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The small sell

"We can't earn your respect so we're gonna buy it." – The Presets, at the Tsubi Jeans and Modular...

The sublime nature of politics

KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN, THE controversial German composer, once described the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 as "the greatest work...

By Martin Leet

Chains of connection

ACROSS NORTHERN AND and central Australia there are special places recognised as sacred sites with varying degrees of restriction...

By Paul Taçon

Northern Exposure – crossing the minefields of Jaffna

IT WAS MY tenth journey to the island of Sri Lanka. Elephants had been the focus on all my...

By Peter Davis

The pain of disrespect

ON MARCH 31 this year, a cultural performance was organised to raise funds for the tsunami victims in Sumatra....

By Dewi Anggraeni

Habits of inclusion

AUSTRALIA'S UNLIKELIEST TELEVISION presenter, Peter Cundall, recently conducted viewers of the ABC TV's Gardening Australia on a tour of his garden...

By Kay Ferres

A brief reflection on the Cooktown orchid

This essay inspired us to use the Cooktown orchid in the logo of the Griffith Review Emerging Writers' Prize....

By Tim Chandler

Listening not talking

GOVERNMENTS OFTEN CONSULT. They set up inquiries about new laws and policies on everything from taxation to climate change...

By George Williams

Just another suicide?

EACH DAY SOME day two and a half million commuters pass through the turnstiles at Tokyo's Ikebukuro metro station....

By Mark Chou

A tipping point for impact investing

THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL crisis or GFC, as it is affectionately referred to in discussions taking place in the boardrooms...

By Kylie Charlton

Getting over globalisation

THE IDEA OF globalisation never enjoyed popular support in developed nations and for that reason it will probably become...

By Chris Zappone

After the afterword

THIS IS AN ending to my latest novel, The Book of Rapture, that was eventually abandoned – creating a very different...

By Nikki Gemmell