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Selected for The Best Australian Science Writing 2014 AS SOON AS the midwife placed my newborn son on my belly,...

By Leah Kaminsky

Selected for The Best Australian Science Writing 2014AS A TEENAGER I read Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle and...

By Tom Griffiths

ON A FROSTY winter's afternoon in a coal town in the middle of the Hunter Valley, New South Wales,...

By Anna Rose

A DECADE AGO the first edition of Griffith REVIEW explored the challenges and contradictions of what we were told...

By Julianne Schultz

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

By Shakira Hussein

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