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Winner, The 2007 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism, Social Equity JournalismWinner, 2007 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, The Alfred...

By Frank Moorhouse

IT WAS JUST a skirmish in the "war on terror", but its symbolic weight was much greater. Books were...

By Julianne Schultz

WHEN I WAS at primary school in Earlwood, a solid western suburb of Sydney built largely for, and by,...

IF SHE HURRIES she may still eat today. She shuffles down the empty street, a small Vietnamese woman dressed...

By Dominique Wilson

GLENN MACGREGOR'S HOUSE has stunning river and mountain views, neatly netted fig trees in the garden, and a collection...

By Natasha Cica

EARLY IN 1982, when I had just finished Fly Away Peter and was writing back and forth to my...

By David Malouf

THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS of New South Wales is a rural region with a reputation for city-style affluence. Most visitors,...

By Peter Meredith

YOU DON'T LOOK Chinese," said one of a small group of boys who had encircled me."I'm not," I said,...

By Phil Brown

If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you.– Bernard MalamudBROOKLYN LAUNDRY, 2002: Sometimes I am...

By Lee Kofman

IN THE NORTH of Queensland, at the cusp of the modern age, many singular events were recorded and others,...

By Patrick Holland

FROM THE BEGINNING to the end of my twenties, I hated Sydney. It was a city whose high prices...

By Lucy Lehmann

I FELT LIKE I should kiss her or hug her, but while I was still thinking she got in...

By Andrew Belk