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Boom! Excursions in fantasy land

MIDLAND: RECENTLY I watched a small group of drunks on the pavement across from the Midland library swinging punches...

By Julienne van Loon

Respect versus division

FOR SOME YEARS, once upon a time, I lived in a little house on a cliff in a coal-mining...

By Julianne Schultz

Beyond the Brisbane Line

IT MAY BE the product of living in the second most southerly continent, but every generation of Australians has...

By Julianne Schultz

The other side of the river

DAVID HAD THE address scribbled on the margin of an article he wanted to finish reading in the car. Ellen...

By Georgia Blain (1964–2016)

Night rescue

OUT OF THE fixed constellation of his friends, B_ falls to earth like a small white stone. He is...

By Stephen Moline

A preposterous life

SATIRE REACHES THE pinnacle of success when it becomes the thing being satirised. Such is the achievement of Kath &...

By Simon Caterson

City life, country living

THE US TELEVISION show Outback Jack is a strange twist on the modern obsession with "reality". Jack, a rustic Aussie bloke...

By Daniel Flitton

Habits of inclusion

AUSTRALIA'S UNLIKELIEST TELEVISION presenter, Peter Cundall, recently conducted viewers of the ABC TV's Gardening Australia on a tour of his garden...

By Kay Ferres

Welcome to my world

THE CHILEAN SUPREME Court last year handed down a ruling stripping the 88-year-old former dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, of...

By Kevin Bannon

Purchase

Selected for Best Australian Stories 2007They had their hearts set on purchasing a piece of land up north, but...

By John Kinsella

Something to remember me by

IN THE SUMMER of 1992, the Aboriginal band Sunrize, a group of heavy rock musicians from Maningrida in Arnhem...

By Mark Mordue

Reap as you sow

Shortlisted, Queensland Media Awards, Freelance JournalismA succession of government inquiries dating back to the 1934 McCulloch Report in New...

By Bernie Matthews