Essay Archives

PERTH IS NOT high in the national consciousness, although its growth has sparked some interest. The latest Australian Bureau...

By Peter Newman

BEFORE I WAS born, my family arrived in Western Australia from Europe and moved into a ramshackle brick house...

By David Ritter

LATE JULY 1923, Newdegate district, Western Australia. It is not a sublime landscape, but beauty may yet be found...

By Andrea Gaynor

WHEN HE VISITED Perth in 2012, Arizona water specialist Robert Glennon remarked: ‘I expected a dry city on the...

By Ruth A Morgan

I RECENTLY EMAILED a photo of the Western Australian Christmas tree, Nuytsia floribunda, to a Chinese friend in Nanjing....

A YOUNG MAN – scarcely more than a boy – stands on a rock beside the deep sea. A...

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‘MUCH TO MY surprise in Dec last I received a particularly choice box of seeds, and your polite note,...

By Jessica White

‘I AM SO sick,’ my friend remarked, ‘of hearing about the fucking mining boom.’ It was 2009, and for...

By Sarah Burnside

FROM A SCIENTIFIC perspective, Aboriginal people entered the landmass of Sahul (greater Australia) more than fifty thousand years ago...

By Ken Mulvaney

lustre: radiance or brilliance of light THERE IS ANOTHER boom-and-bust resource industry in the West, one with a long and...

ON 9 APRIL 2013, a boat carrying sixty-seven asylum seekers from Sri Lanka made its way undetected through several...

IT IS EASY to hide people in the vast expanse of Western Australia. The state stretches thousands of kilometres,...