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Life in death
AT THE AGE of twenty-nine, I was in my last year as a registrar in psychiatry at the University...
The challenge of genocide
THE HOLOCAUST CONTINUES to pose a challenge to history. In History, Memory and Mass Atrocity (Vallentine Mitchell, 2006), Holocaust...
Opting out
FOR MANY AUSTRALIANS, suicide is still a secret, shameful business. Like incest and child abuse, it doesn't happen to...
An idea whose time has come
TURNING SEVENTEEN IS important. It is an age when young people are beginning to experiment with being grown-ups –...
The trouble with empathy
No doubt the finite and meagre nature of our feelings does prevent us from extending our sympathies to those...
The rhetoric of reaction
RHETORIC WAS UNDERSTOOD by Aristotle to include those many, often refined, techniques of argumentation unavoidable in domains of life, such...
Who let the dogs out?
WILLY IS A young Palm Island boy, full of life and with more than a fair serve of natural...
The painter and the writer
JOANNA LOGUE HAS been responding to the landscape around her home, Essington Park, near Oberon on the western slopes...
Ties that bind
Shortlisted, 2006 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, John Curtin Prize for JournalismWHAT DID WE think we were doing, the day...
God’s only excuse
Those who can induce you to believe absurdities can induce you to commit atrocities.– Voltaire"HE'S PARTY, I'M sure." My...
Imagination the everyday art
A WRITER, AN actor. A mother, a daughter. The mother captured and lingered in the public memory when she...
On feeling superior
THE CURRENCY IN Australia is comedy. We rely on it, we use it in every situation, we convert everything...
