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Posted inCurrent Events, Featured, Highlight, Nonfiction, Podcasts, Writing

Trapped in Limbo Down Under

by Seyward Darby December 7, 2020October 19, 2022

In Australia, some 30,000 people live in a state of legal uncertainty crafted by politicians.

Posted inCulture, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Writing

The Secrets of a Hidden Diary

by Seyward Darby December 4, 2020October 19, 2022

A hidden diary, a love story, and a mystery.

Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Why Is Australia Deporting So Many Maori and Pacific Islanders?

by Aaron Gilbreath July 18, 2018October 19, 2022

Why are 60% of the New Zealanders deported from Australia Maori or Pacific Islanders?

Posted inBlog Post, Profiles & Interviews

Our Planet Still Has Secrets: Talking Tasmanian Tigers with Journalist Brooke Jarvis

by Aaron Gilbreath July 5, 2018October 19, 2022

Investigating the people who search for the extinct Tasmanian Tiger.

Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature

Here Be Tigers

by Aaron Gilbreath June 27, 2018October 19, 2022

If thousands of Australians claim to have seen the Tasmanian Tiger in the wild, then did it really go extinct in 1936?

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Don’t Let the Camels Bite You, and Other Lessons from a Long Walk in the Outback

by Pam Mandel August 31, 2017October 19, 2022

“…the camels were always looking around as they walked, with a prospective optimism that eluded us.”

chocolate cupcakes with pink and white heart-shaped sprinkles
Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Quotes

Are We Swallowing Culinary Propaganda?

by Shane Cubis May 31, 2017October 19, 2022

In Australia, cupcakes are deployed to wage holy war against halal meat.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Halal Chops and Fascist Cupcakes

by benhuberman May 29, 2017October 19, 2022

A story about food, Islamophobia, and a rising tide of Australian nationalism.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes

What It’s Like to Drown

by Krista Stevens February 16, 2017October 19, 2022

Fenella Souter reports in detail on what it’s like to drown

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes

Giving the Ultimate Gift: Granting the Wish to Die at Home

by Krista Stevens February 15, 2017October 19, 2022

Andrew McMillen writes on palliative care as a critical service, and of the “power and the grace” required to care for those who are terminally ill and grant their dying wish: to die peacefully, at home.

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