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

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

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

PERTH IS NOT high in the national consciousness, although its growth has sparked some interest. The latest Australian Bureau...

By Peter Newman

BEFORE I WAS born, my family arrived in Western Australia from Europe and moved into a ramshackle brick house...

By David Ritter

LATE JULY 1923, Newdegate district, Western Australia. It is not a sublime landscape, but beauty may yet be found...

By Andrea Gaynor

WHEN HE VISITED Perth in 2012, Arizona water specialist Robert Glennon remarked: ‘I expected a dry city on the...

By Ruth A Morgan

I RECENTLY EMAILED a photo of the Western Australian Christmas tree, Nuytsia floribunda, to a Chinese friend in Nanjing....

A YOUNG MAN – scarcely more than a boy – stands on a rock beside the deep sea. A...

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‘MUCH TO MY surprise in Dec last I received a particularly choice box of seeds, and your polite note,...

By Jessica White

‘I AM SO sick,’ my friend remarked, ‘of hearing about the fucking mining boom.’ It was 2009, and for...

By Sarah Burnside