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IF, LIKE ME, you have very few better things to do with your time, you may have noticed the...

‘STRAYLYA’. THAT’S HOW I can remember first hearing it – stray-lya – as if it was a place filled with strays. I wasn’t...

By Pat Hoffie

ON A DUSTY corner just before the Oodnadatta Track begins to unfurl across the centre of Australia, there is an...

By Ben Stubbs

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this essay contains references to deceased people. SWINGING IN MY hammock,...

By Andrea Baldwin

IMMIGRATION HAS BECOME one of the great defining, dividing issues of our time. In Europe, it is helping to...

FOR A MOMENT, as my plane finally descended into Canberra at the end of the long trip from Germany, I thought...

By Antje Missbach

LIKE THE MEMBERS of every nation, Australians have fairly stable ideas about the kind of people we are, to...

MY PARENTS ARRIVED in Australia on a fine September Sunday in 1946, a light to moderate westerly blowing across...

I HAVE A confession to make. Some years ago, while enjoying solace in a café, a well-nourished white bloke accosted...

By Masako Fukui

DURING MY DOCTORAL fieldwork researching Islamophobia from the point of view of the ‘Islamophobes’, I spent many weekends in the...

Nations and peoples are largely the stories they feed themselves. If they tell themselves stories that are lies, they...

IN THE BEGINNING, I had to avert my eyes – not that he’d asked me to or anything. Sometimes I’d try...

By Adele Dumont