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IT WAS ALWAYS a thrill to find an email from the prospective president of the free world jumping out...

WHEN THOUSANDS OF unemployed miners, steel, clothing and textile workers, their friends, families and organisers pushed through the glass...

By Julianne Schultz

WHEN HE APPEARED to accept his fourth Miles Franklin award in the elegant surrounds of the Mitchell Library, Tim...

By Julianne Schultz

ONCE UPON A time in a far-off land, with cobblestone streets and gingerbread buildings, a handsome prince marries a...

By Julianne Schultz

WHEN I WAS growing up, in the 1960s, the food we ate and its supply was tangible – literally...

By Julianne Schultz

NAGGING CURIOSITY ABOUT where the rivers originated lured Australia's great European explorers beyond the Great Dividing Range. Equipped with...

By Julianne Schultz

THERE ARE RELATIVELY few places where a people from a diverse, secular society can come together to find common...

By Julianne Schultz

DURING THE 2010 election campaign we were told that the prospective leaders' favourite books wereThe Lord of the Rings...

By Julianne Schultz

THE IDEA OF the perfect body may be the ultimate conceit of our age or the final victory of...

By Julianne Schultz

WALKING ACROSS THE scorched lawns of the quadrangle of a major university, not so long ago when this was...

By Julianne Schultz

THE MONSTROUS WAVE that engulfed the north-east coast of Japan, sweeping the means and products of decades of industrial...

By Julianne Schultz

NEVER BEFORE IN human history has so much been known about so many by so many.The social media revolution...

By Julianne Schultz