The fires of change

Nauru diary

Standing Rock

A voté

I voted Benoit Hamon. What can I say? I have always voted for the Parti Socialiste candidates at presidential...

American dreams

THREE YEARS AGO I was privileged to intern for a Democratic congressman in the United States House of Representatives....

Frontier dreaming

QUEENSLANDERS MAY BE united when it comes to State of Origin football, but up north there has always been...

On ‘The Natural Way of Things’, by Charlotte Wood

The women in Charlotte Wood’s powerful and distinctive novel are prisoners in an imaginative landscape that we know only as a remote location somewhere in inland Australia. It is not a place, or a literature, that we have encountered before. There is nothing like it in our literary past.

Beyond victims

  Listen to ABC Radio National Big Ideas: Broadcast of Griffith Review Annual Lecture by Chris Sarra. Watch ABC TV Big Ideas: Broadcast of Griffith Review Annual...

Sanctuary in the city

EARLY IN THE evening of the 2016 presidential election, the streets of New York City sprang into messy, loud...

Signs of life

Rise again

EVERY TIME ANYONE asks me how I came to Australia, I tell them I was adopted from China. It’s...

Shanghai Baby

On the surface of the globe, for living matter in general, energy is always in excess; the question is...