Sunday Essay
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Sunday essay: ‘I said no’ – Nie’s refusal and the troubling question of Pacific slavery in Australia
Image: A Pacific island woman with a child planting sugar cane in a field, Bingara, Queensland, c 1897. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.In...
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Sunday essay: ‘but we already had a treaty’ – Tom Griffiths on a little known 1889 peace accord
Image: Josh Gorringe at the Debney Peace site in 2019. Photo: Tom GriffithsAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and/or...
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Sunday essay: how the West discovered the Buddha
Image: ShutterstockBuddhism is the third largest (and fastest growing) religion in Australia with approximately half a million adherents.The celebration of the Buddha’s birthday here...
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Sunday essay: writing poems across oceans, cultures and emails – John Kinsella on creative collaboration
John Kinsella, top right, and (clockwise), Kwame Dawes, Thurston Moore and Charmaine Papertalk Green. Courtesy Tamati Smith, The Thurston Moore Group, the University of NebraskaMy...
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Sunday essay: hunger, dust-storms, war – how I defied the odds as a South Sudanese child refugee
Akuch Kuol Anyieth pictured in Melbourne with her mother Mary. Author providedMy name is Akuch Kuol Anyieth. I am South Sudanese by birth, Kenyan by...
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Sunday essay: empathy or division? On the science and politics of storytelling
Why don’t chimpanzees rule the world? Is storytelling - the mysterious glue that enables millions of humans to cooperate effectively - the answer? ShutterstockWriters can’t...
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Sunday essay: ‘this is our library’ – how to read the amazing archive of First Nations stories written on rock
Image: Josie Maralngurra touching her hand stencil made when she was around 12. In the background are three white barramundi fish figures with red...
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Sunday essay: single parenting with a disability – how my 9-year-old daughter became my carer in shining armour
Shakira Hussein (seated in chair) with daughter Adalya Nash Hussein. Photo by Leah Jing McIntosh. Author providedMy daughter started to describe me as disabled long before I...
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Sunday essay: How leftist, feminist poet Dame Mary Gilmore became ‘Aunt Mary’ in the PM’s political narrative
Images: Wikimedia Commons and AAP/EPA/Erik S. LesserDame Mary Gilmore died at 97 in late 1962, two and a half years before the birth of...
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Sunday essay: ‘fair game’, racial shame and the women who demanded more
Image: Brittany Higgins and Grace Tame at the National Press Club last month. Mick Tsikas/AAPSexual politics is difficult terrain for young people to navigate. Desire,...
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