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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...
The hanging garden
NOT SO LONG ago, I lived in paradise. A luxury apartment on the Gold Coast. I still remember waking...
The future from the bottom of a boat
THE HOUSES IN the estate are all the same. Low-slung brick with dry brown roofs and yards. The fences...
The echo-chamber
JØRN LOMBORG FLEW to Australia to provide "balance". In October 2003, just as the Kyoto debate was cranking up...
