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ON OUR FIRST day in Kalgoorlie, a local woman in her mid-thirties tells us that ‘Kal wouldn’t exist if...

IN 2013 A total of 429,000 Western Australians visited Bali, with more than a thousand arriving every day. Most...

THE PILBARA, THE mighty, resource rich, economic powerhouse in Australia’s far north-west, is breathtakingly vast and ecologically unique. It...

IN CONTRAST TO Western Australia’s wondrous Indian Ocean sunsets, there have been many false dawns in the quest for...

By Alec Coles

THE SIREN CALL ‘Go West, young man’ has a long history in Australia, Canada and the United States. In...

Response on reading ‘Former glory’, the novella by Cate Kennedy published in Griffith Review 46: Forgotten Stories – The...

By Fleur Fallon

Under this site was a swampThe waters remainonly run deeper still– Plaque at Perth railway station A SMALL BOY is...

By Nandi Chinna

GOING HOME FROM work on late afternoons in summer, I drive west between lines of flat grey bush straight...

By Anna Haebich

Selected for The Best Australian Essays 2015 EVERY FEW MONTHS my mother flies north from Perth to Karratha with a...

By Rebecca Giggs

…We are, we often feel, living on the edge of something good. Nothing disturbs us. Winds from...

By Carmen Lawrence

Finalist in the United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Awards 2015 in the Promotion of Indigenous Recognition Award...

THE TYRANNY OF myopia continues to skew the chronicle of Australian art history. According to Edmund Capon in his...

By Ted Snell