The Boat
By Rebecca Giggs That was the year just passed, in which silence turned from an absence of information into a palpable presence – a character recruited into the national story by the Department of...
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The Right To Be Old
By Melanie Joosten As each generation lives longer than the last, there is a tendency to see ageing as a medical problem to be solved rather than a natural part of the life course. But if living...
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No Dogs, No Fruit, No Firearms, No Professors
By Maria Tumarkin As with any language or dialect, Australian English has its share of idiomatic expressions in which simple-seeming words come together to produce a meaning inexplicable without...
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In Small Places
By Emily Maguire Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Eleanor Roosevelt. On 16...
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Things and their makers: from “European Labour Only” to “Ethical Consumerism”
By Lia Incognita | Reading time: 15 minutes This is a story of things: a wooden desk, a silk shirt, an enamel pin, a fluorescent lightbulb. Each one reveals something about the history of labour, race...
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The Country is Like a Body
By Ellen van Neerven | Reading time: 15 minutes On a night last year by the fire at kuril dhagan (water rat’s place) on the Brisbane River Nancy Bamaga, a Torres Strait Islander woman from Saibai...
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A Child’s Right to a Good Earth
By Kate Holden | Reading time: 15 minutes My two-year-old son is learning the world. Up, down, big and small, purple and yelloooooooow, and “thank you” and “sparkly” and “now” and “later”. He is...
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At the knife’s edge
By Robin de Crespigny | Reading time: 25 minutes I spent three days with Arman* recording his story from every angle. As English is not his first language I have reworked some of the material, so while...
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The Dog in the Dungeon – Emergency Services and Trauma
By Martin McKenzie-Murray | Reading time: 15 minutes It’s easy to be entranced by Port Arthur. The old penitentiary and ancillary buildings – a church, the small homes of staff officers, “lunatic...
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Grindring For Justice
By Senthorun Raj | 15 minute read My friends often remark that I can be relied upon to provide commentary about two things at any given time: Australian human rights violations and Grindr. This...
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