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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...
Into self-imposed exile
IN 1929, ANTHONY Martin Fernando, an Aborigine, appeared at the Old Bailey in London charged with attempted assault. He...
Tarnished dreams of new beginnings
IN THE LATE 19th century, a radical British journalist and his American wife set off from Sydney Harbour, sailing...
A never ending hoax
For many years after the Second World War, even into the 1970s, there were rumours circulating in Brisbane about...
Voodoo politics
IN THE '70s and early '80s, Terry Forrester was an inveterate street marcher who took every opportunity to put...
The third and fourth countries
IN THE FRONTISPIECE of my next novel, La Tombe de Thu Le, I have used a quote from the...
Busted
THERE'S A BANGING on the front door. So early on a Monday? Don't they know I'm a student? I...
Justine and Col and Mr Heggarty
The mango trees are behind Mr Heggarty's milking shed. I can see them from the road, three dark cut-out...
A long way back – reflections of a genealogical tourist
Earlier this year I made a brief visit to my mother's family homeland in Germany on the edge of...
Where the wild things are
WHEN WE WERE moving from Sydney to Brisbane this year, people suggested different things I'd need to get used...
