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A mother’s crime
Family and relationships
They said you committed infanticide, but you don’t remember a thing. You were a loving mother before it happened. Postnatal depression, said the experts. It swept into you and one night five years ago you “snapped”. You fractured your son’s skull …
To Hell with Self-help
Books
JM Coetzee’s ‘The Childhood of Jesus’
Where there’s smoke
How the Morwell coal mine fire has made unlikely allies
The quest for Muslim Jedis
Society
John Safran’s new ABC TV project
The sound of silence
Society
Hiking the Milford Track, New Zealand
Sinking sandbanks
Society
When bankers fly in to Kiribati, a fine evening spread is put on at the main hotel. Blue-cardboard ironies are erected: squat sandwich boards and billowy banners advertising ANZ home loans. Yes, home loans, in a place global warming is meant to be washing …
Unhappy families
Culture
Sonya Hartnett’s ‘Butterfly’
Coup-coup land
Politics
Life under Fiji’s interim government
The ring cycle
Society
“How do I look?” my mother asks. “You look beautiful,” say the nurses. “Quite the stunner, young lady.” She looks every day her 84: crumpled paper for skin, red blue eyes in a pucker. Dementia is never about telling the truth. …
Trivial pursuit
Society
You miss out on medicine by five points and so you dedicate your life to trivia. Don't get eccentric on us, with your pointy bald head and smart-arse grin - we don't like those sorts of antics, mister. This is Melbourne, Australia, not England. But you, …
Repo man
nation_reviewed
You might have missed it a few months ago, this amusing aside in the daily news: during the auction of a flash rural property in the old-money recesses of the northern ranges outside Melbourne, two beefy blokes turned up, nosing about the place as if …
Not all black & white
Politics
Inside New Zealand’s social laboratory
Free house
nation_reviewed
Humans love getting something for nothing. Failing that, next to nothing. Picking up a $1-million inner-city Melbourne house for a $15,000 outlay, for instance. No, not by gambling, not in some casino's high-stakes spin-the-wheel game. There's a loophole …
