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urgent biophilia
wrist-deep in dirt for something less particular satisfaction more tasty than butter lettuce wilting kale curling towards sun cabbage grubs chew chew chewing cabbage butterflies...
Blue crane
Listen to Inga Simpson read ‘Blue crane’. THOSE FIRST WEEKS Sally walked the beach, it went unread. She saw only a scallop of...
Provenance
THEY WENT TO a broker. Working their way through the maze of the air market felt beyond them, if...
The Biyula novels
We pause in front of a fallen eucalypt blackened trunk glistening with charcoal grids decode species-information: the time of its seeding and the...
Animal perspective
ERIN HORTLE: In Tasmania, there is a place where female octopuses emerge from the water and make their way...
Hail hydrogen
I’M SITTING IN the passenger seat of a Hyundai Nexo on a tree-studded Canberra street. It’s stopped to reverse...
Qualifying ode to experience
‘The world is all that is the case.’ Wittgenstein but not a newsfeed, not really... A person isn’t a noun or an...
Breaking new ground
IT WAS NEVER part of my plan to move to a farm. The landscape is Wiradjuri country, bought from...
Masters of the future or heirs of the past?
IN MAY 2020, the international mining giant Rio Tinto made a calculated and informed decision to drill 382 blast...
Generation Covid
APRIL IS MY favourite time of year in Melbourne. The weather is comparatively stable and the days warm, richly...
It’s more than just the fruit
MANGOES ARE DEEPLY embedded in my childhood. Even now the smell or taste of the fruit connects me instantly...
Food insecurity in uncertain times
Wistfully she muses on / Something bartered, something gone / Songs of old remembered days / The walkabout, the...
