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Time to don the bat wings
THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY has continued as it started – jittery and uncertain. As the countdown to the new century...
Manna for the cassowaries
IN FEBRUARY 2011 Cyclone Yasi crashed, like Thor's hammer, into Far North Queensland's (FNQ) Cassowary Coast. Yasi was classified...
Fire words
To understand why our language about fire is so poor, it is interesting to look at a history of how this language developed.
Adapting for hope
THERE IS A single large tree on the wind-whipped salt-lake flats, the most marginal of marginal land. There are...
What does Fukushima mean?
'Harrisburg, oh Harrisburg, the plant is meltin' down, the people out in Harrisburg are gettin' out of town. But when the...
Ground cover
THAT WAS THE day the garbage didn't get picked up, and the day the house across the road burned...
Surviving peace
‘We should kill our pasts with each passing day. Blot them out, so that they will not hurt. Each...
Tragic intimacy
BY ANYONE'S RECKONING, World War I was an unprecedented, unmitigated disaster. Of course, it matters greatly who won or...
The day the earth shook
BEING IN THE middle of the Christchurch earthquake was the most frightening experience of my life. It was a...
The sleepers (from the Futures Museum)
resin, oils, human hair, camphor solution (potassium nitrate, ammonium chloride, water, ethanol, camphor), fishing wireIn this display the artisthas...
Auntie May, 1953
Twenty years ago last Augustthey had me running down the platform,howling in that flannel dress,those two from the ‘Protection'...
Crime scene investigation
The car deaf as a hearsefrom the screaming weightof all that came before,we drive down a tarmac slashedby white...
