A new land, 1976 SYDNEY. I LIKED its sound. I pressed my nose against the cold plastic window to look out over the... By Oren Siedler
Not crying wolf Robert Gelbard had no trouble getting in to see CIA chief George Tenet. As United States ambassador to Indonesia,... By Margot O’Neill
A letter to my father DEAR NEVILLE,I know you weren't that keen on poetry – apart from Henry Lawson's ‘Faces in the Street'– but... By Barry Hill
Never Never Dreaming WHEN I LOOKED at my father, I imagined Australia. In those first memories he is a tall figure in... By Virginia Duigan
Mungo memories ALONE IN MY parents' kitchen on a recent visit, I was drawn to the sheets of slides scattered on... By Jenny Bowler
Meat IF YA HEADING up north anyway, why don't ya try and get a job with the meat works up... By Wayne McLennan
Sharp hot fantasies of a better world We had come down now to the warm south coast, to a small fishing village which I shall call... By Glyn Davis
Advance Australia green ON OCTOBER 1, 1988, at Bibbenluke near Cooma in the Snowy Mountains, a feral fish was declared an Australian... By James Woodford
The new campus ideology Attention, Ladies and Gentlemen: a message from the Sydney University Christian Evangelical Union. Make sure you leave Tuesday 1pm... By Eliza Harvey
Life in translation I DON'T USUALLY like cheery people – those full of gratitude for life's little miracles and small blessings. I... By Maria Tumarkin
Dry rations A human being survives by his ability to forget.– Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma TalesIN THE PAST decade or so, no... By Gideon Haigh
In Lawson’s tracks ABOUT TEN KILOMETRES south of Hungerford, I get out of the car and start walking. Hungerford sits on the... By Bruce Elder