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Sacraments of guilt
IT’S THE LAST Tuesday of May and the coldest day of the year so far. The temperature has fallen...
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...
All things to all people
ON 16 JULY 2020, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the launch of the $2 billion JobTrainer Fund. The media...
Top of the class
IT WAS A strange moment, becoming aware that a school I had attended was classified as ‘disadvantaged’. I was...
Vestigial
THE BOY RAN past the house just as Sherwin held the clothes pegs up to the line. The sheet...
High resolve
So I taught myself to run again (again). It’s all about the playlist. Plus the way the cold forgives us, given...
Performance enhancement
IT’S A STINKING hot Saturday morning in December and I’m dressed as an elf at a rundown shopping mall...
Dramatics
ANNIE DOESN’T RECOGNISE the old teacher at first glance, not consciously. She only registers a vague sense of disorientation...
Pass it on
It was part of my assignments that I had to collect stories from the elders and then illustrate them and so on. I could draw and paint, and I taught everybody how to paint. And now they’ve taken the limelight from me, the young ones! I was doing it on purpose to get others to come up and stand on their own two feet, to start doing this.
Escape rooms
Click here to listen to Editor Ashley Hay read her introduction ‘Escape Rooms’. THE RAINBOW LORIKEET – a fledgling, brilliant green with texta-colour highlights...
Character
Character matters in all facets of our lives, but seldom is it more consequential than in politics and political leadership. Even before the rise of Donald Trump, there was a widespread consensus in American politics that presidential character was just as important as intellect, organisational and policy capacity, media and presentational skills, and a vision for the nation’s future.
Connection
Amid the posturing and tumult shone three moments of clarity that highlighted the gulf between cynical efforts to divide Australians and the leadership needed to bind the nation together at a time of unprecedented uncertainty and challenge. Each revealed the potential to rediscover and reconnect with the ‘holding centre’ that has defined Australian politics...
