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Making nations
IT SEEMS POIGNANTLY appropriate that the web address gallipoli.net.au, which features the logo ‘Gallipoli: The Making of a Nation’,...
On ‘Bran Nue Dae’, by Jimmy Chi
Amid the fun and laughter of the film, memories of the original musical streamed back to me. I know it well; I spent time with Jimmy Chi and his partner, Glennys Allen, in Broome in the mid-1980s when he was working on the songs and the concept. I’d made my own road trip to Broome in a canary-yellow V8 station wagon that was covered with red dust.
On ‘Fox’, by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks
FOX WAS A contemporary classic the minute it was published – an extraordinary picture book that has been acclaimed throughout...
Family first
When my teenage twin sister told me she was pregnant, I became angry. I called her a 'slut' and...
Becoming Kalgoorlie
ON OUR FIRST day in Kalgoorlie, a local woman in her mid-thirties tells us that ‘Kal wouldn’t exist if...
Bali
IN 2013 A total of 429,000 Western Australians visited Bali, with more than a thousand arriving every day. Most...
Power to grow
THE PILBARA, THE mighty, resource rich, economic powerhouse in Australia’s far north-west, is breathtakingly vast and ecologically unique. It...
The spirit of place
IN CONTRAST TO Western Australia’s wondrous Indian Ocean sunsets, there have been many false dawns in the quest for...
Grow up with your country
THE SIREN CALL ‘Go West, young man’ has a long history in Australia, Canada and the United States. In...
Just locks of hair
Response on reading ‘Former glory’, the novella by Cate Kennedy published in Griffith Review 46: Forgotten Stories – The...
Swamp
Under this site was a swampThe waters remainonly run deeper still– Plaque at Perth railway station A SMALL BOY is...
From the edge of the edge
GOING HOME FROM work on late afternoons in summer, I drive west between lines of flat grey bush straight...
