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Booze Territory Short Black 6 by Anna Krien
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Category: Essays | Series: Short Blacks
On a Tuesday morning, I make my way to the Gap View Hotel for a drinking session starting at 10 a.m. I'm told this is one of Alice Springs' three notorious 'animal bars' ... As I wander around, a Sudanese security guard approaches me, his face concerned. Am I lost? he wants to know. In a way, I am. I do ...Show more
Fat City Short Black 2 by Karen Hitchcock
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Category: Classics | Series: Short Blacks
'I ask a young 200-kilo patient what he snacks on. 'Nothing,' he says. I look him in the eye. Nothing? He nods. I ask him about his chronic skin infections, his diabetes. He tears up: 'I eat hot chips and fried dim sims and drink three bottles of Coke every afternoon. The truth is I'm addicted to eating ...Show more
Killing the Black Dog: Short Black 10 by Les Murray
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Category: Essays | Series: Short Blacks
'On the last day of 1985, I went home to live in Bunyah, the farming valley I had left some twenty-nine years earlier. My wife and our younger children followed two days later ...at last I was going home, to care for my father in his old age and to live in the place from which I'd always felt displaced. ...Show more
No Fixed Address Short Black 11 by Robyn Davidson
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Category: Essays | Series: Short Blacks
In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu Sadhu, leaving behind family and wealth to live as a beggar; the pilgrims of Compostela walking away their sins; the circumambulators of the Buddhist ko ...Show more
Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice Short Black 4 by Helen Garner
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Category: Essays | Series: Short Blacks
'They say that tourist ships to Antarctica, even more than ordinary human conveyances, are loaded down with aching hearts. Deceived wives and widowers, men who've never been loved and don't know why, Russian crew forced to leave their children behind for years at a time ...And then there are the married ...Show more
The Brave Ones: East Timor, 1999: Short Black 5 by John Birmingham
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Category: Essays | Series: Short Blacks
'As the convoy growled and squeaked to a halt in the dark, angry militiamen and soldiers began to shout and wave at the Australians, demanding they move aside. The Brave Ones' vanguard presented as a B-movie vision of some pirate biker gang from Hell, a rat bastard outfit in black tee-shirts, camouflage ...Show more
The One Day by David Malouf
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Category: Essays | Series: Short Blacks (Number 7) | Reading Level: very good
'Silence was a deeply established tradition. Men used it as a form of self-protection; it saved those who had experienced the horrors of war from the emotional trauma of experiencing it all over again in the telling. And it saved women and children, back home, from the terrible knowledge of what they ha ...Show more
The War of the Worlds Short Black 3 by Noel Pearson
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Category: Essays | Series: Short Blacks
'How many Australians born in the 137 years since Truganini's death learnt her legend and scarcely thought deeper about the enormity of the loss she represented, and the history that led to it? Her spirit casts a long shadow over Australian history, but we have nearly all of us found a way to avert our ...Show more
Tradition, Truth & Tomorrow: Short Black 12 by Galarrwuy Yunupingu
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Short Blacks
I will continue my work on my land, building a future. It is the only thing that is certain to me now and I want to advance while I can. I am trying to light the fire in our young men and women. We are setting fires to our own lives as we really should, and the flame will burn and intensify - an immense ...Show more
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