Essay Archives

CHINA’S PRESIDENT XI Jinping and I have a common understanding: we believe that the internet has become the Chinese...

‘WHEN YOU DON’T like whoever is in charge, you can vote them out. Right?’ It’s two in the morning, and...

By André Dao

TAKE A BANGKOKIAN. Let’s called him Somchai. He’s in his mid-thirties and is of (typical) Thai–Chinese ethnicity.Somchai grew up...

By Voranai Vanijaka

Winner, 2016 Walkley Young Journalist of the Year Awards – Student Journalist of the Year categoryTHERE WERE MANY things...

By Jarni Blakkarly

I KNOW EXACTLY how you feel. I see you at the brekkie table, reading a newspaper. You – a...

By Miguel Syjuco

‘LET BYGONES BE bygones!’ Mum and Dad said to me, speaking over each other. Their faces shared their determination...

By Prodita Sabarini

I HAND MY passport and boarding pass to the officer at Brisbane International Airport and she notices I’m heading...

By Sally McLaren

I MEET TONY Pickard on the side of the highway at the X Line Road turn-off. He’s a grazier...

By Cameron Muir

MONARCHY IN AUSTRALIA is an idea whose time is past. For some time now the question has been how...

By Jim Davidson

THE TERM ‘HISTORY wars’ is best known in Australia for summing up the fierce debate over the nature and...

By Peter Cochrane

THE ANZACS AT Gallipoli have not only eclipsed the greater Australian involvement on the Western Front, but have occluded...

By Jim Davidson

ON 26 SEPTEMBER 1999, the Governor-General delivered the opening address at the inaugural Australian Conference on Lutheran Education at...

By Gerhard Fischer