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April 1, 2022Both barrels
The author’s diaries record the early months of a year with change in the air
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April 1, 2022Both barrels
The author’s diaries record the early months of a year with change in the air
Society
October 1, 2021Helen Garner’s lockdown diaries, 2021
Notes from Melbourne as the pandemic persists
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October 1, 2020The lockdown diaries
Melbourne in the time of pandemic
Culture
December 2, 2019Diaries (2018–19)
Collected thoughts on writers seeking permission to write, Eurydice Dixon, the Nobel for Murnane and dealing with errant chooks
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November 1, 2018How you are when you leave
This must be how it feels to retire
Society
September 1, 2018Courtroom drama, Broadmeadows style
The hopeful and the hapless flow through a magistrates’ court
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July 1, 2018A sorry procession
A day in the life of the Geelong Magistrates’ Court
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May 1, 2018The court networkers
Volunteers make visiting courtrooms less of a trial
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June 1, 2017Why she broke
The woman, her children and the lake: Akon Guode’s tragic story
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June 7, 2016Going the bloody hard way
Notes on Micheline Lee’s ‘The Healing Party’
Culture
July 1, 2015The darkness in every one of us
The author of ‘This House of Grief’ and ‘Joe Cinque’s Consolation’ on writing about darkness
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May 1, 2015The insults of age
A one-woman assault on condescension
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October 1, 2014Mother courage
At home with Rosie Batty
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April 1, 2014A funny thing happened on the way to Adelaide
A car accident brings an unlikely collection of people together
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November 1, 2012Death in Brunswick
The rooftop bar was buzzing, late on a warm Friday afternoon. My friend and I found a spot under an umbrella and ordered up. Each of us was secretly longing to talk about the fact that the cops had charged a man with the rape and murder of Jill Meagher, …