Memoir Archives

IF YA HEADING up north anyway, why don't ya try and get a job with the meat works up...

Attention, Ladies and Gentlemen: a message from the Sydney University Christian Evangelical Union. Make sure you leave Tuesday 1pm...

By Eliza Harvey

WE NEVER LIKE to think about the fact, but history repeats itself. Well, often it does: I am now...

By Gillian Bouras

I STILL CALL Australia home. But I have another home in Italy. Virtual bilocation is my thing rather than...

COULD IT BE true? Had we just made the first ever Halal Irish stew?The lamb's slaughterer could not have...

By Sudip Sen

LANGUAGE AND PLACE no longer define us as simply as they once did. We can slip and slide between...

By Susan Varga

IN 1989,WHILE on a visit to Poland, I was introduced to Piotr (Peter) Skrzynecki, the famous cabaret and artistic...

By Peter Skrzynecki

Q: Mum, how can you tell when politicians are lying?A: Their lips are moving, sweetheart.I MUST HAVE been a...

By Jay Verney

AS I DRANK wine in my narrow South London garden with blaring reggae beats from three neighbourhood parties, I...

By Marian Edmunds

ALTHOUGH AUSTRALIANS MAY be increasingly conscious of our unique, ancient, indigenous culture, the national psyche is very much attuned...

By Peter Doherty

The ‘new' stranger in Australia bears the burden of representing not only what ‘Australia' was but also what we...

By Adam Aitken

MARIAN IS AMERICAN, from Chicago. I've known her 15 years, ever since she arrived in Hong Kong. About five...

By Jane Camens