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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...
To a new Babylon
IN THE WESTERN tradition, faith and reason stand at opposing poles. My social-scientific training was deeply framed by this...
World in motion
MANY IN THE social sciences have given up on trying to imagine the future. Between the options of conceiving...
Accommodating new perspectives
TWO POWERFUL AND contradictory images come to mind when I’m asked to reflect on my experience of attending the...
President Kennedy’s topper
IN JANUARY 1961, nobody on earth symbolised the future like John F Kennedy. At his inauguration the youthful president...
Future perfect
IN THE SOUL of Man under Socialism (1891), Oscar Wilde wrote, ‘A map of the world that does not...
Living with complexity
BIOMEDICAL RESEARCHERS LIKE me probe the mechanistic basis of health and disease. In a long career working at the...
Notes from an underground future
SINCE MY LATE teens, I’ve had a penchant for Russian literature. It started with Dostoevsky. It may have been...
City dreaming
White man got no dreaming Him go ’nother way White man him go different. Him got road belong himself.THESE...
The tale of two cities
IN JANUARY 2016 in the holiday atmosphere that envelops Melbourne – remember the Australian Open and Australia Day long weekend? –...
A new mother tongue
AS OXFORD ECONOMIST Kate Raworth so rightly puts it, economics is the ‘mother tongue’ of public policy – and it...
