It’s a bright Thursday afternoon, and I am standing in an inner-city McDonald’s parking lot in Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, Canada. I’m trying to look inconspicuous. I feel the darting eyes of a security...
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Heat, holidays and homelessness, the housing crisis of Broome
I drove into Broome just before Easter weekend. The air was still swollen with humidity from the tail end of the wet season. A sign for welcoming tourists along Old Broome Road had been graffitied over with the word HOPE. In the...
Motherhood: a journey of heartbreak and love.
My step-grandmother Janet Dorrington was 15 when her life transformed. Her story of forced adoption has been told at dinner tables, over glasses of wine and candles, slowly dying. Sitting outside around a table in her Canberra...