Every Stolen Moment opens with a gory discovery: the dead body of the Supreme Court of Victoria’s most conservative and polarising judge, the Honourable Harry Somerton. Chapters alternate between the ...

In the 19th century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony who could supply them with exotic specimens, ...

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In 1998, an apparently ordinary Australian man is arrested and charged with a series of brutal murders of backpackers along a highway. The news shocks the nation, bringing both horror and resolution ...

'Take three dresses ... one to wash, one to wear and one spare.' When Wanda Gibson was a little girl, her mum would tell her this as they packed to go on holidays. Wanda grew up on Hope Vale Mission ...

In 1963 – a year of agitation for civil rights worldwide – the Yolŋu of northeast Arnhem Land created the Yirrkala Bark Petitions: Näku Dhäruk. ‘The land grew a tongue’ and the land-rights movement ...

In Heavy Petting, four queer art-adjacent 30-somethings move to the town of Casino in northern New South Wales to avoid Melbourne’s strict Covid-19 lockdowns. Sharing a home during the pandemic, their ...

‘The city was stuffed full of wickedness, everyone knew that...’ Banished to the Midwatch Institute for Orphans, Runaways and Unwanted Girls, Maggie Fishbone is sure she’s in for a life of drudgery.

The Medusa Situation joins the Greek goddess Hera and her Olympian family as they accept their forced divine retirement and live out their immortality in the Aussie suburbs. Their once exciting, ...

Written amid the COVID lockdowns of 2020–21, Jake Goetz’s Holocene Pointbreaks presents a triptych of long poems that link three unique ecologies located on the Countries of the Dharawal and Eora ...

From one of this country’s leading Indigenous journalists comes a collection of fierce and powerful essays proving why the media needs to believe Black Witnesses. Amy McQuire has been writing on ...

Amy, Jin and their daughter Lucie are leading isolated lives in their partially renovated, inner city home. They are not happy, but they are also terrified of change. When they buy a pet rabbit for ...