He also raises the question of whether Australia's contemporary treatment of refugees has anything in common with the sane and decent policies that have characterised the better moments in our history
Jono feels as if he’s been left behind with his Vietnamese single father
Katharine Murphy goes behind the scenes to tell the story of the response to the crisis
noise as music and the conditions and conventions of conceptual art
On Helen Garner by Sean O'Beirne evidence-based-policy He also raises the questionWhat I love in Helen Garners writing is a particular kind of closeness to self, the good, greedy, mistaken, emotional, fierce, sceptical, changing and disrupting self. Garner makes so much from what seems to be just her individual sense, individual observation rather than anything made by and for the group. But I also love the beautiful strong contradiction in her work: shes always fighting to come back enough, as well, to find enough that can stop