In a new banner by Taring Padi and Noongar artists, the Noongar figures and Australian fauna and flora integrate with images from an rebellious Indonesian proletarian class in a bold synthesis, creating a dream-like, political logic.
Cousin Merle’s abscission from the family tree didn’t elicit any great feeling on my part, but the fact that there was no Chinese blood in the family was a little more complicated.
Poetry from Brandon K. Liew and Daryl Lim Wei Jie 林伟杰
Eileen Chong’s poetry defies national categories, making its way into cracks and crevices like an orchid in cement, grown beautiful and a little wild.
“Einstein saw space and time as an intrinsically linked existence: how the passing of time is relative to the space we inhabit, which is to say, how we find meaning in our lives depends greatly on where we stand.”
A piece of flash fiction by Linda Collins and Noelle Q. de Jesus. Commissioned as part of a collaboration between RMIT’s nonfiction/lab and Mekong Review.
The China-Australian Migration Corridor delves deep into historical foundations, contemporary trends and policy considerations related to movement between China and Australia.
A renga by Mariyam Haider and Emilie Collyer. Commissioned as part of a collaboration between RMIT’s nonfiction/lab and Mekong Review.
As a lead bookseller at The Book Cow, I’m not merely selling pages filled with words; I’m at the crossroads where books meet real life.
Personal testimonies are always more powerful than hypothetical discussions, and Elaine Pearson’s extensive experience in investigating human rights abuses and advocating for positive changes serves as a practitioner’s handbook.
An Australian activist takes on China
Foreign policy and the making of Australia
Rain on my farm
What if Australia took the Nordic model?
Australia changes its mind on China
For China and Australia, a question of values
Climate change scepticism is entrenched in Australia
Patrick Allington’s dystopian novel speaks for our times
A world music festival in Australia where Southeast Asian performers are rarely seen
Australia’s summer from hell
A new Australian film misses the mark
Shaping Australia’s print landscape
Australia’s Sweatshop movement
An indictment of Australia’s cruelty to asylum seekers
Fiction from Sreedhevi Iyer, Tiffany Tsao and Intan Paramaditha
The poems of the late Les Murray (1938-2019)
A free-market fairy tale for the faithful
A new study questions whether Australian Aborigines were isolated after their arrival 40,000 years ago.