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AFTER THE MAROONS won the first game of the 2016 State of Origin series it was time for another...

THE ABILITY TO travel through time in our minds, to inhabit re-created pasts and imagined futures, is arguably one...

AMONG THE MANY slights and injustices Australia’s most recently deposed prime minister now has time to mull over, the...

By Julianne Schultz

‘CIVILISATION OFFICIALLY ENDED today,’ the ever-pithy Jane Caro tweeted forty-eight hours before Anzac Day 2015. She was not referring...

By Julianne Schultz

THIS IS THE second year that I’ve been involved as an editor of the Griffith Review novella edition, and...

By Aviva Tuffield

IN A RECENT article in The New Yorker, ‘The Dead Are Real’, Larissa MacFarquhar described historical fiction as ‘a...

By Sally Breen

WHEN PRIME MINISTER Tony Abbott declared and repeated, just in case it was missed the first time, that ‘the...

By Julianne Schultz

‘I’M NOT ASIAN and never will be,’ wrote Canadian author Karen Connelly in her Thai memoir, Touch the Dragon...

IT SEEMS POIGNANTLY appropriate that the web address gallipoli.net.au, which features the logo ‘Gallipoli: The Making of a Nation’,...

By Julianne Schultz

IN THE BEGINNING it is about land: enjoying, aggregating, owning, using, preserving, developing and selling land. Land is, and always...

By Julianne Schultz

AUSTRALIA WAS ONCE known as the land of the long weekend. It was a snappy catchphrase that, like all...

By Julianne Schultz

WESLEY ENOCH IS a remarkable man. He has an enviable ability to cut through: to see the whole picture,...

By Julianne Schultz