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There is an odd disjunction in Australian public life at the moment – we know we are doing better...

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A good sport

IT'S ONE OF the most powerful images of the twentieth century: the Black Power salute at the 1968 Mexico...

By Jorge Sotirios

Diamonds, pearls and Kimberley girls

A DISTINCT AUSTRALIAN identity is developing in the west. It comes from the Pilbara as a product of the...

By Ellie Rennie

Building relationships to care for country

MAURICE BINSTEAD WOULD start to whistle every time we came into the Arcadia Valley in central Queensland. Roddy Smith...

By Rick Farley

On being Australian

EACH TIME I cross the Victoria Bridge at the top end of Queen Street I see, in an involuntary...

By John Kane

The good war

'Little Fuzzy-Wuzzies,Angels in Disguise.The Christ-child's coloured messengers,Same as you or I.Colour doesn't matterIn the Saviour's Home.It's what you say...

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Rum Corps to white-shoe brigade

AUSTRALIA HAS MORE land per capita than any other continent.[i] When the great European powers set out to conquer the...

By Peter Spearritt

Digging for yams

EMILY IS TEACHING me. I am learning about Yams, and so much more. My teacher, Emily Kam Ngwarray, died...

By Lois Calvert

Turning the tide of history

Our relationship to the ground is, culturally speaking, paradoxical: for we appreciate it only in so far as it...

By Ann Genovese

Red Dog

IT was a lazy Saturday morning. The winter sun was throwing a pallid wash through the lounge-room window. I...

By Elizabeth Bryer

What’s driving suburban Australia? Fear in the tank, hope on the horizon

MIKE MOORE'S RECENT Oscar-winning documentary, Bowling for Columbine, depicted an America in the thrall of fear, largely of itself. Ostensibly...

By Brendan Gleeson

Finding a voice

'The meek don't inherit the earth,' – Senator Tony Mulvihill, 7 July 1994ON 10 JUNE 1994, a 65-year-old Chinese...

By Helen Fong