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Footpath rage during lockdown #6
The bicycles have me huddling Mum into the garden to avoid their maskless legitimacy. Keep the rules the man...
Real fobs
Listen to Winnie Dunn read her short story ‘Real fobs’. ONLY BOGANS AND dumb ethnics go to Western Sydney University. Real fobs won’t...
‘I will not be doing it again’
I’VE BEEN TEACHING at Australian universities for twenty-five years now. I began when I was twenty-seven – I’m now...
University material
JEFFREY AND MY mother were together for three years. I lived with them for their final year, when I...
The Whitlam legacy
In this first of a series of intergenerational exchanges and reflections on the links to and legacies of the...
Climbing the opportunity ladder
IN THE LATE summer of 1912–13 a new public high school was established in Parramatta, on the western outskirts...
Tech future, human rights
IT SEEMS AS if we’re experiencing unending crises, rolling over us at such pace that we can’t catch our...
Sacraments of guilt
IT’S THE LAST Tuesday of May and the coldest day of the year so far. The temperature has fallen...
All things to all people
ON 16 JULY 2020, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the launch of the $2 billion JobTrainer Fund. The media...
High resolve
So I taught myself to run again (again). It’s all about the playlist. Plus the way the cold forgives us, given...
Vestigial
THE BOY RAN past the house just as Sherwin held the clothes pegs up to the line. The sheet...
Top of the class
IT WAS A strange moment, becoming aware that a school I had attended was classified as ‘disadvantaged’. I was...
