IntroductionAUSTRALIA WAS THE last continent to experience the transformation wrought by new settlers arriving to make it their own. For centuries, explorers had set forth to discover lands which others already called home, but that were conquered and renamed...

ReportageShortlisted, 2014 Human Rights Award, Print and Online AwardMY INTERVIEW WITH Mr Syed did not get off to a great start. We’d arranged to meet at the Dandenong library – part of the city council building, a huge, bright...

GR OnlineIN THE QUIET week between Christmas and New Year, sometimes even New Zealanders are newsworthy in Australia. Generally the significant Kiwi population in Australia goes unnoticed and unremarked. On Saturday 28 December 2013, however, mastheads from the Murdoch stable...

ReportageIT IS A cold winter evening and the visitors' lounge at the Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre feels like the waiting room of a forlorn hospital, a place where you sit anticipating news that can only be bad. A few...

ReportageDAYS ARE NUMBERED for the Monday morning Mernda market. Last year, after operating for more than a century, the weekly livestock auction shut down. A few traders still sell live chicks, layer pullets and ducks from wire cages, and...

EssaySUNDAY, 3 APRIL 2011: Crossing the Hay Plain at 30,000 feet.Underway at last! I didn't sleep well last night. In part it was the normal anxiety that precedes international travel, exaggerated by the fact that I haven't been overseas...