Essay Archives

I'M DRIVING BACK from a literary soiree somewhere in Sydney where yet again I've been hauled over the coals...

By Anthony Macris

IT IS SURELY a sign of our times that a public controversy in Australia has been triggered by the...

By David Young

I START THIS article with a disclaimer: my wife and I are childless by choice. I'd like to say...

By Tim Richards

Sitting on the stepTHE ACCENT GAVE her away. I asked: "How long have you been here?" Twenty years, she...

By Sylvia Lawson

RECENTLY, I HAD a series of unsatisfactory encounters with a disembodied voice. I was living in the United States...

By Rosaleen Love

When I met Maree Inggall in the foyer of her Sydney hotel, she had travelled from Melbourne to the...

By Catherine Kevin

IN 2002, A young Russian mother still breastfeeding her baby was separated from the child and locked up in...

By Anne Coombs

FAMILY LAW IS hot. If it isn't the subject of the latest television current affairs program, newspaper editorial, opinion...

By Rosemary Hunter

IN JUNE 1988, my mother became younger than my youngest child. It was night-time when the phone call came....

I am a human being and hope to be neither saint nor scoundrel. As one who has spent his...

By Paul Brennan

ONE WINTER'S DAY at the end of the '50s, in the Melbourne suburbs of my childhood, I received in...

By Allan Gyngell

IN THE LATE 1960s, the peripatetic and mercurial Australian artist Donald Friend found something of the happiness he had...