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Securing tomorrow’s Australia today
IS AUSTRALIA REALLY the ‘lucky country’? Not according to most Australians, who will tell you about the rising cost...
From this time forward I pledge
14 OCTOBER 2007: This date will remain significant for us both. We now share a flag, national anthem and...
For us all
DAWN AT BONDI reveals a snapshot of today’s Australia: nightclubbed couples prone on the sand, Chinese tripod photographers framing...
A necessary marriage
EARLY IN 1959, the British novelist and physicist CP Snow delivered his famous Rede Lecture The Two Cultures at...
Not beyond imagining
IT'S FIVE-ISH ON a dark November evening in Maynooth, the thriving university town on the edge of Dublin where...
Beyond the ‘smell of an oily rag’
THERE IS A need for a significant paradigm shift in how we support and grow the cultural sector. If...
Interview with Annie Zaidi
ANNIE ZAIDI IS a journalist and creative writer based in Mumbai. Since the publication of her first book –...
On ‘The Complete Stories’, by David Malouf
THERE ARE ALWAYS two landscapes in a Malouf story. The one you can touch with your hands, and the one that is dreamed – discoverable by language, always on the verge of disappearing.
On ‘Five Bells’, by Gail Jones
GAIL JONES’ FIFTH novel, Five Bells, is many things: a love letter to Sydney and its physical beauty; a deeply moving exploration of the effects of grief and loss; and, perhaps most importantly, a luminous and shimmering reflection on time, memory and mortality.
On ‘Grace’, by Robert Drewe
THE ‘SOCIAL REALIST novel’ that Robert Drewe quite deliberately set out to write with Grace could have sunk under the weight of its own ideas, were it not for the thriller foil the story is wrapped in.
On ‘Don’t Take Your Love to Town’, by Ruby Langford Ginibi
N 1988, DON’T Take Your Love to Town became the first of five autobiographies that Ruby Langford Ginibi would have published during her almost thirty-year career as a writer, Aboriginal historian, activist and lecturer. Indeed it was this first book, her life story covering five generations of familial bonds, written in what would become her trademark conversational style, which would have a historic impression on Indigenous literature in Australia.
On ‘Nine Parts of Desire’, by Geraldine Brooks
Welcome to the artful world of literary and narrative non-fiction, where the author’s experience is shuffled and edited in ways that dramatise and personalise the story for readers.
