79.2 Winter 2020

Published 16 June 2020

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In this edition, author and essayist Lucia Osborne-Crowley examines the cost of intimacy for women in a world where men demand exclusive access to the closeness of their female partners, often without returning the emotional labour involved.

How do we write the apocalypse? Author Lucy Treloar wonders at the craft of fiction when confronted by unrelenting apocalyptic reality and considers the space between the real and the observed.

Guy Rundle recalls the extraordinary and now lost days of big production TV sketch comedy. It’s the eighties and in the writers’ room at Full Frontal the winds of change are gathering

Sophie Cunningham pauses as a summer of fire merges with an autumn of pandemic. She writes on nature, community, politics, desperation and belonging.

Claire G. Coleman writes on the long shadow of the Stolen Generations: ‘Dad discovered he was Noongar when he was 63, when I was 30, when his Uncle Bob died…’

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Lucia Osborne-Crowley