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Manufacturing a co‑operative future
DRIVING INTO MORWELL, on the long highway from Melbourne, the first things you see are the smokestacks of the...
No limits
I am eleven years old. My brother Ben (three years and three days younger) has already been a registered player for four seasons at our local club, Albany Creek Excelsior (ACE). Every day we match each other in the backyard. I attend his games jealously, playing around with a ball on the sideline and, yes, maybe showboating my juggling a little bit at half-time in the hope someone will notice me and insist I should be placed in a team.
The future
For a moment he was given his future: a prophetic pulse racing to the horizon of his life and washing it...
Home, together, a family
APPARENTLY, THE STEROIDS saved Charlotte’s life. Taking Charlotte out so early definitely saved Elizabeth’s life. The placenta was killing...
2029 Headlines
New Victorian State Bird Symbol Announced Venice Hotel Owners Sell Up National Cancer Detection Implant Program Rolls Out The Anti-Robot Movement Gains...
Astronomy as poetry
I BELIEVED IN it. I more than believed in it – I was obsessed. It was a vision of something amazing,...
Hummingbirds in the forest of needle and blood
Say there is a boy in a village. Say the boy is not always a boy, but today he...
Aftermath
IN THE AFTERMATH of 2020 – a year that outstripped description, so broad and deeply felt were its tragedies and...
Scaling change
Listen to Amanda Tattersall read ‘Scaling change’ I’M OLD ENOUGH to remember when Australia’s Wonderland opened in 1985 in Sydney’s western suburbs....
Dystopian photo album
Buried in slough of immaculate lust We wave off the iron-man model Coughing up money and fake lottery tix Ipso facto zippers...
My Covid dreaming
HE WORE OFF-WHITE trainers with built-up soles. The caved-in line of his jaw told me he had no teeth...
New world dreams
EREWHON. SOUNDS WELSH – the soft ‘h’. That’s what I thought when I first saw the word on the...
