| Issue 18: January 2006 (Final Issue) |
 | Crash
[Media & Culture] In a movie review of Crash, we find that American racial schisms are actually not so far from home.
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| | This is the Final Issue of The Backbench
[Media & Culture] Sadly, this is the final issue of The Backbench!
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| | What Lurks Beneath
[Media & Culture] So we're multicultural, but that doesn't mean everything is hunky-dory. Living side-by-side comes with a boatload of issues.
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| Issue 16: August 2005 (London) |
| | Language politics in Malaysia
[Media & Culture] Why the choice of Malay over English as the national language of Malaysia was a backward step. This article has 3 comments.
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| Issue 15: July 2005 (International Students) |
| | Without You
[Media & Culture] And now for something completely different... a poem.
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| Issue 14: June 2005 (Detention) |
| | Now I'm 25
[Media & Culture] What do you do when you turn 25?
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| | Ten things to remember or do if you're detained by the Immigration Department on suspicion that you are not an Australian citizen
[Media & Culture] You can now be locked up for not having your passport while shopping at Woolies! But do not fear, this top 10 list will save you from detention.
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| Issue 13: May 2005 (The China Story) |
| | A modern death trilogy
[Media & Culture] Three big stories surrounding death have emerged to dominate mainstream media in recent days. What are we to make of it all?
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| | Ten new rules for the post Pope generation
[Media & Culture] A few rules to help you survive in a world without the Holy Father.
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| Issue 12: March 2005 (A Postcard from Khartoum) |
| | A Right Royal f^$k up
[Media & Culture] Where does this worship come from for a person who has done nothing, made nothing, cured nothing, and provided nothing?
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| Issue 11: December 2004 (China's Children) |
| | Survivor vs Sex and the City
[Media & Culture] Reality TV: those on their high horse need to trade in for a donkey, while the rest of us should stand tall.
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| | The Catholic Vision of Democracy
[Media & Culture] Cardinal Pell has extolled the virtues of “democratic personalism” as opposed to the secular democracy we enjoy today. Here is one Catholic who disagrees with this vision.
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| | The Hidden Economy of Love: Part 2
[Media & Culture] Further explorations into love and its impact on the human condition.
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| Issue 10: October 2004 (Federal Election) |
| | The Hidden Economy of Love
[Media & Culture] An insight into how accounting and social relations are not as mutually exclusive as they might seem.
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| Issue 9: August 2004 (Israeli Drafting) |
| | Hedda Gabler: the tyranny of choice
[Media & Culture] Life for many is one long compromise and we constantly find ourselves in places we never intended to be.
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| | PowerUp Australia
[Media & Culture] An advertisement for a new non-profit organisation that is dedicated to encouraging people to become involved in politics.
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| Issue 8: July 2004 (Fast Food) |
| | A "moving" anecdote
[Media & Culture] Of bridges, burnouts and "booners".
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| | Reality television, is not reality...
[Media & Culture] At first glance, it looks like a playful new form of reality tv. Vote for Me is a segment on Channel Seven's Sunrise program where Channel Seven will choose six independent candidates from each of the states and endorse them to stand in the Senate. However looking deeper, Vote for Me is not about people power, but actually about a large media company becoming a hands on player in the Australian electoral system.
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| | Yes, I'd like fries with that
[Media & Culture] Despite the gut-wrenching effect of the documentary Super Size Me, McDonald's food is not inherently an evil thing. The real problem lies with us.
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| Issue 6: May 2004 (Focus on Iraq) |
| | Weblogs
[Media & Culture] The blog phenomenon — a view from the "outside".
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| Issue 4: November 2003 (Rebuilding Iraq) |
| | He's "not the marrying kind"
[Media & Culture] Really... what's all the fuss about gay marriage?
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| | Mediaset: the farce that is Italian television
[Media & Culture] Each program is composed of its share of young, female co-presenters, whose selection criteria are all the same: beautiful, tall, possibly foreign to allow for limited speaking time, and dancing ability to counter an inevitable drop in audience figures.
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| Issue 1: September 2003 (Homosexual Clergy) |
| | The Oxymoron of Homosexual Clergy
[Media & Culture] Homosexuals amongst the clergy - why religion and secular morals are sometimes necessarily incompatible.
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