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GIL JAMIESON SAT looking over Three Moon Flat, a shotgun across his sarong-covered knee as the sound of the...

By Phil Brown

IN THE LATE 1960s, the peripatetic and mercurial Australian artist Donald Friend found something of the happiness he had...

REGARDLESS OF WHO succeeds George W. Bush, the incumbent US president will have to deal with an emboldened Pentagon,...

IT'S 1979 AND I'm 15, fucked up and restless. My mother and I are living alone after years of...

By Meera Atkinson

ON COMING TO office in 2001, George W. Bush encapsulated his administration's intended approach to foreign policy in a...

By John Kane

KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN, THE controversial German composer, once described the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 as "the greatest work...

By Martin Leet

I WAS AN accidental tourist. I travelled to Japan to see my daughter, Nora, who – like many young...

By Rosaleen Love

DARWIN IS COMING up somewhere ahead, in the dark. Thirty hours semicircling the Earth to get here, in which...

By Robyn Davidson

Winner, The 2007 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism, Social Equity JournalismWinner, 2007 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, The Alfred...

By Frank Moorhouse

IT WAS JUST a skirmish in the "war on terror", but its symbolic weight was much greater. Books were...

By Julianne Schultz

WHEN I WAS at primary school in Earlwood, a solid western suburb of Sydney built largely for, and by,...

IF SHE HURRIES she may still eat today. She shuffles down the empty street, a small Vietnamese woman dressed...

By Dominique Wilson