A lake in the smallest state on the North East coast of America becomes a home of security and love for a couple who has wandered the world. It is where they also experience fear pain and grief before they become parents of a tiny daughter.
They sail on the lake experience the dramatic ......
Flow is a collection of poems inspired by the North-West coast of Tasmania explored during the isolation of the pandemic. These works reflect the region's geography and history-rivers cascading from highland crags to the sea towns growing at estuaries and people who gradually turned their gaze inland.
This collection had its beginnings in the shame, sadness and disbelief that was felt by many after the result of the Voice referendum in 2023. The poems here passionately express those reactions and also unflinchingly explore some of the truths about Australia and its history that if they had been more widely known, might have led to a different ......
At fourteen Sophie Kamler crossed the Atlantic alone from Poland to America. At sixteen she paid for her siblings and mother to follow. At eighteen a penniless wife then a mother of three she defied New York gangsters.
At fifty six a widow she married again only to be widowed a second time. Matriarch to a sprawling but ......
Being holed up on an outback sheep station for nearly three years has been one of the best experiences of my life. From the spectacular landscape of the Flinders Ranges to the beauty of the people we came to know I will have lasting memories to make me smile - even though at times the life was hard challenging and tempers got ......
Gwen Bitti born with a facial caul in Calcutta India migrates to Australia with her family when she is sixteen. She returns to her birth land for a visit some years later. On her arrival she is jolted into a new perspective and with fresh insight sets off on a quest. The motif of her enigmatic caul is woven throughout her memoir as she ......
The Bungalow began in 1914 as a tin shed in the small colonial outpost of Alice Springs. It was built initially to house Topsy Smith of Arabana descent and her seven children after their Welsh-born father Bill Smith had died. Over the years that followed many more children with Aboriginal mothers and (largely absent) white fathers ......
Australia’s wool growing industry descended into chaos during the early 1980s when a small group of ‘rebel’ shearers started advocating for a seemingly minor change. The rebels led by gun shearer Robert White wanted 13-tooth shearing combs legalised. Wide combs as they were known had been banned from use in Australia for ......
On a lonely highway in the middle of the night two teenage Aboriginal girls are killed in a crash. Like rag dolls their bodies are thrown from the Toyota Hilux when it rolls at high speed. One suffers massive internal injuries. The other has her ear and scalp torn off. They bleed out in the dirt. A drunk middle-aged white man crawls out ......
