We all need a roof in the rain
What does it say about Australia that 100,000 sleep rough every night? Tony Birch sheds some light on society’s invisible people.
Creative – Page 16
“University is Not Seen as a Black Space”
Dr Katelyn Barney on the need to create pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students into Research Higher Degrees.
Artistic Dreaming – Women, Art and Empowerment in La Perouse
By Jacqui Fetchet. This article is part of our April and May focus on Art and Human Rights. “For me the idea of a blank canvas is one of the most empowering things – the thought that you can do anything, go anywhere, say whatever you want. It is freedom of speech. For my people it […]
Preserves Project
By Berni M Janssen. This article is part of our April and May focus on Art and Human Rights The Preserves Project is a multi-arts project celebrating the ways people from different cultural backgrounds preserve, share and pass on what they value. The trees are heavy with fruit, not every year, but when the season has […]
Poem – Outcast
By Lizz Murphy This poem is part of our April and May focus on Art and Human Rights. Lizz Murphy has read her poetry in cafés and courthouses, feasts and festivals, schools and sculleries. She moved to the bush (Binalong NSW) over thirty years ago for fresh air and country schools and before long found […]
A conversation on the train
By Asher Hirsch This article is part of our April and May focus on Art and Human Rights Sometimes, when I have the courage and my camera with me, I ask people on the train if I can take their photo. Usually this doesn’t turn out to be so interesting, and often I never use […]
Life Vessel
By B.S.Clifford. They were lined up along the dock, I couldn’t tell if they were enemies or friends. Bobbing up and down, Up and down, Gracefully and silently In the cold and inky black water. They were tied up, In pairs or by themselves. They were waiting their turn. Waiting And aging. They […]
Sonnet for the Refugees
But where shall we go to-day, my dear, but where shall we go to-day? We who watch the television and not a war so much, do not understand how, there, outside our lounge rooms, people unwillingly must leave their homes, unsure – chancing their families to criminals to provide safe passage in […]
HANDMADE (Creative Non-fiction)
By Meleesha Bardolia. This piece is part of our December 2012 and January 2013 focus on Asylum Seekers. People are sitting on the edge of Victoria Street, hunching over, legs angling apart. Saving their threads from psychedelic splatters of tandoori and dollops of tzatziki, Melbournians perch outside the Queen Victoria Night Market and feast. Entering the corridor […]
Sky Trail (Poem)
By Les Wicks. This poem is part of our December 2012 and January 2013 focus on Asylum Seekers. This one is or is called a witch perhaps. So she disappears, her only trick. Why travel? No home, (an inflexible, judged word – foolhardy for any to claim) but she was there a tough demountable equivalent. Some […]
Escape (Poem)
By William Pitt. This poem is part of our December 2012 and January 2013 focus on Asylum Seekers. Step – step – step –step – the world is much too large; I think I can see the end of land but there’s always more and more; why not sit down and count my thoughts? How wonderful to […]
My Sister’s Leg (Poem)
By Greg Pritchard. This poem is part of our December 2012 and January 2013 focus on Asylum Seekers. From where I am lying I can see my sister’s leg Like a long stemmed rose against marble My ears are ringing and all I hear is music The sun is warm and bathes us in orange light […]
It’s what she leaves behind
It’s what she leaves behind. It’s the devil in the detail. . For the future, a life in another, safer country, she dreams the big things…. hope for freedom for herself, to walk with her face bare to the sun, possibilities for her children to grow and learn in schools without threat, marriage for […]