Memoir NOVEMBER 1952: BERNARD Marks has just arrived in northern Egypt from Salford, in the north of England, to begin two years of National Service in the Suez Canal Zone. Faced with a rising tide of Egyptian nationalism, Britain – its...

ReportageAS JACQUI WANDIN gazes out over the rolling paddocks and scribbles of bushland, she can visualise the scene a century and a half ago, when the landscape was dotted with timber cottages, workshops, brick-making kilns, milking sheds, a sawmill,...

ReportageTUCKED AWAY IN a jade valley in the mist-shrouded hinterland of northern New South Wales, the former cedar-logging village of Tyalgum seems an unlikely place for a revolution. The pace of life is unhurried, and when the electricity goes...

EssayONE BY ONE, the names flash up on the big screen, and one by one, the swaying, dancing ocean of red and black bellows them out: 'Ante Čović!' 'Adam D'Apuzzo!' 'Nikolai Topor-Stanley!' 'Michael Beauchamp!' 'Jérome Polenz!' 'Dino Kresinger!' 'Aaron...

ReportageSelected for Best Australian Essays 2010 AS YOU FLY out of Perth, heading east, the wheat and sheep country cushioning the world's most isolated capital city quickly recedes. The already sparse signs of settlement diminish, and soft yellows and greens...

ReportageOUTSIDE EASTWOOD VILLAGE Superfresh, a cavernous fruit and vegetable store, a ruddy-faced Italian in a leather apron is spruiking the day’s specials to a stream of Chinese shoppers. In the nearby pedestrian mall, two Korean teenagers – one with...

EssayWINTER IS A hectic time on Pitcairn Island: the arrowroot crop is ready for harvesting, as are the wild beans that sprout in profusion, clambering over bushes and twining themselves around tree trunks. The sugarcane, too, stands tall in...

ReportageWinner, 2013 Walkley Award, All Media Coverage of Indigenous Affairs 'YA PAKANA KARATI, pulingina milaythina pakana-mana-tu.' ('Hello all blackfellas and white friends, welcome to my Aboriginal land.') Hands clasped behind her back, three-year-old Sienna is performing a Welcome to Country...