Anna Krien
The Nation Reviewed
Drawn Faces: The Last of the Court Artists
Anna Krien
Fay Plamka wheels her $20 Dimmeys suitcase into Courtroom 1 of the Melbourne Magistrates Court and settles herself near the dock. As the...
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The Monthly Essays, Online Only
Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals
Anna Krien
It was around midnight when I got off the tram at the last stop in Melbourne’s north. As the doors locked behind me, two men, one bare-...
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Us and Them. Anna Krien on the Importance of Animals
Anna Krien
For the first time in history, humans sit unchallenged at the top of the food chain. As we encroach on the wild and a vast wave of...
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The Monthly Essays
Booze Territory: The Crisis of Alcoholism
Anna Krien
“2 pm,” comes the answer. “Oh,” I nod. I’m about to get back into my car when I realise the woman is talking about the bottle shop. “You...
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Sex, footy and scandal. Anna Krien and Tony Wilson
In the April 2011 issue of The Monthly , Anna Krien wrote an article about the scandal that engulfed the AFL community, involving 16-year-...
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The Monthly Essays
Out of Bounds: Sex and the AFL
Anna Krien
Proclaiming to be speaking on behalf of all women mistreated by footballers, she had in January attended St Kilda’s first training session...
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The Nation Reviewed
Taste-Making: Food Technology and the Manufacture of Flavours
Anna Krien
Jeroen Rens and I are in a small room, wearing hairnets and fluorescent-orange lab coats, looking at plastic drink bottles inside a fridge...
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Anna Krien
“Until recently I’ve been pretty half-hearted about Welcome to Country,” Jack Charles confesses as he faces a room of social workers at a...
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Into the Woods: Anna Krien in conversation
Anna Krien
In conversation with Alan Attwood (The Big Issue), author and journalist Anna Krien talks about the writing of her new book, Into the Woods...
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Trouble on the Night Shift: Rescue and remembrance in the creek beds of the desert
Anna Krien
The Ti Tree Aboriginal night patrol consists of five blackfellas whose unpaid job is to stop grog runners. Ti Tree might be a dry zone but...
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