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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...
Finding a voice
'The meek don't inherit the earth,' – Senator Tony Mulvihill, 7 July 1994ON 10 JUNE 1994, a 65-year-old Chinese...
The Basin
JESS STOOD AT the edge of the dam holding her daughter's hand. She had said they were going to...
Not quite white in the head
EARTHSPEAKING? YOU WILL think of it as a big story, a national story. Native Title. Salinity. Landcare. Turn the...
Oxtales
Selected for Best Australian Stories 2012Howqua to Jamieson.My name is Nelson after the Pommy sailor who lost an eye...
The best in the world
WHEN WE REACHED the woodchop we looked at the line-up and knew it was the old boys – the...
Kartiya are like Toyotas
'Kartiya are like Toyotas. When they break down we get another one.' – remark by a Western Desert woman about...
Pissed off
AUSTRALIA, ANY CITY, Saturday night: red unsteady men in pastel shirts and designer sneakers have groping sweaty fists and...
Poetics of place
No society can make a perpetual constitution or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation.–...
Paradox of identity
'Make it Australian.' 'How?' 'If I knew it I'd be doing it.'– Alex Miller, Autumn Laing (Allen & Unwin,...
Home in the imagination
WE LIVE OUT our lives, most of us, in other people's houses. We had no say in their shapes,...
Cultural creep
TODAY IT WOULD be called a reality show, but in the early 1950s the Australian Broadcasting Commission's Incognito was...
