December 20, 2018
Close to Home: Selected Writings
Culture
Welcome to The Summer Library: selected extracts from the best new books this summer
Alice Pung
By this author
December 1, 2017
Home truths
Society
Ah Gong and Ah Mah move into a culturally diverse aged-care facility
April 1, 2015
Delible ink
Society
Even tattoos don’t last forever any more
May 1, 2014
Who is the ordinary reasonable person?
nation_reviewed
The trouble with repealing section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
July 1, 2013
Methadone and pho
Society
A day in a drug treatment centre
February 1, 2013
The secret life of them
essay
What it takes to shift class in Australia
March 2, 2012
Flag of Convenience
Australia Day in Pyalong
June 30, 2010
Hair apparent
Society
Mr Abe Lourie is 81, and tells me that he is in perfect health. Every morning he walks up two flights of stairs to open his store. The lift has been broken for quite some time and yet customers continue to come up, because for half a century he has helped …
January 27, 2010
Border crossings
Society
John Safran’s ‘Race Relations’
July 3, 2009
Chinese whispers
arts
Zachary Mexico’s ‘China Underground’
May 6, 2009
School days
Society
‘Ladies' is such a salacious word when slurred by young men, but when enunciated by a carefully coiffured middle-aged lady to a mass of Year 10 girls it is a severe admonition not to move. I wondered how long it would take to set the limbs of adolescent …
February 4, 2009
Looking sheepish
Society
“Sheep’s placenta for the face is all the rage among Chinese women,” my father said. All his mainland-Chinese friends told him that this was the perfect gift for me to give when I went to Beijing: lanolin oil containing adventurous admixtures of …