Journal
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Hail Hydra
‘DO YOU TRUST me?’ An earnest question. ‘I do.’ An earnest answer. And then that ancient, global gesture of earnest intimacy:...
The compound
A TROPICAL SUMMER. 2006: A Monday. Wendy, the story: the compound, the day, her telling me in Mackay her...
Less than 20/20 vision
EVEN A PERFECT metaphor runs its course. For decades, 2020 has offered a convenient label for conferences and strategic...
Let the river flow
THE TWO MEN stand knee-deep in river water the colour of pickled cucumbers. ‘My name is Dick Arnold and I’m...
Archival secrets and hidden histories
IN DECEMBER 2005, Gough Whitlam was at the National Archives of Australia in Canberra speaking on the occasion of...
Surrounded
IN TERMS OF the event, the make or type of bikes surely doesn’t matter now, but it weirdly did...
Iris
I was told experience mattered. This is a lie, at least when it comes to light. I’ve drunk decades of it and...
A great experiment
IT’S EASY TO get lost in the disruption: our obsession with technology and how to regulate it; minimise our...
On being sane in insane places
I’VE BEEN THINKING about how my body inhabits place and how it changes – fluctuating between comfort and pain – depending...
Order, not chaos
IT WAS A muffled cheer. On 19 October 2017, it rose from behind a stiff oak door in New...
Best laid plans
THE KIDS IN Eleanor Hardy’s class are all still talking about the fight. They shouldn’t be – she heard the...
Expert judgment on markers
Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves a powerful culture. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to...
