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Walks with Margaret and JontyIn ArticlesMay 22, 2020Personal essay on time spent with a neighbour through the stages of cancer during coronavirus. […]
Love Letter to BundanoonIn Articles, MiscMarch 21, 2009To be honest, I wasn’t sure I’d like it. It was […]
Reckoning by Magda SzubanskiIn MiscFebruary 2, 2016There is no gloating or syrup. There are therapy sessions, and a belief that trauma may be genetically carried from one generation to the next through nightmares and imagery. […]
Goes down easy and explodes at a pre-set levelIn ArticlesJune 7, 2017It isn’t from the depths of his immersion in computer and VR technology that his revelations unfurl. It is, rather, from a detached overview, looking down, high on the heady fumes wafting up from the cooking circuitry below him, that he is able to make his prognostications. […]
The Choke by Sofie Laguna: ReviewIn ReviewsNovember 4, 2020The Choke by Sofie Laguna is a superb piece of writing. Structurally well-crafted with prose that's full of the vigour of youth, the nasty resourcefulness of degrading poverty. […]
Zen & the Art of Washing DishesIn Short FictionJanuary 1, 2019They say life is a series of imperfect facts with many […]
Bundanoon Says NO to Bottled WaterIn ArticlesMarch 22, 2009July 9th, 2009 “Australians spend half a billion […]
A Future Now in HERIn MiscMarch 17, 2006HER (dir. bySpike Jonze) holds a mirror to what we have now – people disengaged with people. The love affair is with the technology that binds us together. […]
A Moment of NihilismIn ArticlesMarch 21, 1998A self-proclaimed esoteric god that I used to […]
Things I Never Knew Until I was a ParentIn Articles, MiscAugust 16, 2016Last time I did a VIA Institute personality assessment, my score for self-consciousness was off the chart. Now I sing in the street. […]
Fred Cress ExhibitionIn MiscMarch 21, 2005Galeria Aniela, Kangaroo Valley What strikes you first […]
Melbourne Street ArtIn ArticlesMarch 22, 2013Street art musings from Melbourne, Victoria. […]
Inside the Kings Cross Medically Supervised Injecting CentreIn ArticlesOctober 29, 2014When Courtney Love kicked off her tour of Australia last month, I took a tour of the Medically Supervised Injecting Centre. […]
The Natural Way of Things: ReviewIn Articles, ReviewsSeptember 2, 2016Review of The Natural Way of Things, Stella Prize-winning novel by Charlotte Wood […]
Versailles of ReliefIn ArticlesMarch 21, 2013Initially set up as a hunting lodge for Louis XIII, […]
War on Unconscious SexismIn ArticlesAugust 13, 2000Australia has a very small population compared with […]
Bush Medicine: a quick look at some medicinal and useful native plantsIn ArticlesJuly 10, 2018About nine of us, including kids, got to touch, smell, crackle and rub our way through an interactive two hours of fascinating local treasures hidden in plain view. […]
The FractureIn Short FictionMarch 21, 1998A seven-year-old, abandoned by her mother at a carnival, rides a swing and witnesses a catastrophe below. Psychological suspense with supernatural elements. […]
The Benley AcquisitionIn Short FictionAugust 30, 2014Money is tight in regional New South Wales. How do two competitive shires deal with paltry funding and generations of rivalry respond to the challenge? A comic and quintessentially Australian short story. […]
StormIn Short FictionMarch 22, 2013Lying on a white bed in a wooden room listening to the […]
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