I notice the wildlife before the people. Between the hoards of holy cows and scavengers of the sky, there’s fierce competition for edible waste. I’m…
“Wow, there’s no way I could do that!” “It’s been a whole year since you’ve seen each other?” “Do you really have a boyfriend if…
When I arrived at his dilapidated treehouse, I complimented Michael on the taxidermy snake he had draped on his kitchen window sill. I found comfort…
It’s a look of adjustment. Coloured people have felt it since the ancient time, since the long, long ago when the sun stopped shining where…
We smiled and thrashed around in the pool because they told us to. We yelled out “Schoolies!” with our drinks in the air because they…
It was the eve of my 30th birthday: a painfully gorgeous afternoon in the south-east of Tasmania. A handful of friends and I were basking…
It’s been a whole year now of living with the spicy cough, and though in Australia we’ve been fairly bloody lucky to escape the brunt…
“Malingerer” is my reflexive conviction when I talk about depression or hear it discussed. Mental illness is the privilege of wealthy societies where basic needs…
