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AT THE SAME time as a headline in The Guardian announced: ‘Indigenous Australians most ancient civilisation on Earth, DNA...

By Stephen Muecke

I WANT TO take you on a journey from the planet to the parish, from the global to the...

By Tom Griffiths

NOBODY LOOKS VERY comfortable. There are four faces, angled inelegantly, only one inclined to engage with the camera, the...

By David Ritter

ON THE RIVERBANK at the old Sackville Aboriginal Reserve on Dyarubbin there’s a stone obelisk. It seems permanent and...

By Grace Karskens

AS A HISTORIAN I’m not used to this sort of archive. It’s a freezing spring morning in Clifton Springs, near...

By Anna Clark

IN RECENT YEARS, a figure has begun to emerge from the dark recesses of Australia’s colonial history – one of...

By Paul Daley

IT WAS READING Alexis Wright’s novel Carpentaria (Giramondo, 2006) in 2007 that introduced me to the idea of ‘country’:...

This is barefoot country even now, in early winter when the cool mountain air dampens the risk of a startled snake rising in...

By Alison Thompson

LAST OCTOBER, THE World Wildlife Fund for Nature released the 2018 Living Planet Report. Published biennially since 1998, the...

By James Bradley

IT’S 1961, AND the kids of the baby boom are rapidly outgrowing old nests. On the eastern edge of...

By Kate Veitch

THIS IS THE kind of place people leave. This town, Tamby East, sits a few kilometres off the North-West Highway....

By Jenny Sinclair

Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? Edward Lorenz, American Association for...

By Jo Chandler