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AS I DRANK wine in my narrow South London garden with blaring reggae beats from three neighbourhood parties, I...

By Marian Edmunds

WITH A SWEEP of his arm, Dave Murray shows where the proposed dam would straddle the valley. Starting at...

By Peter Meredith

IT WAS A cry of many voices. It sounded like anger, or lament. It was past eleven o'clock on...

By Margaret Simons

In every book I ever read Of travels on the Equator A plague mysterious and dread Imperils the narrator...

By Jorge Sotirios

WALK AROUND THE Sydney city block bounded by Kent, Sussex, Napoleon and Erskine Streets and you are on top...

By James Woodford

ALTHOUGH AUSTRALIANS MAY be increasingly conscious of our unique, ancient, indigenous culture, the national psyche is very much attuned...

By Peter Doherty

The ‘new' stranger in Australia bears the burden of representing not only what ‘Australia' was but also what we...

By Adam Aitken

MARIAN IS AMERICAN, from Chicago. I've known her 15 years, ever since she arrived in Hong Kong. About five...

By Jane Camens

THE HUMAN MIND, when faced with the need to calculate figures higher than, say, the fingers of two hands,...

By Robyn Davidson

WE DIDN'T WANT to go. The Gold Coast was a place for holidays, not living. Annual baths of intense...

By Kate Fitzpatrick

I LEFT AUSTRALIA in 1988 with a bad conscience. Eighteen months earlier, the trustees of the National Gallery of...

MY FATHER IS George, a Greek refugee from Turkey. That requires some explanation. Until 1922, the western coastline of...

By Tony Maniaty