I don’t see myself as deeply superstitious, but I won’t walk under a ladder or clean my flat on the first day of the Lunar New Year. There’s a practical element to not walking under a ladder; not cleaning my flat on New Year’s day, however, is purely symbolic.
Read MoreThe land I inhabit, my family home, is a forest of sorts. This part of northern New South Wales was once cleared pasture, but my parents started planting before they even built the house, and nearly forty years on it’s a green jungle.
Read MoreMonkey Grip is a story about the implicit difficulties of the loving, hurting, caring, fighting, winning and losing that are all part of the monkey grip that grabs each of us at least once in our lives.
Read MoreThe film The Hunter is based on the book of the same name by Julia Leigh, which was published in 1999. It’s been described by one reviewer as “Australian biotech gothic”, which I think is an apt description...
Read MoreLooking at some of the essays and reviews that have been written about Wake in Fright, there’s a lot of discussion about the meaning of the journey the protagonist, John Grant, undergoes.
Read MoreI want to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, and to pay my respects to elders past and present.
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