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What’s this thing called sex?

I GOT TO know Bunty because of Dad. Reacting in shock, my father had put the house on the...

By Tangea Tansley

Wild coast

ALL THE TIME there was Piha, wonderful, free flying, fresh Piha with its knotty cliffs, black sand, wild beach,...

By Rosie Scott

The reluctant memoirist

She leaned across the picnic hamper, reaching out for my hearing aid in my open-palmed hand. I leaned back,...

By Donna McDonald

Limits to power

THE CATHOLIC CATECHISM of old commenced with the question "Who made the world?" The answer was unambiguous: "God made...

By Gerard Henderson

A party for Germaine

'LESBIANS DON'T BITE,' Margaret says. 'Not as a rule anyway.' She lifts the corners of her mouth with her...

By Julie Bowen Kearney

Can you write a history of yourself?

‘EVERY HISTORIAN SHOULD write an autobiography,’ wrote the historian AJP Taylor, introducing his own, A Personal History (1983). ‘The experience teaches...

By Sheila Fitzpatrick

Googling me, Googling you

IN FEBRUARY THE Macquarie Dictionary committee named ‘googleganger’ as its Word of The Year for 2010.[i] ‘Googleganger was a...

By Brent Balinski

Staffroom confidential

AT THIRTY-TWO I ran away from school. I left in the middle of second term. Severed all ties. Took...

By Cassandra Atherton

Hospice

You never tire of the sky,caught within the frame and sash,spun sugar, your tongue can almost tastebefore it melts...

By Laura Jan Shore

Challenge and promise of e-democracy

IN MAY 2001, Mark Latham, then a Labor backbencher in the Commonwealth House of Representatives, set up a website...

By John Kane, Haig Patapan

Heart’s dream

Only recently did it occur to me that she might have dreamt a different life, a creativity not bound...

By Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo

The blind side

WHEN GEORGE W Bush began looking for a running mate for his Republican Party ticket before the 2000 election, he...

By Matthew Ricketson