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'If I am what I have and if what I have is lost, who then am I?' – Erich...

By Nicolas Low

THERE HAVE BEEN so many droughts in Australia since European settlement that it's a wonder they command so much...

HESIOD MIGHT HAVE written the script. The 2004 summer was Greece's last Golden Age. The Athens Olympics focused the...

By Jorge Sotirios

WINTER IS A hectic time on Pitcairn Island: the arrowroot crop is ready for harvesting, as are the wild...

By Kathy Marks

'NO RUSH.'The obstetrician sounds dead tired through the phone.Shaving foam is clinging to my cheeks, and I bend the...

By Sidney Dekker

IN AUGUST 2003, Prime Minister John Howard visited the community of Aurukun and attended the annual Cape York Land...

By Noel Pearson

THEY WERE THERE for months, small shapes embedded in the mud at first, and then, as the mud was...

By Ashley Hay

ON A SULTRY mid-December day an Indonesian fishing boat manned only by its skipper chugged out of the port...

By Sally Neighbour

OVER THE PAST few years we have experienced a massive and sustained attack on the form of Australia's cities....

By Patrick Troy

IN A SKYSCRAPER on Ann Street, Brisbane, behind the sandstone City Hall clock tower, and a stone's throw from...

By Matthew Condon

The she-oak (casuarina) is a melancholy kind of tree, with feathery leaves that hang in fringes from short stems......

By Matthew Condon

IN THE LEAD-UP to Christmas 2011 the usual mix of tension and excitement was underpinned by a new level...

By Julianne Schultz