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Garden cities of tomorrow

A PROJECTED AUSTRALIAN population of thirty-six million people by 2050 is being touted as a figure to fear. The...

By Tone Wheeler

Confusion with numbers

THERE ARE RELATIVELY few places where a people from a diverse, secular society can come together to find common...

By Julianne Schultz

Journey to the spare world

I HAVE TO get to Lollipops by 3.30pm and it's not going well. Lollipops is a children's party venue...

By Natalie Corban

Dead Sea Psalms

The moon and sun cohabit the sky. The world turns.Outside the citadel, a child climbs the tamarisk.From the topmost...

By Jillian Pattinson

Sorry Rocks

At Uluruthe postman returns rocksthat look like they’ve beenchipped off a sunset.They arrive in padded bags,shoeboxes, take-away containersfrom all...

By Anna Krien

Circumstances

Lee Miller's Famous FotoShe was in the bathbeautifully readywhen the phone rang.Her boots, bloodedwith the mud of Auschwitz,stood to...

By CK Stead

Barry

Ringing on a Sunday yourLondon doorbell holding the bookour friend Max insistsyou must have by handI find you like...

By CK Stead

The field marker

OUR FATHER, WHO survived the Killing Fields, would never let me travel to South-East Asia when I was a...

By Alice Pung

Don Quixote in Shanghai

'GLAD YOU MADE it,′ said my friend. 'I cannot but believe,′ said I to myself, 'that when the history...

By Kate Holden

Study for the weather station

WE DIDN'T KNOW so much; we knew how to touch. We unpacked our boxes in the box on the...

By Luke Davies

Mind, body and age

ON THE DAY of my birth, Boxing Day, 1921, something seemed wrong in the small rented brick house in...

By Donald Horne (dec.)

Scapho is Greek for boat

WE HAVE PUSHED our way through the strong heat of Adelaide's hottest summer since nineteen-o-something to get here, but...

By Tracy Crisp