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HALFWAY BETWEEN DARWIN and Tennant Creek – around 500 clicks each way – there's a wide spot in the...

I am a human being and hope to be neither saint nor scoundrel. As one who has spent his...

I was engaged in conversation with the Governor-General and his wife after the dinner when an elderly lady, apparently...

By Bob Wurth

ONE WINTER'S DAY at the end of the '50s, in the Melbourne suburbs of my childhood, I received in...

By Allan Gyngell

GIL JAMIESON SAT looking over Three Moon Flat, a shotgun across his sarong-covered knee as the sound of the...

By Phil Brown

IN THE LATE 1960s, the peripatetic and mercurial Australian artist Donald Friend found something of the happiness he had...

REGARDLESS OF WHO succeeds George W. Bush, the incumbent US president will have to deal with an emboldened Pentagon,...

IT'S 1979 AND I'm 15, fucked up and restless. My mother and I are living alone after years of...

By Meera Atkinson

ON COMING TO office in 2001, George W. Bush encapsulated his administration's intended approach to foreign policy in a...

By John Kane

KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN, THE controversial German composer, once described the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 as "the greatest work...

By Martin Leet

I WAS AN accidental tourist. I travelled to Japan to see my daughter, Nora, who – like many young...

By Rosaleen Love

DARWIN IS COMING up somewhere ahead, in the dark. Thirty hours semicircling the Earth to get here, in which...

By Robyn Davidson