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MY SISTER AMINA is the only Muslim lesbian I know. When I told her this, she said I was...

Twelfth-century author Walter Map, on hearing that St Bernard had thrown himself on the body of a dead boy,...

By Andee Jones

GETTING WORK IN Australian detention centres was once surprisingly easy. First, you sent your CV to Australasian Correctional Management's...

By Madeleine Byrne

What is not on the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.Henry MillerThere is always power...

By Jim Hearn

TASMANIA IS NOT at a tipping point, in the sense that the looming changes it faces are irreversible. However,...

By Phil Bayley

SHOWING A VISITOR around can be excruciating as well as exhilarating, especially when show-casing the many wonders of the...

By Eleanor Ramsay

Some get it yoga-ing; some get it fighting; some get it dancing; some get it jungle-ing. I get it...

THIS STORY STARTS, as many good stories do, with a conversation between a taxi driver and a customer. In...

By Sophie Rigney

MOST MORNINGS, AFTER dropping my kids at school, I walk up on the Domain – a raised strip of...

By Helen Hayward

WE'RE RUNNING OUT of time; paving the streets with our striding feet, packs pounding our hips, back and forth....

By Ben Walter

I STILL COULDN'T' get my head around landing. Perhaps it was the economics; Australia, after all, had been all...

By Tadhg Muller

TASMANIA HAS NEVER been for the faint-hearted. Set against a majestic if somewhat eerie landscape, its often-bizarre political machinations...