Royce Kurmelovs

climate change

The World’s on Fire, Yet Australia Keeps Pumping Out the Gas

Australia ranks among the worst in the world for its climate policies. Its government still wants to expand the fossil fuel industry.
Royce Kurmelovs
8.11.21
immigration

Life After 4 Years of Detention Hell on Nauru

Australia's offshore immigration detention centres are now 'closed'. Here's one former detainee's story of rebirth.
Royce Kurmelovs
11.5.20
Money

What a Car Accident Taught Me About Australia's Secret Business of Debt

Australian households are the most indebted in the world. This didn't happen by chance.
Royce Kurmelovs
9.7.20
Australian Bushfires

Who to Blame for Australia's Bullshit Approach to Climate Change

Look these coal lobbyists in the eye. Remember their names.
Royce Kurmelovs
1.16.20
Crime

Things I've Learned About Homegrown Terrorism by Following the Alt-Right

In 2015 I started reporting from Reclaim Australia rallies. That movement has now reached a tragic culmination in New Zealand.
Royce Kurmelovs
3.22.19
Books

How Australian Mining Boomed—Until Cheap Laziness Caught Up

In an extract from the book "Boom and Bust​," VICE regular Royce Kurmelovs​ examines the way that greed, irresponsibility, and failing to learn from the past brought down the mining boom.
Royce Kurmelovs
10.14.18
Blackkklansman

How Fringe KKK Ideology Went Mainstream In Australia

A decade ago, many of the alt-right opinions voiced across mainstream media would have been unthinkable. So how did we get here?
Royce Kurmelovs
8.15.18
Blackkklansman

The True Story Behind Spike Lee’s Blackkklansman: A Black Cop Who Infiltrated the KKK

"My only regret was that I couldn't reveal who I was and what I was doing to thoroughly embarrass them and show them what idiots they were."
Royce Kurmelovs
7.25.18
radical solutions

How Tech is Helping to Solve the Refugee Crisis

Smartphones as survival.
Royce Kurmelovs
7.9.18
Australiana

Things I've Seen Reporting on Australia's Populist Rage

For three years I've been covering the spread of outsider politics around the country. And I've learned a lot.
Royce Kurmelovs
12.18.17
Australiana

Why We Made a Doco About Australia's Medical Weed Outlaws

Medical cannabis may be legal, but bureaucracy is intense and a lot of patients can't get access.
Royce Kurmelovs
12.11.17
end of manufacturing

Holden Built its Last Car Friday and Now We Don't Make Cars

Here's what it was like watching Adelaide's factory close forever.
Royce Kurmelovs
10.23.17
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