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BEN BASTER ARRIVED mid-afternoon in the city that his guidebook called an "exotic and teeming tropical metropolis". After a...

IT'S OFFICIAL. AS of August 2006, my last youth-related engagement ends. For nearly a decade, I have worked on...

By Marcus Westbury

And now, what's going to happen to us without barbarians?They were, those people, a kind of solution.C.P. Cavafy, Waiting...

By Wayne Macauley

MORE THAN HALF a century ago, Arthur Koestler wrote that much of what you needed to know about a...

By Julianne Schultz

IN ONLY ONE South-East Asian city I have visited can visitors walk around without fear of crime. The streets...

By Mark Juddery

Whatever lies under a stoneLies under the stone of the worldThe Green Centipede – Douglas Stewart A MONTH AFTER the funeral...

By Matthew Condon

IT STARTED AS "a quixotic idea dreamed up last month in a north London pub", wrote Ian Katz, feature...

Selected for Best Australian Stories 2006 GO DOWN TO the rock pools when the evening tide is out and there...

By Patrick Holland

NOT SO LONG ago, I lived in paradise. A luxury apartment on the Gold Coast. I still remember waking...

By Sally Breen

THE HOUSES IN the estate are all the same. Low-slung brick with dry brown roofs and yards. The fences...

By Andrew Belk

JØRN LOMBORG FLEW to Australia to provide "balance". In October 2003, just as the Kyoto debate was cranking up...

By Katherine Wilson

I LIKE BOB Carter. Even in a kilt. He has that baritone warmth that men share when they assume...

By Robyn Williams