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Beyond the daydream, the reality
THANKS TO THE devotion of women's magazines and television cameras, the Mary Donaldson fairytale is well known: Tassie girl...
How feminism lost its street cred
'I'M NOT A feminist" is the first line of many a contemporary discussion of gender. The disclaimer isn't even...
Everyday violence
A FRIEND OF mine who suffered from schizophrenia once told me of her intention to write a travel guide...
Confusions of an economist’s daughter
Dad wore his "It's time" badge with its rusted pin to our small country school to vote. He wore it to irritate the National Party voters and Christian fundamentalists whose community was ours. But it was important not to be selfish, our parents said, so we were a Labor-voting family. We were lucky because life was comfortable, but others were not so lucky and deserved a break.
Snapshots
BEN BASTER ARRIVED mid-afternoon in the city that his guidebook called an "exotic and teeming tropical metropolis". After a...
Once a professional token youth
IT'S OFFICIAL. AS of August 2006, my last youth-related engagement ends. For nearly a decade, I have worked on...
The bridge
And now, what's going to happen to us without barbarians?They were, those people, a kind of solution.C.P. Cavafy, Waiting...
Searching for the next big thing
MORE THAN HALF a century ago, Arthur Koestler wrote that much of what you needed to know about a...
Yangon in shades of grey
IN ONLY ONE South-East Asian city I have visited can visitors walk around without fear of crime. The streets...
Downstream
Whatever lies under a stoneLies under the stone of the worldThe Green Centipede – Douglas Stewart A MONTH AFTER the funeral...
Bush vs Guardian: 1–0
IT STARTED AS "a quixotic idea dreamed up last month in a north London pub", wrote Ian Katz, feature...
Flame bugs on the Sixth Island
Selected for Best Australian Stories 2006 GO DOWN TO the rock pools when the evening tide is out and there...
