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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...

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

I AM NOT original to this land, having just relocated to Australia from Canada, but a recent welcome to...

By James Carson

WHEN DR TIMOTHY White spins a yarn he attracts an audience – capturing the listener with his imaginative use...

By C August Elliott

We acknowledge our Yawuru Elders and their organisation we work with and for, who have generously given us permission...