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Pulling down fences
The son of an activist, Munro Jr traces his ‘goolie’ – the fire in his belly – to his childhood on the New Moree Mission and his unfaltering awareness of the racial undertones that infiltrate a town such as Moree. It was indeed the only local government area in Australia that had enshrined racial segregation in its local by-laws…
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(Callerya megasperma family Fabaceae. Native wisteria.) Australian-style mimesis is native daphne, frangipani, gardenia, violet … Is Callerya megasperma, native wisteria....
On suicide watch?
THE WORLD IS full of beautiful places. Beaches and oceans, cliffs, forests, mountains and valleys, deserts, rivers, islands, harbours...
Crossing the line
IMAGINE AN AIRPLANE flying north from Brisbane to Cairns. In just over two hours, it will cover nearly 1,400 kilometres of Australia’s eastern coastline and add 340 kilograms of carbon dioxide to each of its passengers’ personal carbon footprints.
Lost and found in translation
The vast continent is really void of speech...this speechless, aimless solitariness was in the air. It was natural to...
Boodjar ngan djoorla
MY BONES ARE in the soul of Country, and Country is in my bones. My veins are the creeks...
A fragile civilisation
AT THE SAME time as a headline in The Guardian announced: ‘Indigenous Australians most ancient civilisation on Earth, DNA...
The planet is alive
I WANT TO take you on a journey from the planet to the parish, from the global to the...
We all took a stand
NOBODY LOOKS VERY comfortable. There are four faces, angled inelegantly, only one inclined to engage with the camera, the...
Life and death on Dyarubbin
ON THE RIVERBANK at the old Sackville Aboriginal Reserve on Dyarubbin there’s a stone obelisk. It seems permanent and...
Rebuilding reefs, restoring memory
AS A HISTORIAN I’m not used to this sort of archive. It’s a freezing spring morning in Clifton Springs, near...
A change in the political weather?
IN RECENT YEARS, a figure has begun to emerge from the dark recesses of Australia’s colonial history – one of...
