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Beating dickheads
I KNOW EXACTLY how you feel. I see you at the brekkie table, reading a newspaper. You – a...
Unable to let bygones be bygones
‘LET BYGONES BE bygones!’ Mum and Dad said to me, speaking over each other. Their faces shared their determination...
Made in cool Japan
I HAND MY passport and boarding pass to the officer at Brisbane International Airport and she notices I’m heading...
Powering Asia
I MEET TONY Pickard on the side of the highway at the X Line Road turn-off. He’s a grazier...
An unending, tortuous war in Kashmir
KASHMIR’S STORY IS, for me, a personal history of unresolved pain and grief. Once called a paradise on earth,...
Keeping the faith
WHEN I RECEIVED the link to a blog post by someone preaching that Muslims should not use contraception, of...
The Asian invasion
THE FIRST RIDE-ON mower my parents bought was always breaking down. This seems an incidental fact, but really it...
Good things come in pairs
ONE OF THE first things you notice at a Chinese wedding reception is the Chinese character for ‘double happiness’....
Embodying Venus
I HAVE A clear memory of the buttons – large, translucent-white plastic – and the teacher’s fingers unbuttoning the...
Climbing the walls
WE PULL UP outside the Centre. The dust resettles on the path, I pay my driver two dollars and...
A fantastic summer evening
I WAS THAT age when I was bathing in the season’s first rains without shame or concern for the...
The way one fell
Richard the Lionheart waits in a dungeon with his brothers for their father, Henry II, to come kill them....
