Articles Archive

How forms inform us

IT SEEMS WE are regularly filling in forms of one kind or another: forms for banks, the government, rental...

By Kate McMurray

Maids at work

IT IS SUMMER 2008 in downtown Beirut and in the tiny bathroom of an upmarket rooftop restaurant a young...

By Annee Lawrence

A reluctant heroine

DEEP IN THE lush green, the sun has just set behind the soaring mountains. The town of The Third...

By Frances Guo

Baby steps

AT 10 ON a Tuesday morning on a busy street in Melbourne’s inner north, a young woman in black...

By Jenny Sinclair

Artificial flowers
The opposite of work

THEY’D TAKEN OVER a week to drive from Lake Garda, moseying into obscure glacial valleys (he liked poking around)...

By Helen Elliott

From blackboards to e-learning

I STARTED TEACHING in 1974 in suburban Melbourne. I had a class of twenty-eight grade two children whose average...

By Rachel Flynn

We say: a work of art.

THROUGHOUT HISTORY INTERPRETATIONS of the exact work an artist is responsible for have changed dramatically. And yet what audiences...

By Pat Hoffie

Ting Pei

he’s a conjurorof shapes tossing trianglesinto blue calling stalksfrom the ground asking waterto dance rocks to slideand roll roofs to boblike sea birds he’s a...

By Duncan Richardson

Trauma, work and adversity

BARRY ENTERED MY office in a whirl of fluorescence, hyperventilation and dirt. His workplace referred him to me under...

By Tanveer Ahmed

Ghost figs

Once, magpies squabbled overheadwhile kookaburras stared.At dusk, our car was a boatin a tide of cattle,tails swishing, bitumen studdedwith...

By Laura Jan Shore

Interview with
Kristina Olsson

Kristina Olsson as Brisbane-based writer. She worked as a journalist for many years, writing for The Australian, The Courier-Mail and The Sunday...

By Madeleine Watts

Adaptation

EVERY YEAR, IN first semester, my husband teaches a tertiary course called ‘Biological Adaptation to Climate Change’ to third-year...

By Ashley Hay