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Those who can induce you to believe absurdities can induce you to commit atrocities.– Voltaire"HE'S PARTY, I'M sure." My...

By Robyn Williams

A WRITER, AN actor. A mother, a daughter. The mother captured and lingered in the public memory when she...

By Sigrid Thornton

THE CURRENCY IN Australia is comedy. We rely on it, we use it in every situation, we convert everything...

By John Marsden

THE FIRST TIME I recall being described by the term "people like us" I was quite taken aback. I...

By Julianne Schultz

I WRITE TONIOGHT in a hotel room supplied by two congenial governments, having sent away the evening's inevitable prostitute....

By Patrick Holland

Selected for Best Australian Stories 2007IN THE MORNING we woke and it was like all the mornings we'd imagined....

By Shane Strange

Catching communistsI REMEMBER VERY very well the words the president used. We were all summoned to a big hall....

IT'S ELEVEN O'CLOCK in the morning but the tunnels below Seoul Town Hall are deserted; window grilles closed over...

By Charlotte Teek

IT IS A cold winter evening and the visitors' lounge at the Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre feels like the...

By Peter Mares

MY TAXI WOUND through the early evening traffic, moving like a snake through tall grass. Packed buses towered over...

By Wayne McLennan

GEORGE W BUSH Snr berates Iran for newk-ya-lah ambitions. George Bush enunciated the Saddam in Hussein like he'd just lipped too much salt...

By Larry Buttrose

WHEN THE TINY Airnorth plane landed at Dili airport I knew something about campaigning but little about Timorese politics....

By Jim Chalmers