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Essays
National Accounts: September quarter
Matt Chun

In western Sydney I visited a crime scene: a monument to Lachlan Macquarie

Fiction
Leaden Heart
Liana Skrzypczak

A story based on the escape attempt of George ‘Billy’ Hunt from the convict jail at Port Arthur, Tasmania.

Memoir
Walking and Stopping and Looking and Walking
Alexander Bennetts

The circle puts you back to where you started. The circle is not a solution; it is reflective, contemplative, ceremonial.

Poetry
It May Only Take a Minute
Jill Jones

years go by then minutes
a bag stands in the corner
full and empty

Essays
National Accounts: September quarter
Matt Chun
A New Dark Age
Robyn Annear
Genocide Tourist
Lucas Grainger-Brown
Two Towers
Scott Stephens
The Politics of Listening
Katharine Murphy
Fiction
Leaden Heart
Liana Skrzypczak
No Toes
Michael Mohammed Ahmad
The Blue Car
Anthony Lynch
Lantern
Paul Shields
Beacon
Rebecca Slater
Memoir
Walking and Stopping and Looking and Walking
Alexander Bennetts
To Miscarry
Miranda Tetlow
Blood Brother
Chris Womersley
The Fox
Mark Brandi
Ancestor Worship
Sophie Curzon-Siggers
Poetry
It May Only Take a Minute
Jill Jones
Evening Still Life With Red Apples and Proteas
Nicola Scholes
Sailor’s Knot
Omar Sakr
Warhol: Notebooks
Eileen Chong
The Horizon
Angela Gardner

A story based on the escape attempt of George ‘Billy’ Hunt from the convict jail at Port Arthur, Tasmania When in captivity time goeth very slow but free as air to roam now quick the time doth go. —James Godfrey (convict), inscribed on a penny, [Read more...]