Not the Queen’s birthday
With the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the question of whose birthday we now celebrate with a public holiday is once again being discussed. In Queensland,…
With the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the question of whose birthday we now celebrate with a public holiday is once again being discussed. In Queensland,…
Our homes have become our cocoons. As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the world, we have cancelled travel plans and retreated – at the behest of our…
As a freelance writer, I’ve worked from a home office for nearly 30 years. For me, the “work from home” directive that is affecting many workers…
Sometimes, it seems as if the world is broken. Uncertainty is rife, surrounding so many aspects of everyday life, and things are changing every day. This…
It will be remembered as the summer Australia burned. The year that – for many Australians – Christmas was cancelled. As I write this, bushfires have…
One of my strongest childhood memories is of getting lost. I was four years old and it was ANZAC Day, the day on which Australians and…
When a book is adapted for the stage or screen, the impact of the words is often lost. This is not the case with the Sydney…
In a church hall with apricot walls, a man wearing a dark suit over a hot pink t-shirt – with socks to match – waits for…
Journalists meet many people in the course of their working lives. Some of those people – and their stories – stick in our minds. Some more…
The sense of overwhelming loneliness is what I remember most. Just row upon row of flat marble headstones, flanked by cypress trees and watched over by…