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Rhythms of Abortion Reform   No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body. —Margaret Sanger (1879–1966), founder of modern-day Planned Parenthood Many years ago I went to see my family doctor. It was September, one year into a post-9/11 world, and Melbourne’s streets reeked of plane trees and fear. I was 19, and I was pregnant. I sat on the plastic chair in the waiting room and thought about what that meant. I thought about how I would lose my job (I did) and how furious my parents would be (they were). A little girl […]

For some time, I’d been thinking of writing about Westgate Park, an inconspicuous piece of ground beneath the shadows of the Westgate Bridge at the mouth of the Birrarung (Yarra) River in Melbourne.

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Yesterday I shot a cow: 3027. I shot her twice through the back of the head with a small-bore rifle. She was weak and unwell, because of drought, and I had to ‘put her out of her misery’ as they say. The question arose: who would put me out of mine? Several weeks ago I had discovered 3027 in the hill paddock, down, unable to get up. The sight of a ‘downer’ cow is a depressing one. They look like they don’t understand what has happened to them and usually you don’t either. Commonly they never get up again. Your second […]

I have not read William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, a text many meet in high school literature class. Despite this, I thought I knew the plot through cultural reference. There was that Simpsons episode, where the Springfield yellow school bus goes off route and sees the kids stranded on a deserted island.

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