FictionYOUR LAWYER – A woman, for Chrissakes, young and Australian – is making you do some last-minute prep-prep-prepping. That’s really what she calls it: ‘prep-prep-prepping’. But you do not want to prep-prep-prep. You want to lie down, rest your eyes and...

EssayWHEN IT CAME to colourful and controversial views, the long-time mayor of Port Augusta, Joy Baluch, set elite standards: ‘I hate sport,’ she said in 2008: I’ve never had time for it, been too busy looking after a family, you...

GR OnlineIN 2014, EIGHTEEN years after Paul Keating lost the prime ministership, a collection of his prize insults appeared in print. The fact that Black Inc. chose to publish such a book, even as a stocking filler, suggests that I...

FictionBEN BASTER ARRIVED mid-afternoon in the city that his guidebook called an "exotic and teeming tropical metropolis". After a long stopover at Changi Airport, followed by a turbulent three-hour flight, followed by a debilitating drive in an airless mini-van...

FictionGORDON NEVER RUNS his own errands but he banged on my door at 4 am and ordered me to catch the under-the-radar dawn flight to Emergent.'I don't know if you've heard,' I said, standing in the doorway in my...