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Attention, Ladies and Gentlemen: a message from the Sydney University Christian Evangelical Union. Make sure you leave Tuesday 1pm...

By Eliza Harvey

I DON'T USUALLY like cheery people – those full of gratitude for life's little miracles and small blessings. I...

By Maria Tumarkin

A human being survives by his ability to forget.– Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma TalesIN THE PAST decade or so, no...

By Gideon Haigh

ABOUT TEN KILOMETRES south of Hungerford, I get out of the car and start walking. Hungerford sits on the...

By Bruce Elder

AUSTRALIA'S SYSTEM OF government has passed its use-by date in too many respects. The federal arrangements are dysfunctional, ministerial...

By George Williams

Why should I feel discouraged, why should the shadows fall? Why should my heart be lonely, and long for...

By Hugh Mackay

WHAT DOES AUSTRALIA look like? In the 1950s a school-aged Hilary McPhee, in an essay on what Australia would...

By Chris Wallace

I'M LYING PROPPED up on one elbow at Kyeemagh beach, looking out over Botany Bay. I love this utterly...

By Tom Morton

ST ANDREW'S CATHEDRAL, the symbolic heart of the Sydney Anglican Diocese, has an enviable location in the centre of...

By Muriel Porter

ON THE VARNISHED surface of the table at which I sit to write someone has scored the three quarter...

By Kim Mahood

Selected for Best Australian Political Writing 2009LIKE ALL GREAT speeches, the Tenterfield Oration delivered on October 24, 1889 –...

By Geoff Gallop

‘A WRITER,' DECLARED the novelist Thomas Mann, ‘is someone for whom writing is harder than it is for other...

By Peter Cochrane