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Van Badham

Van Badham is a theatre-maker and author of QAnon And On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults. An occasional broadcaster, critic and trade union feminist, she writes columns for the Guardian and lives in Melbourne.

July 2024

  • Man, holding "you're cute sign" and woman lean out of separate car windows

    Is flirting dying? The apps appear to have swallowed the most delicate and delicious of human interactions

    Van Badham
  • Group of isolated, coloured silhouettes of people talking.

    Gossip, my friends, is both a moral mission and a pleasure. It’s also something those in power can’t control

    Van Badham

June 2024

  • Woman sheltering from the sun under Union Jack umbrella Hyde Park London<br>AP6BC7 Woman sheltering from the sun under Union Jack umbrella Hyde Park London

    Brits, you have no idea how to be sun safe. But as an Australian, I can tell you exactly what to do

    Van Badham
  • A boy looking at a phone screen, with the image pixellated out

    Vomit-inducing deepfake nudes show yet again that when misogyny intersects with AI and elitism, girls get hurt

    Van Badham

May 2024

  • Cate Blanchett attends the press conference for 'UNHCR: Displaced Stories' during the 77th annual Cannes film festival

    Cate Blanchett was pilloried for saying she’s ‘middle class’. Here’s why she’s right on the money – in Australia at least

    Van Badham
    Having pots of Hollywood dollars shouldn’t invalidate the cultural experience of the actor’s rearing, education and life opportunities
  • The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, former Business Council of Australia CEO Jennifer Westacott and the home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, and her daughter in 2022

    Fellas, if you want there to be more babies, be a dad. A dad in the home

    Van Badham
    Inaccessible work, outrageous childcare costs and the threat of family violence are only some of the issues holding back Australia’s birthrate
  • A boy looking sad in front of a children's placard that says 'Mummy I miss you'

    As Australia screams for action against lethal male violence, this is a culture war for survival

    Van Badham
    I have survived an abusive relationship, stalking and sexual assault – yet even I was stunned at the revelation of men using smart fridges to threaten women

April 2024

  • Karen Webb speaks to media

    The disinformation hurricane surrounding the Bondi stabbing marks the end of Twitter as a breaking news destination

    Van Badham
  • Jarvis Cocker performs with Pulp in Manchester in 2023

    We hear about a ‘class ceiling’ in Australian arts. Cultural employers should measure diversity like corporates do

    Van Badham

March 2024

  • a girl on a smart phone

    Social media is making kids sad – and it’s bad news for democracy

    Van Badham
  • Cranbrook school

    The ABC’s Cranbrook school investigation shows why Australia needs to turn its back on single-sex cultures built on exclusion

    Van Badham

February 2024

  • The cover of the ‘Employer Gender Pay Gaps Snapshot’ is seen at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra

    Some people are desperately averse to hard data – the gender pay gap is no exception

    Van Badham
    The first gender pay gap report dropped and screaming gender conniptions from people heavily invested in reductive stereotypes of women appeared shortly thereafter
  • Teenage girls spa day at home

    ‘Sephora tweens’ are raiding Drunk Elephant – and we only have ourselves to blame

    Van Badham
    A TikTok video battle is now in place, with Generation Alpha firing salvoes that are met punch-for-punch by every online generation that isn’t dead
  • School children

    Facebook’s endless back-to-school photos spark complex feelings for childfree people like me – but sadness isn’t one of them

    Van Badham
    Not having kids becomes like not getting a wanted job or a place at art school. Life-changing, sure – but not defining, not all-consuming

January 2024

  • Treasurer Jim Chalmers with prime minister Anthony Albanese

    The stage-three tax cuts are finally being revised. The rich complaining Labor broke its promise just sound vulgar

    Van Badham
    Anyone wishing to make hay of Albanese’s ‘broken promise’ deserves to be asked to just whom in the electorate this promise was made
  • ‘I think there’s cause for national pride in our true Pisa results after the Save Our Schools survey’s revelations.’

    Australian students aren’t trying in the Pisa exams. They should be congratulated for their disdain

    Van Badham
    The most meaningful information to come out of the Pisa assessment is the revelation that Australian kids don’t give a shit about it
  • Denmark’s Crown Princess Mary and Crown Prince Frederik on the steps of the Sydney Opera House in 2013

    The promotion of Australian-born Mary from princess to queen proves what a pure lottery the aristocracy has always been

    Van Badham
    With Denmark’s Queen Margrethe abdicating, Mary may come to fulfil an imaginative role as a local queen for Australians when her husband Prince Frederik accedes to the throne

December 2023

  • Beach picnic

    Christmas in Australia has become an expression of diverse, personalised and secular joy

    Van Badham
  • A man walks into a Centrelink

    After all those dole diaries and ‘mutual obligations’, it turns out Australia’s privatised employment services don’t work

    Van Badham

November 2023

  • Man a self-checkout

    Supermarkets are ditching self-checkouts in a sign that we can push back against the technofuturist tide

    Van Badham
    The kiosks have saved corporate chains money on retail wages – but come at a price for our shared sense of community
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