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The dispossessed
IN MID-AFTERNOON JUST days after Christmas, finding a park in the small National Heritage town of Central Tilba, on...
Discovering the mother tongue
PHILOSOPHERS SAY INNER contradictions are a natural thing; they lie within the core of the human condition. I'd add...
Too blue
TAMWORTH'S TEN-DAY Jayco Country Music Festival is preceded by a ten-day Festival Countdown for those so excited about the...
Mud, mud glorious mud
SHE WAS COMING towards us with a broad smile, proffering a plate of golden round buns. She said they...
Daughters of the revolution
FOR FIVE YEARS from 1970 I pushed a stroller, with a baby or two or three, in passionate street...
The rise and fall of infant reflux
Selected for The Best Australian Science Writing 2012 AT THE DAWN of the twenty-first century Queensland infants were in the...
If wishes were fishes
I LISTLESSLY TRAWLED through endless canned quote pages, searching for a line that would capture my feelings and ideas...
In the corridor of uncertainty
IN OCTOBER, ALONG with the arrival of the first Christmas beetle and the distorted tunes of far-off Mr Whippy...
A new enlightenment
ANYONE WHO HAS worked in science for the past fifty years, as I have, has experienced many changes in...
Struggling in the face of complexity
THE FLOODS THAT swept through Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, causing death, injury and the destruction of homes,...
Media rules in the court of Carr
IT WAS A typical political fix. More designed to fit ministers' personalities, their power preferences and media agendas than...
Invisible innocence
IT IS HARD for most people to imagine being convicted of a crime they did not commit. Yet this...
