Kerrie Lee writes . . . Travelling by underground railway can be a disorienting experience. You pop up through a hole in the ground, blinking like a nocturnal creature suddenly thrust into the light. Especially if you’ve never been there before, it can take a while to get your bearings.
Not so [...]

Kerrie Lee writes . . . Wellington and I first became acquainted when I was a very young cadet reporter, a fledgling fresh out of the nest. But, unlike my avian counterparts, I didn’t fly across the Tasman – rather, I travelled from Sydney by ship, which I felt to be a romantic and [...]

Kerrie Lee writes . . . 3am. The big-bellied aircraft droned overhead, pregnant not with life but with death, for this was the Indochina campaign which came to be known as the Christmas bombing of Hanoi. We lay beneath the mosquito net, hearing the engines buzz and fade as the [...]

Kim Woods Rabbidge writes . . . Just as sometimes it’s wise not to throw out your old clothes, because if you wait a decade or two they’ll come back into fashion, garden styles are also recycled. We’ve come through rectangular beds of annuals or vegetables, straight paths and immaculate lawns; 1970s native gardens [...]

Kerrie Lee writes . . . In the cool light of a September morning, a farm labourer, Stephen, was gathering wood when he came upon a young woman sitting by the swimming dam in a stupor. At her side was a small child, lying still. Alarmed by their appearance, he “cooee’d” [...]

Kerrie Lee writes . . . During the early 1970s, the well-worn hippie trail from South-East Asia to Europe had its own communication network, elegant in its simplicity and singularly effective. At its core was verbal interaction. We were travelling west and, as our paths relentlessly crossed with those heading the other way, we’d [...]