I was introduced to Uncle Adam at a Close the Gap event in West End, Brisbane. Close the Gap events are held regularly to improve the health of Aboriginal ..
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We started talking about writing first. In a Brisbane cafe. Then about the belonging project I’m working on, architecture, urban planning and how the three ..
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“I did this course, an Alpha course, about ten years ago. We just all talk and you learn and you grow within this course. And then we went into the chapel ..
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“I grew up in this Asian bubble in Sunnybank (Brisbane). You know you have people who have been here twenty, thirty years and they still don’t speak a lot ..
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On working on an oil rig, Formula One racing, and how having no place to call home drives change It’s Ramadan and Yassmin was up late last night. After ..
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GARETH One evening instant Just a breath Through the front door, Children. Lover. Calm. It never lasts. * * * The times I walked out the door The times ..
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MORGAN-ROSE Out in the world and inside my young body there was no room for myself. After the fights and before they split swaying on a wooden swing the cocoon ..
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JASMINE In the slick dark damp of winter London Through the smokey pallor and beer-soiled carpet Jasmine inhales the fresh rush of ocean waves, The infinite ..
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on the hidden delights of being an outsider, learning to disappear, and how searching for belonging from place can lead us astray When Alison grows up she wants ..
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It’s a wet and rainy Friday in Sydney and I’m late for my meeting with the director of Sweatshop, a literacy movement homed at Western Sydney University. ..
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