Robert Skinner

Robert Skinner WRITERS & CONTRIBUTORS

16 ENTRIES Robert Skinner is the author of I’d Rather Not.



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Culture

How to make it in business

Succumbing to the Ponzi scheme of publishing a national short-story magazine

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Society

Car sick

When the satisfaction of being your own mechanic turns to the unease of driving a car you have put together yourself

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Society

A fisherman’s lament

A solo road trip back to harsh realities

Rough draught

Society

Rough draught

Keeping up appearances during periods of homelessness

How I fought off a robodebt

Politics

How I fought off a robodebt

One man’s battle against the confounding maths of a Centrelink robodebt

A very early retirement

Society

A very early retirement

One man’s pursuit of a life without work

On the road to Gundagai

Society

On the road to Gundagai

An unexpected stop prompts the question: Just what is the deal with the Dog on the Tuckerbox?

Lessons from camels

Society

Lessons from camels

A 10-day camel trek through the South Australian outback. With your parents.

The stopover

Society

The stopover

The prospect of 12 hours in Singapore airport gives rise to an existential crisis

Illustration

article

The perfect host

There’s more to throwing a party than putting out some dips

A beautiful mess

Society

A beautiful mess

When European Christmas meets Australian suburbia

The art of tour guiding

Society

The art of tour guiding

When you’re driving a bus full of tourists through the Australian outback, a packet of chewing gum may be your only hope

The dying art of hitchhiking

article

The dying art of hitchhiking

Catching a ride with strangers is harder than it looks

My brief and successful career as a landscape labourer

blog

My brief and successful career as a landscape labourer

I had a brief and successful career as a landscape labourer. We were building some big park for a new residential community. It was my job to dig trenches, lay pipes and trudge around while everyone else rode on the machines. It was 41 degrees in the …

Illustration of woman in yoga pose with an empty thought bubble

Society

We don’t daydream now we have iPhones

Last year we celebrated New Year’s in one of Australia’s worst towns. There was no phone reception and no way of contacting the outside world, which explained in part why people persisted living there. It was a seaside town. The tides there were enormous. …

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