Articles Archive

She, poor lady, hath by sad experience learnt how good a thing it is never to quit one's native...

By Christine Zorzi

It is all but impossible to traverse modern Brisbane and not have your sexual potency called to account. Billboards...

By John Birmingham

Words are not meanings for a tree– Judith Wright, ‘Gum Trees Stripping' (1955) Queensland was a great place to grow...

By Matt Foley

In late 1989 it fell to me, the senior chalkie at the Brisbane Stock Exchange, to train my successor....

By Stuart Glover

The huge cop – they all seemed to be huge in Queensland in 1976 – rustled through my desk...

By Phil Brown

The story of the Russian poet's visit to Brisbane began with a dinner invitation from Kevin Windle, general editor...

By Craig Munro

The first forty-six years of my life were spent in Ipswich and Brisbane; the territory has imprinted itself at...

By Thomas Shapcott

Think Queensland and I immediately conjure apartheid births and prototypes, stolen Aboriginal wages, native title rise and fall, the National...

By Tara June Winch

Google ‘hidden Queensland' and you find tourism operators trade on the presumption that the state isn't an obvious destination...

Recently a woman of my acquaintance, a woman who writes but is not, she insists, ‘a writer', helped me...

By Nike Bourke

Iwas swerving around the road in a fashion that looks drunken to southerners, and I bet you they'd also...

By Will Elliott

Early Saturday morning was an odd time for dad to be mopping the porch. Stranger still was the fact...

By Trent Dalton