End sex ALICE TURNS HER key stealthily, like they're breaking into someone else's life. She pulls Drew after her, kicking the... By Rose Michael
A Femocrat’s Story, 1970s Style IN APRIL 1973, five months after Gough Whitlam was elected prime minister, a woman I admired for the talks... By Sara Dowse
Home is where the heart is COME CLOSER WHILE I tell you this. Let me whisper in your ear. No one likes a dissenter. No... By Cassandra Atherton
Facsimile days I TOOK TO to running. I ran a lot – shaved nearly five minutes off my best time over seven... By Nick Marland
Songlines and faultlines K: Kartiya, desert term for white personK: Kumanjayi, word that substitutes for a name that can't be spokenWHEN K RANG the... By Kim Mahood
Like a Christmas cake SHE WAKES IN darkness, shivering, a sudden chill on her back like the breath of a ghost. She lies... By
Tears of the sun Selected for Best Australian Essays 2010 AS YOU FLY out of Perth, heading east, the wheat and sheep country cushioning... By Kathy Marks
Changing land: mining the Darling Downs IN THE PRE-DAWN, as Dave Crabtree drives the forty kilometres out of Dalby to the massive power station he's... By Ann Arnold
Joining the pack WE SIT AROUND the kitchen table like Jesus and his disciples, except there are only six of us and... By Helena Pastor
The angry country Selected for Best Australian Essays 2010THIS IS WHAT we know about the death of Jai Morcom.On the morning of... By Melissa Lucashenko
From dwarves to giants A SUMMER EVENING on the veranda of the old Minmi pub, a cooling uphill breeze, the beers cold and... By Sharyn Munro
Cashing in the chips NAGGING CURIOSITY ABOUT where the rivers originated lured Australia's great European explorers beyond the Great Dividing Range. Equipped with... By Julianne Schultz