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EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Ritika is a first-generation Indian Australian who lives in Sydney's west. Asked about her views on Australia, she...

By Ien Ang

In any case history, insofar as it keeps alive the memory of past wrongs, is not helpful for the...

Selected for The Best Australian Political Writing 2008; Winner, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2008, The Alfred Deakin Prize for an...

By Marcia Langton

THE EXISTENCE OF of a vast landmass at the bottom of the southern hemisphere had entered European consciousness –...

By Julianne Schultz

THE SUICIDE BOMBER who carried out the September 9, 2004, attack on the Australian Embassy in Jakarta was Heri...

By Michael Wesley

THE CITY IN which I grew up was famed for its part in resisting the militant fundamentalism that swept...

By Michael Wilding

Children Beneath Our Skyafter a 'cartoon' by Michael LeunigThe sky was one of the redeeming features of the war–...

By Barry Hill

I and the public knowWhat all schoolchildren learn,Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return.– W H Auden THE...

By Julianne Schultz

ON THE DAY they launched Brotherly Love, the whole village accompanied them on the long descent to the bay....

By Arnold Zable

EMRE ALWAYS RISES at five. His palliasse has to be slid beneath the couch so that Frau Losberg might...

By Thomas Shapcott

WENT TO MY brother's new town house for dinner last night. Bro cooked up a fine dinner – sweet...

By Tom Cho

SHE STANDS AT the window, dropped into a jet-lagged dream. The street below is covered in snow. She knows...

By Meera Atkinson