Articles Archive

Explorers, writers and other creative strangers

In homage to Lech Paszkowski and all creative strangersIN THE IMMIGRATION office in Paris, I had one chance to...

Howard’s way: northerly neighbours and western friends

IT IS VERY hard to find good, objective writing about the philosophies, motivations and political skills of this country's...

By Michael Wesley

The antidote of multiculturalism

Winner, 2008 Australasian Association of Philosophers Media PrizeA CRUEL IRONY has marked recent Australian social policy. Reconciliation between indigenous...

By Geoffrey Brahm Levey

Blow-ins on the cold desert wind

EACH YEAR I drive from my home near Canberra to the Tanami Desert and spend several months in an...

By Kim Mahood

Of the bomb

HE WAS A small old man and he sat alone in the tram. It was late July and very...

By Matthew Condon

The gap between work and choices

ON THE GRASS outside an abattoir on the Western Plains of New South Wales, in the dark, cool air,...

By David Peetz

The words to say it

THE FUNERAL WAS held in a rural town in New South Wales on the hottest day that year. I...

By Charlie Stansfield

Threat made manifest

DARWIN AIRPORT WAS the very first bit of Australia that I stepped onto as a nine-year-old migrant on the...

By Peter Stanley

Boom! Excursions in fantasy land

MIDLAND: RECENTLY I watched a small group of drunks on the pavement across from the Midland library swinging punches...

By Julienne van Loon

Respect versus division

FOR SOME YEARS, once upon a time, I lived in a little house on a cliff in a coal-mining...

By Julianne Schultz

Beyond the Brisbane Line

IT MAY BE the product of living in the second most southerly continent, but every generation of Australians has...

By Julianne Schultz

The other side of the river

DAVID HAD THE address scribbled on the margin of an article he wanted to finish reading in the car. Ellen...

By Georgia Blain (1964–2016)