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Lives of the Australian undead
Even if it be better for certain individuals to govern, they should be made only guardians and ministers of...
A case for literary contamination
What I am now is an interesting deformity. I am not Asian and never will be. Even if I...
In the eye of the beholder
I WOULD NOT call Pasay a slum. Calling or not calling Pasay City a slum would assume the ability...
Decoyed by orthodoxy
Veritee watches the familiar sight of one or other of her parents' backs as it disappears. Separately or together....
A lasting sorrow
AUSTRALIANS ARE EAGER to learn ever more about the Australian side of the Gallipoli conflict, but not the Turkish...
Back to the avantgarde
EVERY PICTURE TELLS a story. Sometimes what happens around a picture can be as telling as the picture itself....
Living in a material world
Winner, 2005 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate This is not a comic-book...
Book without bonking
XIEZI (WEDGE) 001:[i] On the night of July 16, 2007, I received an email in Chinese from River, a...
Location, location, location
I WAS MORE tired than I'd ever been when the fleet of black Volkswagens arrived. We watched them pull...
Songs of childhood
How do you make a terrorist? I can't pretend to know the definitive answer to that question, and I'm...
Seeing and making the future
IT IS PROBABLY just as well that we cannot see into the future; it would make the present even...
The magic door to Judaism
I GREW UP in a Jewish Orthodox family and my first memories of Kabbalah flow from my childhood in...
