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IN MARCH 2008, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that Australia would be a candidate for a non-permanent seat on...

ROAD BUILDERS MADE me slow down. The Surf Highway switched from bitumen to shingle. The hire car, a shiny,...

By Rachel Buchanan

IN APRIL 1973, five months after Gough Whitlam was elected prime minister, a woman I admired for the talks...

By Sara Dowse

IN THE PRE-DAWN, as Dave Crabtree drives the forty kilometres out of Dalby to the massive power station he's...

By Ann Arnold

IT WAS AUGUST 1981 and I had returned, after three years, to my first main traveller hangout in Asia....

What's wrong with a bit of space? What's wrong with the possibility of being able to get to a...

By David Ritter

IN AN EVER more populous and competitive world nothing can be taken for granted. From legislation to lifestyle, our...

By Ryan Heath

I HADN'T BEEN in Sydney that long and wasn’t used to much of it. As an Englishman everything was...

EVERY WORK OF fiction, regardless of length or genre, is to some extent a kind of mystery offered to...

By Carmel Bird

AUSTRALIA IS OFTEN seen from abroad, and at home, as a land with no clear cultural core – apart...

By Alison Carroll

THERE HAVE BEEN valiant attempts over centuries and across continents to try to understand the prevailing mood of the...

By Fergus Hanson

I'M ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED to have been invited out of retirement to have the privilege of addressing you. I only...

By David Puttnam