Cher is an essayist and critic in Birraranga/Melbourne, via Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide and Singapore. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, The Lifted Brow, The Saturday Paper, Overland Literary Journal, and SBS, among many others. She is a co-editor at Liminal Magazine, reviews editor at Meanjin, and was formerly a Kill Your Darlings’ New Critic and Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow.
The Politics of Health
by Katerina Bryant Last week, I saw a tweet praising Australia’s healthcare system. The person who had posted the tweet had gone into hospital for appendicitis, and had come out with both their appendix removed and no bill charged. The thread was littered with similar...