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Siege mentality
I FIRST CAME to Hungary thirty years ago as a young Australian diplomat, witnessing its democratic transition and conversion...
Squats, squares and city plans
WALKING ALONG BERLIN’S River Spree one hot summer’s day in 2019, I happened upon a little garden. It was fenced,...
Come together
AS LIBRARY-BASED complexes have evolved in recent decades to foster important community making, interculturalism and egalitarian learning, Australia and...
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...
