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Wheat, wages and weapons
TWELVE KILOMETRES WEST of Melbourne’s central business district lies Sunshine, a growing urban centre that once housed Australia’s largest...
Memory and migration
AS PART OF its politics of memory, the European Union has expended considerable effort creating a transnational and unifying...
Underwog
Journalist, author and political commentator George Megalogenis has made a unique contribution to Australian conversations about migration, politics and...
A seat at the table
YANIS WATCHES ME intently as I talk – I am grateful. An attentive audience can never be anticipated in Athens,...
Definition: wog (n); a thing
A wog is a word for a thing a polliwog, a golliwog a black-face doll – a sailor who has not crossed the...
The signal line
GEO AND WES didn’t talk on the fifteen-minute drive from the airport, although that in itself wasn’t unusual. When...
Out of time
MY DESIRE TO live in Rome germinated on a European holiday almost twenty years ago. I exited Trastevere train station,...
Creatures
Translated from the original Italian by Julia Anastasia Pelosi-Thorpe I Nothing flimsier, nothing easier: time is lost if I believe we’ll have...
At the Russian restaurant
Listen to Lee Kofman reading ‘At the Russian restaurant’. AT MY REQUEST, Slavik is taking me to a Russian restaurant in the heart...
Island stories
SANDY AND BERYL Stone had ‘a really lovely night’s entertainment’ one Tuesday in Melbourne in the late 1950s – according...
Refugium
THIS IS HOW it began for those in flight: with the scent of the sea, the sun playing on...
Aplonis fusca
sing me champagne from the windows sing me a child out of doors sing me pollen on kitchen chairs and straws that...
