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I'M DEAF. MY being deaf seems to be significant to other people. "Why do you speak like that?" This...

By Donna McDonald

WHEN BB TAUNTED me with continual cries of "You killed Jesus, you killed Jesus ... " I had no...

By Peter Davis

IN AN INTERVIEW with the vocational guidance officer sent out on the rural circuit during my final year of...

By Jena Woodhouse

I'M ONE OF the lucky ones. Part of the baby-boom generation, I benefited from postwar economic prosperity and government...

By Ross Homel

GIRLS TALK IS a classic Dave Edmunds song, penned by Elvis Costello, and it captures in a few verses...

By Meera Atkinson

ON JUNE 2004, the Prime Minister, John Howard, and the former Federal Minister for Education, Brendan Nelson, announced a...

By Anna Clark

IN MID-WINTER, NEW Brunswick is a long, cold train ride from Penn Station in Manhattan. The New Jersey transit...

By Glyn Davis

About suffering they were never wrong,The Old Masters; how well, they understoodIts human position....– WH AudenABOUT GLAMOUR THEY were...

By Helen Elliott

IF YOU GET a casual job as an academic at an Australian university, you think you are very lucky...

By Inez Baranay

IN MY TEENS I revered writers. I hung onto their words the way my classmates hung onto marijuana. I...

By Lee Kofman

"LET'S PLAY HANGMAN," says my eleven year-old daughter, Claire. Heavy rain is falling and so we settle at the...

By Jeff McMullen

IN 1991, I did something that once would have been beyond imagination. I enrolled my eldest child in an...