Things We Found in the Move
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After ten days of phone calls not returned and emails unanswered, we realised that some of the people involved in letting the house might dislike gay people.
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Plasticity
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My friend sounded like some kind of bitter extremist. Even if I knew she was right, she was spoiling our fun.
Read MoreKa-ta Tju-ta and my Father's Map
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There are those who use the old names in the pursuit of a misguided principle — that English speakers have a right to hegemony, to be the unquestioned namers of everything on the Australian islands.
Read MoreBig Flag Day at Home
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They are playing that slow-baked game called cricket — the pace of which accommodates inebriation and lethargy so well.
Read MoreElevated by Concrete Sails
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The Opera House is built on Bennelong Point, named for the multilingual Dharug man who became a cultural educator for the founding Governor of the New South Wales colony. Intelligent and funny, Bennelong traveled to England -- got stuck there for years. Perhaps he learned more than he wanted about the subjugation of his people
Read MoreLouise and the Black Leather Jacket Crowd
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I saw Louise Hay speak in Australia in the eighties. It was perhaps her first visit. My friends and I were trying hard to dislike her. She addressed an audience of HIV positive people and their supporters, overwhelmingly gay men with their partners and friends, at the height of the AIDs terror.
Read MoreEye to eye
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The non-verbal skills of many Anangu people are born of hunting. If you’re looking for someone, you can make a sign for that person across a street or car park. The person you are signalling might use their lips or eyes to point in the appropriate direction.
Read MoreThings We Lost in the Move
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Back at our more peaceful house, the list of missing things had new additions every day. One of us would wake the other in the dead of night: “Have you seen my kitchen scissors?”
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