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SAUL TURNS OFF the bitumen onto the dirt road and drives due west. The ute rattles along over the...

By Graham Lang

RACHEL THERE WAS A cement wall separating the compound from the desert. The wall was three metres high. Purple wildflowers grew...

HE INSISTS ON a hotel room. You want him to stay with your family – you, Graeme and daughters, Sal...

By Suzanne McCourt

WILLIAM DUTTON WAS still walking towards school. Two decades after he’d finished, still. Carrying his guitar, head down, mumbling...

By Stephen Orr

FOREWORDBy Penny HuestonCORY TAYLOR, WHO passed away in July, was a joy to work with. Over the years I...

I’VE NEVER BEEN the sporty type – built for comfort rather than speed, more shot-putter than marathon runner. I...

By Edwina Shaw

IT WASN’T UNTIL my young daughter asked why Sam Newman was calling me and the rest of The Outer...

By Nicole Hayes

FOR THE LAST two years I’ve been walking the streets of suburban Melbourne, armed with camera and notebook, a...

By Nick Gadd

A formal committee table surrounded by chairs is seen towards the back of the stage. Lounge chairs and a...

By Gideon Haigh

the opening serve, so to speak, goes to Rosie– she pushes another empty wheelchairward to ward and our heads...

By Chris Armstrong

AFTER THE MAROONS won the first game of the 2016 State of Origin series it was time for another...

By Julianne Schultz

BOTH NAOMI MCCARTHY and Duncan Free are Olympic gold medal winning athletes. Naomi was vice-captain of the Australian women’s water...