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

By Tanveer Ahmed

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

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

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

By Ashley Hay

‘WHAT YOU NEED to understand is that automotive work is very monotonous.’I was in a restaurant in Port Melbourne...

By Gideon Haigh

VISITING SYDNEY FROM New York before Christmas, I dropped by the office of a client and former colleague. Her...

By Virginia Lloyd

BRISBANE, 15 JUNE, 2039: Chris shuffles into the homeless shelter. They’ve always been spartan places, but more so now...

By David Peetz

ANNIE WAS WORKING as a secretary when she turned sixty, a milestone she’d always regarded as her retirement age....

By Darryl Dymock

TWO DECADES AGO, my father, then in his mid-seventies, used to fly to the northern New South Wales town...

By Mandy Sayer

IT IS GETTING dark as we approach the Cameron Highlands, about two hundred kilometres north of and a three-hour...

‘I HAVE NEVER used a vacuum cleaner,’ my ardently intellectual mother says proudly. ‘That was my condition when I...

By Hayley Katzen

WHILE MANY ASPECTS of working life have changed in recent decades, the inequality of outcomes experienced by male and...

By Liz Temple