The soapbox (For Bruce Murray)WARWICK LOVED HIS soapbox because standing on it he'd become the centre of attention for once, especially... By Phillip Edmonds
That prolific mother of strife he grand statue of Daniel O'Connell – the Liberator – interrupted the view of the city of Melbourne in... By Michael McKernan
The water person and the tree person FOR SOME REASON, Andy Melrose's wife had recently started describing him in company as a ‘water person'. Perhaps this... By Robert Drewe
Manufacturing ancient hatreds "Can the West, which takes its great invention, democracy, more seriously than the Word of God, come out against... By Tom Morton
A new land, 1976 SYDNEY. I LIKED its sound. I pressed my nose against the cold plastic window to look out over the... By Oren Siedler
Not crying wolf Robert Gelbard had no trouble getting in to see CIA chief George Tenet. As United States ambassador to Indonesia,... By Margot O’Neill
A letter to my father DEAR NEVILLE,I know you weren't that keen on poetry – apart from Henry Lawson's ‘Faces in the Street'– but... By Barry Hill
Never Never Dreaming WHEN I LOOKED at my father, I imagined Australia. In those first memories he is a tall figure in... By Virginia Duigan
Mungo memories ALONE IN MY parents' kitchen on a recent visit, I was drawn to the sheets of slides scattered on... By Jenny Bowler
Meat IF YA HEADING up north anyway, why don't ya try and get a job with the meat works up... By Wayne McLennan
Sharp hot fantasies of a better world We had come down now to the warm south coast, to a small fishing village which I shall call... By Glyn Davis
Advance Australia green ON OCTOBER 1, 1988, at Bibbenluke near Cooma in the Snowy Mountains, a feral fish was declared an Australian... By James Woodford