Placement

Culture
In the Zone Sam Doctor’s images from Fukushima
by Leon Batchelor
“It’s like when parents have a missing child and they keep the bedroom in the same way.”
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Issues
Correspondence
Tale of a Trip Advisor A Letter from Bali
by Clint Caward
The high-pressure system of TripAdvisor shadowed the resort manager’s days. A dark cloud, it followed him home, sometimes entered his dreams. He lived in terror of a bad review.
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Issues
A View to Die For Final notice for people who kill trees
by Drew Rooke
Poison allows them to commit their crime – often in the dead of night – quickly and quietly. Usually, the poison is administered via holes drilled into the trunk. Afterwards, it looks as if the tree has been shot.
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Expression
The Way a Turtle Knows for Llewyn
by Pip Smith
Shh. The evening is turning green and the trees are inching closer... they will keep our sleep forested with birds that are fast vanishing from the world.
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Issues
Correspondence
No Longer at Liberty Changing NYC’s statues
by Ian Keldoulis
Are we creating an eternal city of the spotless mind?
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Issues
Slave to the Rhythm Private job providers and their tactics of humiliation
by Julie Carroll
It is designed this way to deter people from being on welfare, as it's too hard and they drop out, saving the government money. The job agencies are just Centrelink compliance offices.
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Features
The Dead Kangaroo A road of mythical proportions is being dreamed up beneath Rozelle
by Leon Batchelor
The proposed Rozelle interchange is a paranoid maze of linking roads and bypasses that connect everything to just about everything, including future motorway projects.
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Issues
Saving the Soul of Kings Cross Developers plan to gut the Bourbon and Beefsteak and much of historic Darlinghurst Road
by Sonya Voumard
The terms “village atmosphere” and “boutique lifestyle” are being bandied about to the mirth of residents fearful the development will deliver their opposite.
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Features
Banksy Goes to Bethlehem The artist’s new venture: The Walled Off hotel
by Jan Dalley
“Seeing the disparity between the two sides was shocking, because you could see the inequality was entirely avoidable.” – Banksy
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Next Door
Vanessa Berry
by Mark Mordue
Next Door with the author of 'Mirror Sydney': “A lot of my childhood was spent in a car. Looking out in wonder through the glass."
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Culture
Review
Sweet Country Our silent, violent history
by Rochelle Siemienowicz
Tense and beautiful, Sweet Country is utterly gripping from the first scene, an extreme close-up of white sugar being stirred into black tea and boiling in a billy, while racist violence occurs off screen, heard but not seen.
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Issues
Blinded by the Type #MeToo, feminist slogans and revolutionary t-shirts
by Helen Razer
“As it turned out, the future wasn’t the feminist one I’d longed for...“
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