You knew how it would be before you came: your dreams take root in an alien sky; wither; you watch them die; and hark back to immensities of beach, a light-sluiced tidal flat where mangroves grasp the air tenaciously, and slow waves creep; a faded dwelling-place, its timbers bleaching like an upturned hull; lament of gulls, the shriek of lorikeets
When the ‘White Australia’ immigration policy was finally dismantled in 1973 a door of opportunity o...
Evening. Dye from prayer flags mounted on bamboo poles runs into the western sky. They have fluttere...
Mangroves are different worlds at different times during the tidal cycle. Each turn of the tide shif...
We three women walked to the cove. Silver, the long light, swans drifting, pied cormorants on guar
In tropical wrack zones, where sand, mud and churning fresh and salty water currents negotiate a shi...
the trees not evergreen so much as evergrey within that ghastly blank of an empty centre and alien m...
It is 2001. 438 refugees sit in a boat called Tampa off the shoreline of Australia, while the TV and...
Text of the Arthur Ravenscroft Memorial Lecture, delivered at the University of Leeds, 11 May 1998 I...
I was born in India, but two years later my family were in Australia, part of the flotsam and jetsam...
In the end, most went down to the ships. Some we name. Others drowned in the straits, or were abando...
Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Mangroves have always been present in my life growing...
The relationship between gravity, the moon and the ocean translates into the regular rhythm of tides...
Forget the bird\u27s-eye view; from a bus window you can touch gutters on both sides of the street
Migrants are mobile by definition. They literally uproot themselves and move to sometimes-distant la...
Indian diaspora has been spread across the world vividly, and each phase records different character...
When the ‘White Australia’ immigration policy was finally dismantled in 1973 a door of opportunity o...
Evening. Dye from prayer flags mounted on bamboo poles runs into the western sky. They have fluttere...
Mangroves are different worlds at different times during the tidal cycle. Each turn of the tide shif...
We three women walked to the cove. Silver, the long light, swans drifting, pied cormorants on guar
In tropical wrack zones, where sand, mud and churning fresh and salty water currents negotiate a shi...
the trees not evergreen so much as evergrey within that ghastly blank of an empty centre and alien m...
It is 2001. 438 refugees sit in a boat called Tampa off the shoreline of Australia, while the TV and...
Text of the Arthur Ravenscroft Memorial Lecture, delivered at the University of Leeds, 11 May 1998 I...
I was born in India, but two years later my family were in Australia, part of the flotsam and jetsam...
In the end, most went down to the ships. Some we name. Others drowned in the straits, or were abando...
Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Mangroves have always been present in my life growing...
The relationship between gravity, the moon and the ocean translates into the regular rhythm of tides...
Forget the bird\u27s-eye view; from a bus window you can touch gutters on both sides of the street
Migrants are mobile by definition. They literally uproot themselves and move to sometimes-distant la...
Indian diaspora has been spread across the world vividly, and each phase records different character...
When the ‘White Australia’ immigration policy was finally dismantled in 1973 a door of opportunity o...
Evening. Dye from prayer flags mounted on bamboo poles runs into the western sky. They have fluttere...
Mangroves are different worlds at different times during the tidal cycle. Each turn of the tide shif...