Published 16 March 2023
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Light, air and the autumn wind. Good drying weather. Ethics and history and peace and war and the laundry. Taking stock. Abandoned cities, lost children, political legacies emptied of all honour. 孝弟也者、其为仁之本与. How we commemorate, and what we forget. The cost of education, the cost of living, the costs of doing nothing. Insects, birds, bulls, deer, saplings, forests, the Great Barrier Reef. Ethical beekeeping, hydrogeology, the second person. Ruin porn and inspiration porn. Solarpunk and Chengyu and the Argonauts. Housing and home, love and Metta, class and compassion. Understanding where it is that we exist when we’re gathering our forces. Let’s get our house in order—and prepare for what comes next.
EDITORIAL
Esther Anatolitis
Σταθία Ανατολίτη
Up Front
NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
Zara Gudnason
BEEKEEPING AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE
Bethany Patch
ON LIVED EXPERIENCE
Danijel Malbasa
Essays
AUSTRALIA IN THREE BOOKS
Eugenia Flynn
A MIRACLE CORRUPTED: THE DOWNFALL OF AN UNLOVED PRIME MINISTER
Ben Eltham
ADAM AND ADAM
Erin Vincent
ARIA FROM THE LAST ACT
Meredith Jelbart
BLOOD AND BONE
Kim Aikman
AGAINST THE EQUATION
Stephanie Dunk
THE COMFORT OF THINGS PAST
Meg Foster
THE WASHING LINE
Michael McGirr
ONE DAY ON NAURU
Chris Honnery
THE ARGONAUTICA I AM RE-ENVISAGING AND WILL EVENTUALLY TRY TO FORGET, AS I SHOULD?
John Kinsella
WHO SHOULD DIE, AND WHAT SHOULD WE DO WITH THE BODIES?
Julien Leyre
ONLY PARENT, ONLY CHILD
Kerry Greer
RUIN PORN AND INSPIRATION PORN
Lauren Poole
SLAUGHTERHOUSE SIX
Haydn Spurrell
ST ALBANS
Amra Pajalić
NOBODY WRITES
Dean Biron
ART FOR A CLIMATE EMERGENCY
Lara Stevens
THE LONE TREE OF MACKAY
Dave Witty
THE PROMISE OF A REAL JOB
Frances Egan
WHATEVER YOU WRITE, THERE YOU ARE
Lucia Osborne-Crowley
Memoir
LIFE OF A FOLK DEVIL
Michael Mohammed Ahmad
Illustrated by Matt Chun
GARDENING AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Hannah Ky McCann
SOMETHING BREATHABLE
Tiia Kelly
Fiction
HIROSHIMA BLOOMS
Gretchen Shirm
CARVE
Eleanor Limprecht
VIETS IN PERTH
Tien Tran
Reviews
THE MOST DANGEROUS WOMAN IN SYDNEY?
Justine Hyde
ACKNOWLEDGED LEGISLATORS
James Jiang
THE LIE OF SOCIAL MOBILITY
Sonia Nair
SEVERANCE PAY
Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne
IF SELFIES COULD TALK
Elese Dowden
Poetry
Messaging
π.ο.
Study on Artefacts
Alison J. Barton
Two Thousand and One Nights
Peter Rose
Green Soul Working
Carl Walsh
Barks of Great Artists
Michael Farrell
Journal in August
Petra White
Here Tonight:
Chris Andrews
Over and Over
David Ishaya Osu
The Flock
Eliza Dune Daiza
The Old Tin Shacks
Kerry Bulloojeeno Archibald Moran
First Winter
Sharon Du
Sunflowers
Edith Speers
The Prodigal
Suneeta Peres da Costa
The Taste of Insects
Rob McKinnon




