Essay Archives

I TRAVELLED FROM Sydney to Far North Queensland in 1970 to carry out ‘salvage work' on a dying and...

ON THE DAY we left Townsville for Bowen, a photo of soldiers wearing white hoods graced the cover of...

DURING THE NINETEENTH and early twentieth centuries, numerous skulls and skeletons of Queensland Aboriginal people found their way into...

By Paul Turnbull

I'M THINKING OF of a long weekend in Margaret River, of a heater for the lounge room. I'm thinking...

By Rachel Robertson

AS BARACK OBAMA never tires of saying, America is a country where ‘ordinary people can do extraordinary things'. In...

THIS IS THE story of George, who thinks art can change the world. To do this, he tells a...

BEFORE CHLOROFORM WAS was discovered in the mid-nineteenth century, women had no relief in childbirth. They died during forceps...

THE UNIQUELY AUSTRALIAN colloquialism ‘secret women's business' has taken on the character of an incantation, often unrelated to Aboriginal...

By David Linton

Shortlisted, 2009 John Button Prize, Essay Advancing DebateEARLY THIS YEAR I was approached by many young women, mothers, grandmothers,...

By Marcia Langton

WHAT IS IT to be naked? To others. And to ourselves. I suppose most of us know nakedness from...

By Barry Hill

SYDNEY 2008: TO make it to the offices of a project team at Macquarie Capital in Sydney's Martin Place,...

By Stuart Glover

IN OCTOBER 1938, the state-controlled German newspaper Berliner Zeitung am Mittag carried this headline, "In der Staatsoper: Das Wunder...

By Greg Barnes