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Selected for The Best Australian Essays 2011ON MY LEFT index finger is a ring that fits snugly. It's been...

By Andrew Sant

MANILA WAS IN pitch darkness and gangs of soldiers roamed the streets arresting anyone who was foolish enough to...

By Paul Wilson

I HAVE STEPPED inside a replica of Leonardo da Vinci's cabinet of mirrors, and here I am, as I...

By Lloyd Jones

NEVER BEFORE IN human history has so much been known about so many by so many.The social media revolution...

By Julianne Schultz

THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION had scarcely begun to gather momentum when management consultants, alert as ever to an emerging opportunity,...

By Julianne Schultz

LIKE MOST OF the women I walked with in the park, I was renovating a house; getting it ready...

By Tess Brady

THE SUBURBS HAVE always held an important place in the Australian imagination. The space between what Henry Lawson referred...

By Alister Grieg

I remember leaving that place, looking over my shoulder and with my ears alert for the sound of the...

By Miriam Zolin

I GREW UP on an island in the Baltic Sea. It was flat and windswept, and I don't seem...

By Mette Jakobsen

THE EVIDENCE IS clear. The way we are living is not sustainable. In fact, I believe it does not...

By Ian Lowe

OUT FROM THE shoreline of Brisbane lies a scattering of islands. Each particular, each with a feeling of its...

By Pat Hoffie

TRAGIC OR COMIC, feathered or jewelled, Harlequin or Pierrot, all fiction is a masquerade.We writers adopt disguises: we flirt,...

By Jay Griffiths