Timmah Ball

Timmah Ball is a writer and urban planner of Ballardong Noongar heritage. In 2022, she published the chapbook Do Planners Dream of Electric Trees? through Glom Press, and her work has appeared in publications such as This All Come Back Now (UQP) and Best Australia Poems, both 2022.

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The cost of living

IT’S DIFFICULT TO know how to honour stories about a site that remains
vacant, its future as unanswerable as the past we can’t reconcile. In community
meetings, well-meaning
locals asked that we celebrate both histories, as if
they are two different things, while the cost of environmental remediation
inhibits both government and the private sector from doing anything. And
the site remains silent, unable to articulate what happened or how to move on.

Hope and conflict at the MCG

EssayTHE ADULTS STARE hard, looks of panic rip through the crowd. A curiously dressed man in clinical white clothing follows the ball with a dancer’s grace. He turns quickly between two enormous poles, faces the ground, then raises both...

Still talkin’ up to the white woman

MemoirTHE NAKED WOMAN is only visible when my manager’s door is open – when closed it is unclear what the painting depicts. From my desk I can make out the faint outline of a woman’s back through the frosted glass...

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