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Selected for The Best Australian Political Writing 2008WHEN THE HISTORICAL datelines are being drawn up, the year 2005 may...

By David Burchell

IF WE TURN the map upside down and start Australian history where its documentation properly begins – in the...

By Regina Ganter

IN THE DAYS when seatbelts were optional and parents smoked in the car without a second thought, Adelaide was...

By Tracy Crisp

ACROSS NORTHERN AND and central Australia there are special places recognised as sacred sites with varying degrees of restriction...

By Paul Taçon

FEDELE FRANZONI IS on the edge. He lives with his family in Hoppers Crossing, in the outer tract of...

GATJIL DJERRKURA LIVED the last decade of his life moving between two worlds – the world of Canberra politics...

By Mark McKenna

NOSTALGIA FOR AN assimilated nation haunts public debate on national identity and nationhood, as well as related issues of...

By Anna Haebich

AS A WIRADJURI woman with an education, access to health, employment opportunities and a platform, I am incredibly privileged....

By Anita Heiss

IT WAS MY tenth journey to the island of Sri Lanka. Elephants had been the focus on all my...

By Peter Davis

I FIRST MET Zarah Ghahramani on Tehran's Revolution Boulevard in June 2003, just down the road from the northern...

By Robert Hillman

ON MARCH 31 this year, a cultural performance was organised to raise funds for the tsunami victims in Sumatra....

By Dewi Anggraeni

AUSTRALIAN FICTION WRITERS have, until the last few decades, avoided settling in Canberra and writing about the city in...

By Dorothy Johnston