Journal
Articles
Passing judgement
THE TWO JUDGES sat on an enclosed veranda. The apartment at the end of the peninsula looked over the...
Circles of connection, or blowing in the wind
AUSTRALIA IS OFTEN seen from abroad, and at home, as a land with no clear cultural core – apart...
Icing and salt
AFTER THE INITIAL impact, Eiji's feet slide backwards, carving tracks through the salted clay until his toes grip the...
What makes us tick?
THERE HAVE BEEN valiant attempts over centuries and across continents to try to understand the prevailing mood of the...
Writing, standing on your head
THE WRITER NEEDS a body to perform writing. The body is a text written by thought, experience, genetics, culture,...
Without country
THE RIGGER COILED the line of wet rope around his hand, reeling in the sea crate they were using...
Finding order in art and life
PHYSICISTS, WE ARE often told, dream of formulating a single equation to explain the world. Yet the fundamental law...
The sun rising
'THIS IS HOW it was, when I saw you for the first time.'When Mackenzie Lachlan butted up against the...
Steeplechase
MY SISTER LIKES ponies and showjumping and arenas. Sometimes I jump with her because she wants me to. I...
The farmer
IT WAS THE farmer who built the shack, when he was a young man, long before I was born....
Our bodies
THINK OF ABORIGINAL bodies. Think of Cathy Freeman, standing and waiting on the track in Sydney, lean, still, and...
The Fever
THE DUSK SETTLES over a day in late autumn. The sun sets above the East Henan plain, a blood-red...
