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Caught Up In the Dominance of the English Language

Caught Up In the Dominance of the English Language

August 28, 2018
by Dana Louey
Features

Our legs dragged as we approached the traditional Indonesian restaurant, known as a warung, at the end of the street. Smokey grey fumes swirled from…

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The Other Side of Suicide

The Other Side of Suicide

August 28, 2018
by Ashleigh Holland
Yarns

Content warning: Suicide and associated themes I lay cocooned in an old duvet on the hard hospital floor, drifting in and out of consciousness to…

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New PM, Same Old Mistakes

New PM, Same Old Mistakes

August 26, 2018
by David Allegretti
Current Affairs

I’m sat in an empty American-style diner on Melbourne’s Chapel Street when I hear the news. “We have a new PM,” she says, as casually…

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Free Cat Hugs With a Side of Fleas

Free Cat Hugs With a Side of Fleas

August 24, 2018
by Angela Kasprowicz
Features, Japan Yarns

The trainee clerk at 7/11 gives me a nervous smile as she fumbles my items through the scanner. I wait for her to see the…

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Losing My Mum at Six Years Old

Losing My Mum at Six Years Old

August 23, 2018
by Meg Fitzallen-Peck
Yarns

I enter the hospital room and my body freezes. Before me stands a lifeless room full of clinical white light. Death lingers in the fringes,…

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One Step at a Time: Trekking Kokoda at Age 15

One Step at a Time: Trekking Kokoda at Age 15

August 20, 2018
by Erin Dick
Yarns

Long days. Cold nights. Fatigue and loneliness. Standing in the harsh sun, I’m surrounded by walls of tall jungle. Staring ahead at a steep overgrown…

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Tracking the Exchange Rate of my Trust

Tracking the Exchange Rate of my Trust

August 17, 2018
by Zoe Ridgway
Yarns

Content warning: themes of sexual assault In the winter of New Delhi, the birds of prey drew imaginary circles below the smog; they wouldn’t be…

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The Traveller's Sacrifice

The Traveller’s Sacrifice

August 14, 2018
by Lee McDermid
Features

I just missed another friend’s wedding. A friend I have known since the age of 10. She sent me the invite months ago. Absolutely no…

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Killing in the Name Of

Killing in the Name Of

August 13, 2018
by Immi Campbell
Vietnam Yarns, Yarns

The reactions are diverse when you tell someone you’ve decapitated a live chicken in Vietnam: I’ve been laughed at for my inept bravery, labelled as…

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Hakuba: Climb Shirouma-dake (or Hang in the Carpark)

Hakuba: Climb Shirouma-dake (or Hang in the Carpark)

August 6, 2018
by Gemma Clarke
Hakuba Do

Get There: Drive to the end of Route 322 and park in the carpark — about 20 minutes from central Hakuba. At the very windy end…

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Why You Should Add Hakuba to Your Summer-in-Japan Itinerary

Why You Should Add Hakuba to Your Summer-in-Japan Itinerary

August 6, 2018
by Gemma Clarke
Japan Tips, Travel

Australians love Japan. We crave its sushi, we embrace getting pissed at karaoke, we marvel at the novelty of being naked in a public bathhouse….

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I Thought I Would Die in a Bunk Bed in Hanoi

I Thought I Would Die in a Bunk Bed in Hanoi

August 6, 2018
by Riccardo Valentino
Vietnam Yarns, Yarns

I land in Hanoi the second week of February.  Not winter, not summer, and not comparable to any other middle season in the rest of…

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