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Winner, 2016 Walkley Young Journalist of the Year Awards – Student Journalist of the Year categoryTHERE WERE MANY things...

By Jarni Blakkarly

I KNOW EXACTLY how you feel. I see you at the brekkie table, reading a newspaper. You – a...

By Miguel Syjuco

‘LET BYGONES BE bygones!’ Mum and Dad said to me, speaking over each other. Their faces shared their determination...

By Prodita Sabarini

I HAND MY passport and boarding pass to the officer at Brisbane International Airport and she notices I’m heading...

By Sally McLaren

I MEET TONY Pickard on the side of the highway at the X Line Road turn-off. He’s a grazier...

By Cameron Muir

KASHMIR’S STORY IS, for me, a personal history of unresolved pain and grief. Once called a paradise on earth,...

By Majid Maqbool

WHEN I RECEIVED the link to a blog post by someone preaching that Muslims should not use contraception, of...

By Dewi Anggraeni

THE FIRST RIDE-ON mower my parents bought was always breaking down. This seems an incidental fact, but really it...

By Jessie Cole

ONE OF THE first things you notice at a Chinese wedding reception is the Chinese character for ‘double happiness’....

By Michelle Law

I HAVE A clear memory of the buttons – large, translucent-white plastic – and the teacher’s fingers unbuttoning the...

By Annie Zaidi

WE PULL UP outside the Centre. The dust resettles on the path, I pay my driver two dollars and...

By Romi Grossberg

I WAS THAT age when I was bathing in the season’s first rains without shame or concern for the...

By Mohit Parikh