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I AM OF course no stranger to celebrity. "Famous name," the lady at the library greets me when I...

By Michael Wilding

I'M THINKING OF of a long weekend in Margaret River, of a heater for the lounge room. I'm thinking...

By Rachel Robertson

AS BARACK OBAMA never tires of saying, America is a country where ‘ordinary people can do extraordinary things'. In...

I AM NOT a star but I am famous in Biloela, where I grew up, and all fame is...

THIS IS THE story of George, who thinks art can change the world. To do this, he tells a...

ON FOOT, TRUDGING through the early January snow, freezing in minus-10-degree misery and trying to negotiate my way across...

By Daniel Flitton

BEFORE CHLOROFORM WAS was discovered in the mid-nineteenth century, women had no relief in childbirth. They died during forceps...

I HAVE HEARD some significant gossip about the Howard Government Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock. Or rather, since I heard it...

By Margaret Simons

THE UNIQUELY AUSTRALIAN colloquialism ‘secret women's business' has taken on the character of an incantation, often unrelated to Aboriginal...

By David Linton

Shortlisted, 2009 John Button Prize, Essay Advancing DebateEARLY THIS YEAR I was approached by many young women, mothers, grandmothers,...

By Marcia Langton

WHATEVER THEIR PARTIES or programs, prime ministers and premiers eventually get angry at the media. They complain of superficial...

By Nancy Sikes

WHAT IS IT to be naked? To others. And to ourselves. I suppose most of us know nakedness from...

By Barry Hill