Journal
Articles
On the record
A YEAR AGO, feeling hopeless about my work as a freelance writer, I began to look for other ways to...
Memorial park
DANIEL SAT ON the damp earth between two buttress roots of the massive fig tree. They rose up beside...
White justice, black suffering
Dad began this job in 1989 in the days of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. He was not the only black prison guard on staff – in fact, at one point, Rockhampton’s jail had the highest percentage of Indigenous employees in the state. And yet, there were even more Murris locked up. The first thing that shocked Dad was just how many were inside, and over the next two decades he would see many of his own relatives coming through the gates.
Keeping it together
HAVE YOU EVER thought about what it would be like to have a loved one in prison? Would you...
The how matters
This story contains descriptions of violence. ON SATURDAY 15 March 2014, my stepmother Genee was shot twice in her bed...
Visiting day
ONCE A MONTH, Mrs Murphy took him on a trip to the other side of town. For these journeys...
Pablo Escobar’s hippopotamus
He had four hippos in his private zoo and would visit them each dawn in his silk kimono to explain survival...
From little things
DEBBIE KILROY WAS sitting quietly at home in Brisbane on the afternoon of 6 January 2019, scrolling through social...
Mountain ashed
I’M STANDING IN the shifting forest in the muted light of dusk. Above me, a tall tree with a...
Prepping
YOUR LAWYER – A woman, for Chrissakes, young and Australian – is making you do some last-minute prep-prep-prepping. That’s really what...
The trauma of discipline
THE TILES IN the kitchen were white, with a grey diamond pattern. The grout was a light greying brown –...
Love virtually
The shift we’ve made to finding lovers online is nothing short of profound, and it’s a trend observable across every age group in Australia. Even the oldies appear to have taken to it with zeal. As the digitisation of our lives proceeds unabated, the use of digital platforms as a legitimate way to find a prospective mate has embedded itself in our culture.
