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My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, ‘Good fences...

By Alex Reilly

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this essay contains references to deceased people. IN LATE OCTOBER 1959,...

By Annabel Stafford

Dedicated to the memory of Michael Gordon (1955–2018) THE PEOPLES OF the Indian subcontinent have a significant presence in contemporary...

By David Hansen

AT A PARTY last year, towards the tail end of summer when leases go up for renewal and people move...

By Donna Lu

Each Australian has both sexes, and if a child happens to be born with only one, they kill it...

By Stuart Glover

THE WORDS ‘WELCOME’ and ‘opportunity’ are used throughout the Department of Home Affairs’ migration webpages. There is the occasional...

By Fiona Murphy

THERE ARE JACKHAMMERS everywhere. A new Parramatta is emerging out of the rubble, seeking to make real its tag line:...

RECENTLY, I WATCHED worried policemen and politicians denounce the crimes of Sudanese Australians. If you only caught the headlines, you...

By Jennifer Forest

WHAT I WANT is for three people to speak to you. Merlinda Bobis, Julie Koh and Mammad Aidani. You may...

By Maria Tumarkin

ON AUSTRALIA DAY in 2016, artist Elizabeth Close was at an Adelaide shopping centre speaking to her young daughter...

By Raelke Grimmer

AUSTRALIA WAS THE last continent to experience the transformation wrought by new settlers arriving to make it their own....

A VISITOR TO China will often hear about the four great inventions that China has given the world: paper,...

By Nicholas Jose