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The sickness of social organisation
TAKE A LOOK in your medicine cabinet; these days, it’s where wellness lives. No longer satisfied with treating illness...
Young lady, that’s inappropriate
AFTER GRADUATING FROM law school, I spent a full and disturbing year working as a judge’s associate in the District Court of Queensland. The role required silence and discretion, and each week I sat, mute and powerless, watching things unfurl in front of me – both in and out of court – that made me want to get up and run. Forever the youngest in the room, often the only female, things that were normal to the seasoned lawyer unsettled me. I used to think all the time: Is anyone else seeing this?
Measuring imperfection
IN RETROSPECT, IT was always a stupid idea to buy a Fitbit; I’m still not entirely sure why I...
Under the skin
Everyone forgets that the real force behind the feminist movement was individual women’s disappointment with men. Even though equal...
To my future child
TO MY FUTURE child: Your grandmother’s mother, my wai-po, is a pack rat. I parked in her garage twice a...
On ‘Vampyre’, by Margaret Wild and Andrew Yeo
PUBLISHED IN 2011, Margaret Wild’s picture book Vampyre is a hallucinatory marriage of minimal text and symbolic imagery, rendered...
On ‘Don’t Call Me Ishmael’, by Michael Gerard Bauer
IT’S NOT EASY having a weird name, as many teenagers with foreign or experimental parents can attest – or...
On ‘Café Scheherazade’, by Arnold Zable
In Café Scheherazade, Arnold Zable has harnessed anecdote and history – the realities of the Second World War and...
On ‘Nine Parts of Desire’, by Geraldine Brooks
‘THE DAILY LIFE of Muslim women.’ ‘An understanding of the women behind the veils.’ ‘A compelling insight into women...
On ‘Just Macbeth!’, by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
JUST MACBETH! IS Shakespeare like I’ve never read him before. It’s raucous and disgusting, immature and absurd. Kings sing...
On ‘Faith Singer’, by Rosie Scott
I’ve already lived several lifetimes and out of it all learned a few things – among them the necessity...
On ‘The Harp in the South’, by Ruth Park
IN OCTOBER 1945, just three months after Japan’s surrender ended Australia’s role in the Second World War, the Sydney...
