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AUSTRALIANS ARE EAGER to learn ever more about the Australian side of the Gallipoli conflict, but not the Turkish...

EVERY PICTURE TELLS a story. Sometimes what happens around a picture can be as telling as the picture itself....

Winner, 2005 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate This is not a comic-book...

XIEZI (WEDGE) 001:[i] On the night of July 16, 2007, I received an email in Chinese from River, a...

By Ouyang Yu

I WAS MORE tired than I'd ever been when the fleet of black Volkswagens arrived. We watched them pull...

By Michael Wesley

How do you make a terrorist? I can't pretend to know the definitive answer to that question, and I'm...

By Nick Earls

IT IS PROBABLY just as well that we cannot see into the future; it would make the present even...

By Julianne Schultz

I GREW UP in a Jewish Orthodox family and my first memories of Kabbalah flow from my childhood in...

By Lee Kofman

(For Bruce Murray)WARWICK LOVED HIS soapbox because standing on it he'd become the centre of attention for once, especially...

By Phillip Edmonds

he grand statue of Daniel O'Connell – the Liberator – interrupted the view of the city of Melbourne in...

By Michael McKernan

FOR SOME REASON, Andy Melrose's wife had recently started describing him in company as a ‘water person'. Perhaps this...

By Robert Drewe

"Can the West, which takes its great invention, democracy, more seriously than the Word of God, come out against...

By Tom Morton