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Halfway through the days of our lives
A FEW WEEKS ago, I almost killed my baby. I was driving out of Brisbane's CBD, on a steep...
Mending a broken link
I'M CELEBRATING MY mother. Pink tissue paper and ribbon fold and tie over the gift: foot lotion. Lavender scented....
The Australian way
THE MORNING AFTER the Cronulla riot dawned cool, calm and clear. Early light caught surfers lolling on the small...
The vulnerability threshold
"WE TELL OURSELVES stories in order to live." So begins The White Album, Joan Didion's collection of essays about the...
Not just any job
IT IS EITHER the best of times or the worst of times to be a young worker in Australia....
They’re not stupid girls
Maybe if I act like that, that guy will call me back,What a paparazzi girl, I don't wanna be...
Being political now
IN THE BEGINNING was the '60s. Or so we're told – the culture wars can be traced back to...
The lure of the domestic
CONVERSATIONS ABOUT AUSTRALIAN society with visitors of a certain political stripe inevitably end at the same point. No matter...
Raggedy men
WAR IS BIG business and I am at a conference about the business of war. It's being held on...
Life study
I USED TO be in love with Tracey Emin. She was bold, self-made and bolshie, and she didn't care...
Revenge of the geeks
THE TOMORROW PEOPLE now seems very "yesterday". It is fondly remembered as a poor man's Doctor Who – and as Doctor Who was notoriously...
The small sell
"We can't earn your respect so we're gonna buy it." – The Presets, at the Tsubi Jeans and Modular...
