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Afterwards
The body of Raleigh May, sixty-seven, lies in an open casket in the chapel of the Craig-Hurtt Funeral Home...
A recombinant history of Australian camels
The image of the camel is consistently drawn from Australian archives (consistency, like visibility, is one of Calvino’s ‘six memos’ or values he deemed crucial to literature as it moved into our millennium).
The Backstory #3: Returning fire to Australia’s landscapes
I speak to Aboriginal people on the ground about how they are reconnecting with traditional practices that have been used for thousands of years to prevent destructive fires and revitalise the bush landscape.
Create, destroy, reset
Click here to listen to Editor Ashley Hay read her introduction ‘Create, destroy, reset’. WE’RE TERRAFORMING, MY son and me. We’ve done this in...
The crimson line
Trent Parke’s latest series, The Crimson Line, continues his fascination with the transformative powers of light – particularly the...
‘A poem is a unicycle’
IN LATE 2020, Barbara Kingsolver published How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons), her first poetry collection in...
Eating for the climate
IF THERE’S ONE area in which the battle for the food dollar has met the battle for the climate...
Tales from the frontline
Melbourne: 31 August 2020 Covid cases: Australia 25,746; [i] World 25,162,019[ii] Atmospheric carbon dioxide: 414.48 ppm[iii] LIKE PRETTY MUCH everyone lucky enough...
Returning value to profit
AS THE CONSCIENTIOUS middle child of Holocaust survivors, my objectives as a young man were narrow and conventional: to...
Verdigris
COPPER IS AMONG the earliest of metals to be used by humans, and has been smelted, cast and moulded...
The professor and the word
Every thinker thinks one thought. The researcher needs constantly new discoveries and inspirations, else science will bog down and...
Three poems
How to have a child Begin on the day you decide you are fit to carry on. Begin with a quailing heart for here...
