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Women who have and have not
Van was told to do "hot tea" with the man, which meant she had warm tea in her mouth...
Desert field of dreams
IN THE DISTANCE, the rows of high-rise towers on Dubai's infamous Sheikh Zayed Road glitter; ornaments on the edge...
Ants on highways
GOOGLE AND MUNGO. I am sitting at my desk staring at Google Earth. My computer is short of memory...
Once were Westies
AS A GUEST on a western Sydney community radio program recently, I noted the ease with which the young...
Community despite geography
FOR AN INCREASING number of us among the million in our diaspora, the penny has dropped, big time. Australia...
Waking from the dream
Fire in the heavens, and fire along the hills,and fire made solid in the flinty stone,thick-mass'd or scatter'd pebble,...
Imagining an international Australia
AUSTRALIANS RIGHTLY SPEND much time discussing multiculturalism, yet rarely speak of Australian internationalism. Over the last few decades, however,...
Calling Australia home
AUSTRALIA IS A quintessential immigrant society. With nearly a quarter of the population born in other countries, few nations...
Fluid cities create
WHAT MAKES A city culturally dynamic? What makes a city the sort of place that people want to visit,...
Under the global olive tree
AFTER A DIVERSION in a genre of grassroots social theorising with his work Identitées Meurtrières, Amin Maalouf comes back...
City dreamers
FOR THE FIRST time in history, the number of people living in urban areas has outstripped those in rural...
The year cities ate the world
IN 1853 GEORGES-Eugène Haussmann was given what a lesser man would have considered an impossible task – the transformation...
