Essay Archives

IN THE FIRST month of John Howard's government, my then toddler son offered the new prime minister a soggy...

By Scott Rankin

IN SEPTEMBER 2013, four hundred men and women gathered in the Northern Territory town of Katherine for the Women...

By Cathy Hunt

THE EUROPEAN UNION does not have a cultural policy. It has programs, such as the Capital of Culture, which...

By Robyn Archer

IT'S 4 AM in late June, and we're in Longreach, driving to Winton in central western Queensland for the...

By Leigh Tabrett

THIS IS THE story of how karaoke, that quintessentially global entertainment, came to Noongar country in Western Australia in...

…for to know a place in any real and lasting way is sooner or later to dream it. That's...

By Kristina Olsson

AT THE OUTBREAK of World War II the Nordic economies of Finland, Sweden and Denmark were amongst Europe's most...

By Luke Slattery

HOUSEWIVES, A HUNDRED or more women at each performance, call out to an actor as she wanders mindlessly around...

AT FIRST GLANCE, four years ago, Elwick Bay foreshore in the northern suburbs of Hobart was a barren, reclaimed...

By Pippa Dickson

IT IS A glowering mid-January day and the noise of cicadas flows like an angry wave through the air...

By Vivienne Skinner

JOAN DIDION WROTE 'we tell ourselves stories in order to live', and so often has the idea that humanity...

By Maria Tumarkin

AT THE END of World War II, with the city of Tokyo a smoking ruin, Hiroshima and Nagasaki pulverised,...

By Kate Veitch