Australia
Eye for Australia: 6

A bell-ringer, mid-climb: St David's Cathedral, Hobart, Tasmania.  
QANTAS: Dancing the Irish jig on the 'Spirit of Australia'

How Australia’s pride and joy came to be symbolised by a disruptive reedy-toned foreign yuppie ...  
Music Month celebrates the future of Australian talent

Welcome to November, which in recent years has been regarded as Australian Music Month... in some ...  
Eye for Australia: 5

Magda Szubanski is an Australian comedy icon and performer. She is an LGBTQ+-rights advocate a ...  
Eye for Australia: 4

Reflective beauty: Tasmania's sixth-highest mountain is situated in Cradle Mountain-Lake St ...  
Fixing all of Australia's ills on a wet Friday arvo: The Davo manifesto

It has come to my attention that this nation-state is in something of a sorry state.  
Eye for Australia: 3

Brothers Mathew and Edwin Lasich living on the land in Dargo, Victoria, 1990.  
Eye for Australia: 2

Late, great, Indigenous singer/songwriter Archie Roach — Heidelberg, Melbourne, 1991  
Eye for Australia: 1

Former athlete Cathy Freeman pictured during training at Melbourne’s Olympic Park in preparation ...  
Sudden-death shootout sees Australia win FIFA victory over France

Soccer fans witnessed an epic showdown as Australia claimed an exciting victory against France on ...  
POEM: Dramas from Down Under

This poem is an *IA Writing Competition (fiction category) entry.  
Say 'okay' to Australia Day in May

There is an alternative date for Australia Day that holds historical significance and would be a ...  
Better 'Believe' the DMA's have got you covered

From country to rock, indie to Indigenous, it's been an exciting week for Australian music, ...  
Grey nomads

This short story is an *IA Writing Competition (fiction category) entry.  
A warning

This poem is an IA Writing Competition (fiction category) entry.  
It’s only right if it's done by the Right — otherwise it’s just not cricket

For those who move in elite circles, there is really only one rule: it’s never wrong if it’s ...  
Last refugee leaves Nauru: Cruel processing regime to stay

Although the last refugee has left Australia's much-criticised offshore detention centre on Nauru ...  
Vale Barry Humphries: Possums to gather at Opera House for chunder session

Dr Lee Duffield remembers the creator and personifier of Dame Edna Everage, and judges his life ...  

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