Articles Archive

THE HOLOCAUST CONTINUES to pose a challenge to history. In History, Memory and Mass Atrocity (Vallentine Mitchell, 2006), Holocaust...

By John Docker

FOR MANY AUSTRALIANS, suicide is still a secret, shameful business. Like incest and child abuse, it doesn't happen to...

By Susan Varga

TURNING SEVENTEEN IS important. It is an age when young people are beginning to experiment with being grown-ups –...

By Julianne Schultz

No doubt the finite and meagre nature of our feelings does prevent us from extending our sympathies to those...

By David Burchell

RHETORIC WAS UNDERSTOOD by Aristotle to include those many, often refined, techniques of argumentation unavoidable in domains of life, such...

By Martin Krygier

WILLY IS A young Palm Island boy, full of life and with more than a fair serve of natural...

JOANNA LOGUE HAS been responding to the landscape around her home, Essington Park, near Oberon on the western slopes...

By Frank Moorhouse

Shortlisted, 2006 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, John Curtin Prize for JournalismWHAT DID WE think we were doing, the day...

By Margaret Simons

Those who can induce you to believe absurdities can induce you to commit atrocities.– Voltaire"HE'S PARTY, I'M sure." My...

By Robyn Williams

A WRITER, AN actor. A mother, a daughter. The mother captured and lingered in the public memory when she...

By Sigrid Thornton

THE CURRENCY IN Australia is comedy. We rely on it, we use it in every situation, we convert everything...

By John Marsden

THE FIRST TIME I recall being described by the term "people like us" I was quite taken aback. I...

By Julianne Schultz