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The fence
I AM SITTING on the white wooden-frame and wire fence that runs along one side of our house and...
Of Middle Eastern appearance
Selected for The Best Australian Political Writing 2008 "DO YOU EVER wish you were fully Aussie?" This question was posed...
Develop the north
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT WAS high on the Commonwealth agenda in the 1950s and 1960s, leading to such projects as the Snowy...
The exiled child
There have been many times in my life when people have come to negative conclusions about me, and many terms applied: juvenile delinquent, alcoholic, drug addict, drama queen, borderline personality disorder, self-destructive, hysteric, depressive, neurotic, phobic and hypochondriac. But I've discovered a new one, and according to the literature it may be at the heart of all the others: chronic trauma survivor.
Trying to find the sunny side of life
Selected for The Best Australian Political Writing 2008WHEN THE HISTORICAL datelines are being drawn up, the year 2005 may...
Turning the map upside down
IF WE TURN the map upside down and start Australian history where its documentation properly begins – in the...
Destination: Adelaide
IN THE DAYS when seatbelts were optional and parents smoked in the car without a second thought, Adelaide was...
Chains of connection
ACROSS NORTHERN AND and central Australia there are special places recognised as sacred sites with varying degrees of restriction...
Cracks in the veneer
FEDELE FRANZONI IS on the edge. He lives with his family in Hoppers Crossing, in the outer tract of...
A symbolic life
GATJIL DJERRKURA LIVED the last decade of his life moving between two worlds – the world of Canberra politics...
Retro-assimilation
NOSTALGIA FOR AN assimilated nation haunts public debate on national identity and nationhood, as well as related issues of...
On being invisible
AS A WIRADJURI woman with an education, access to health, employment opportunities and a platform, I am incredibly privileged....
