Populism since 2015</i><span class="font">, Routledge, 2022</span>
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A fusion of discontents and democracy’s winter in Victoria
In Victoria, I came across she who had rhetorically embraced violence against the premier in the successful sniper’s image of red mist. A new dimension to analysing the discontented and their underlying social and economic situation. Continue reading »
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The AFL, racism and neoliberal corporatist sporting cultures
In the last days of September around the biggest event on the sporting calendar for most Australians, the AFL Grand Final, a leaked report raised the harrowing, but hidden, history of racism at the Hawthorn Football Club. Continue reading »
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Voices of insecurity … of kinds of felt dispossession … with implications for political disengagement… and sometimes populism
In 2022 we have seen moves away from major traditional parties, even more in France than in Australia. Continue reading »
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Omicron’s relentless spread demands a new response
The country is mired in a directionless mess and will continue to flounder without a new narrative and a policy response that emphasises protection. Continue reading »
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Vaccination plus: A safe ticket to the great Aussie summer
For true freedom this summer, we’ll need more than vaccinations alone — public health safety is always a story of multiples. Continue reading »
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How the Doherty model has been politically weaponised.
Political agendas have become more important than health policy in our current response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue reading »
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The virus and social cultures: A national plan beyond Doherty
Australia needs a new and realistic national plan for emerging from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue reading »
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Expert denialism: federal Covid advisory committee slow to accept airborne evidence
Why the official reluctance in Australia to recognise aerosol transmission? Continue reading »
