Ambivalent hope
Melody Ellis
Reflections on hope.
Tag: Australia
Goodbye to Cousin Merle
Jeremy Mair
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.
Elsewhere than Here
Brandon K. Liew and Daryl Lim Wei Jie 林伟杰
Poetry from Brandon K. Liew and Daryl Lim Wei Jie 林伟杰
Jade, Pine, Orchid, Kidney
Robert Wood
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.
The third dog / Space bound
Peta Murray and Maggie Tiojakin
“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 tale of two homes
Emma Pei Yin
The China-Australian Migration Corridor delves deep into historical foundations, contemporary trends and policy considerations related to movement between China and Australia.
Silos / Renga
Mariyam Haider and Emilie Collyer
A renga by Mariyam Haider and Emilie Collyer. Commissioned as part of a collaboration between RMIT’s nonfiction/lab and Mekong Review.
The bookseller’s revolution
Emma Pei Yin
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.
The reluctant activist
Minh Bui Jones
An Australian activist takes on China
Our patch
Greg Lockhart
Foreign policy and the making of Australia
Thirsty country
Sam Vincent
Rain on my farm
Coal r us
Robert Templer
What if Australia took the Nordic model?
Fear and greed
Michael Reilly
Australia changes its mind on China
A realist’s lament
Michael Reilly
For China and Australia, a question of values
Coal devotion
Jeff Sparrow
Climate change scepticism is entrenched in Australia
Missing on stage
Mina Bui Jones
A world music festival in Australia where Southeast Asian performers are rarely seen
Burning denial
Jeff Sparrow
Australia’s summer from hell
War myths
Alexander Wells
A new Australian film misses the mark
Paper estate
Jeff Sparrow
Shaping Australia’s print landscape
Hell down under
Allan Patience
An indictment of Australia’s cruelty to asylum seekers
Bard from Bunyah
Michael Freeman
The poems of the late Les Murray (1938-2019)