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Wicked problems, wicked delight

I AM OF the generation of the wicked problem. At twenty-seven, most of my life has been lived amid...

Places for feeling

HOW IS IT that sensory experiences hold a unique power to plunge us so immediately into the reservoirs of...

By Ella Mudie

Global migration

WHEN CONSIDERING INTERNATIONAL immigration, most governments are predominately preoccupied by one overriding issue: 'illegal' migrants. The rule of law...

By Sergio Marchi

Learning like a forest

I LIVE ON top of a mountain on the edge of Lamington National Park, the largest protected subtropical rainforest...

By Sally MacKinnon

The relevance of irrelevance

IN 1901 MARK Twain battled America's imperial designs in the pages of an American literary magazine. Remarkably, the North...

By Robin Hemley

Love, social networks and other avatars

WHEN CONSIDERING TECHNOLOGY, few people immediately think of happiness and joy. Most find computing a challenge or irritating. It...

By Michael Blumanstein

Three for all

FROM THE THREE bears and wise men to the enduringly mundane 'sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll', the neat...

By Tony Barrell (dec.)

Finding a place in the narrative

AS THE 1996 election campaign began, Paul Keating needed to record a five-minute statement for a free advertising slot...

By Don Watson

Words from memory

Kate Veitch with her father.HERE IS MY father's dictionary, the one thing of his I...

By Kate Veitch

What’s this thing called sex?

I GOT TO know Bunty because of Dad. Reacting in shock, my father had put the house on the...

By Tangea Tansley

Wild coast

ALL THE TIME there was Piha, wonderful, free flying, fresh Piha with its knotty cliffs, black sand, wild beach,...

By Rosie Scott

The reluctant memoirist

She leaned across the picnic hamper, reaching out for my hearing aid in my open-palmed hand. I leaned back,...

By Donna McDonald