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Race plans
IT’S EARLY MORNING and I’m waiting with ten thousand other people in the four lanes of road that separate...
Personal score
SeasonBY QUEERTIME SHE grew restless and could not see what was in front of her. She felt rootless and...
Dragon mother
My China-born wife, Susan, dreamt that one day our son Max would become the Number 1 golf player in...
Pacific games
WILL GENIA, RATED by many as one of the best halfbacks in world rugby over recent years, is one...
Golden girls
Who would have thought it possible a generation ago – young women spending the day, every day, wrestling? Who could have imagined that a gate at the entrance of Balali would welcome all visitors in the name of these girls who have brought glory to the village? That this would be possible in a state that has been in the news for all the wrong reasons – including female foeticide, honour killings and rape?
A great leap forward
As tens of thousands of refugees continued to pour south across the border and into shantytown settlements like the one he called home in Shau Kei Wan, Rong Guotuan went the other way – he went north. Ludicrous though it sounds today, Rong thought he had a better chance of achieving table tennis success on the mainland. And he wasn’t the first: a few years earlier, two other accomplished Hong Kong table tennis players, Fu Qifang and Jiang Yongning, had also crossed north...
Green and pleasant memories
‘CAN WE MEET later?’ reads the text message. ‘I’ve got to support someone in court.’ I had arrived at...
Ferocious animals
MY DAD WOKE me early to go down town and buy streamers. It was 1989 and our team was...
Icarus: Bot
@goddess: You tweeted the words sink and lower. You sound depressed@iceBorg: Goddess, I’m falling, tweeting free, from a public...
Unfurling
EVA HAD LOVED the first slap of cold water on her face when she dived into the pool, then...
A landscape of stories
Winner of the 2015 Nature Conservancy Australia Nature Writing PrizeABOUT EIGHTEEN MONTHS ago, I started to spend time walking...
To everything there is a season…
NORWEGIANS WORK ONE HUNDRED days less per year than Australians. The whole country savours its precious few months of...
