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Night rescue

OUT OF THE fixed constellation of his friends, B_ falls to earth like a small white stone. He is...

A preposterous life

SATIRE REACHES THE pinnacle of success when it becomes the thing being satirised. Such is the achievement of Kath &...

City life, country living

THE US TELEVISION show Outback Jack is a strange twist on the modern obsession with "reality". Jack, a rustic Aussie bloke...

By Daniel Flitton

Habits of inclusion

AUSTRALIA'S UNLIKELIEST TELEVISION presenter, Peter Cundall, recently conducted viewers of the ABC TV's Gardening Australia on a tour of his garden...

By Kay Ferres

Welcome to my world

THE CHILEAN SUPREME Court last year handed down a ruling stripping the 88-year-old former dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, of...

By Kevin Bannon

Purchase

Selected for Best Australian Stories 2007They had their hearts set on purchasing a piece of land up north, but...

By John Kinsella

Something to remember me by

IN THE SUMMER of 1992, the Aboriginal band Sunrize, a group of heavy rock musicians from Maningrida in Arnhem...

By Mark Mordue

Reap as you sow

Shortlisted, Queensland Media Awards, Freelance JournalismA succession of government inquiries dating back to the 1934 McCulloch Report in New...

By Bernie Matthews

Black unlike me

A WINDSWEPT WINTER'S day in February 1992. The Decatur branch of the First Union Bank. Newly arrived in Atlanta,...

By Vincent Plush

Buried in the labyrinth

Shortlisted, The 2007 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism, Magazine Feature WritingThis is a story about the habits of...

By Margaret Simons

From big trees, more trees grow

The womb-like basin of Terania Creek, with its narrow cervix of an entrance, faces south. In its moist embrace...

By Nigel Turvey

Five acts of friendship

To fall in love is to create a religion with a fallible god. – BorgesAct I – THE Polish Girl...

By David Sornig