MemoirADELAIDE’S GOLDEN AGE began when the Beatles flew into town on 12 June 1964, electrifying the citizenry out of their country--town torpor into a screaming mass on the streets. It ended when a dressing-gowned Don Dunstan resigned office on...

EssayAT THE BEGINNING of the First World War, a fifty-something German academic, vigorous but not fit enough for the frontline, was appointed to the Military Hospitals Commission and told to organise several reserve hospitals in Heidelberg in quick time....

EssayWAYS OF THINKING about women and men usually stall in a 'maze of false dichotomies', poet Adrienne Rich said many years ago.[i] So let's delay entering the maze and remain here for as long as we can instead, in...

Essaylibertarian – A person who holds the doctrine of the freedom of the will, as opp. to that of necessity ... Believing in free will. liberticide – A destroyer of liberty ... Destructive of liberty. – The New Shorter Oxford English...

EssayWHAT DOES AUSTRALIA look like? In the 1950s a school-aged Hilary McPhee, in an essay on what Australia would be like in 2000, foresaw it as ‘clean and orderly and laminex coloured – and everyone had an abundance of...