Memoir Archives

ON JANUARY 7, 1990, Australia's only murder inside a women's prison occurred at Brisbane Women's Correctional Centre at Boggo...

By Debbie Kilroy

PHILOSOPHERS SAY INNER contradictions are a natural thing; they lie within the core of the human condition. I'd add...

By Lee Kofman

SHE WAS COMING towards us with a broad smile, proffering a plate of golden round buns. She said they...

By Deb Newell

FOR FIVE YEARS from 1970 I pushed a stroller, with a baby or two or three, in passionate street...

By Wendy McCarthy

IN OCTOBER, ALONG with the arrival of the first Christmas beetle and the distorted tunes of far-off Mr Whippy...

FOUR YEARS AFTER the release of the film adaptation of Romulus, My Father, it still feels strange to refer...

By Raimond Gaita

In memory of Harvey. Dedicated to Donna. IN 1977, ON a windy summer day, two thirteen-year-olds walked into a milk...

By Meera Atkinson

'THERE ARE TWO types of people in the world, aren't there, Aunty Tone?' asks Bella, who is five going...

By Toni Jordan

A NEW MALE human being entered the universe a year ago, with one-eighth of his genetic material identical to...

FOR A MOMENT he doesn't recognise me. He stares at me, rheumy-eyed, then breaks into a smile.'Very nice,' he...

By Brian Geach

TWO MONTHS BEFORE my husband, John, died of secondary bone cancer, I asked him if it would be all...

By Virginia Lloyd

THE SYNAGOGUE WAS still there: an inconspicuous brick building in a poor part of Shanghai where tower blocks had...

By Carolijn Visser