Saturday 14 October, 2023 The date will be forever etched in my mind, like that of my father's death, two days before this date back in 1978. He was the [...]

I've always liked Susan Johnson's writing, ever since I found a piece by her in the Griffith Review Journal (Number 32), in which she painted a picture of motherhood that [...]

I live in Coogee near the beach with my husband of 47 years. Coogee is located on Sydney’s famous Coastal Walkway, which stretches from Bondi Beach to Maroubra Beach. The [...]

The Past Lives in Us Charlie Perkins, an Aboriginal activist, who was the first indigenous person to study at the University of Sydney in the sixties, believed that “the past [...]

I was brought up on pictures of real-life kings and queens: of princes and princesses, dukes and duchesses. Mum loved the photos of the royals in glossy publications, such as [...]

When Grace Tame from Tasmania fled to Santa Barbara in California in 2019, she was diagnosed with high functioning autism. This diagnosis, coming nine years after the abuse event began, [...]

The Class of 1961-1962 A large group of us seated in front of the hallowed walls, doors and columns, of the College on the Hill, in wet October weather. A [...]

How would you fare if, like Alan Parkes, you were sent to "Bourke and Beyond" to run a small school in your first year out of Teachers' College? Anne Writes: [...]

Did you know that Australia is a world leader in Stuttering research and treatments? See: The Australian Stuttering Research Centre. But first, let me tell you a story. Many years [...]

This is a guest post by Gordon Forth, a fellow student at Armidale Teachers College, who started there in 1962, a year after me. Gordon writes: Please find attached my [...]