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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...
The breathing artist
I WORKED AS part of an ever-changing small team of lighthouse keepers in 1973, on three uninhabited islands off...
Unicornered
Our dinosaur balloon has lost its pep. For weeks it commandeered the living room. It swayed above its empire like an...
Strangers in a familiar land
THERE ARE THINGS you miss about Australia when you live in London, but you need never want for Australian...
Brisbane, late 1960s
YOUR MOTHER DOESN’T like the school holidays. She has to run the shop as well as keep an eye...
Red plague
You taught me language, and my profit on’tIs I know how to curse. The red plague rid youFor learning...
Mother-daughter trip
Nana B and Zeide once ice-skated on a lake in the Carpathian Mountains in Poland. ‘I was made for Poland,’ says...
Shadow life
I WAS LESS than five when I left Hungary for Australia, yet many of my formative experiences had already...
Belonging
WE’RE ALL PART of a family, and often more than one. Even without kids, I turn up on several family...
London calling
WHEN I TOOK my first job in advertising in 1994 – in my home town, Melbourne – the last thing I...
