The Transit Lounge

Susan Best 

One sunny Saturday morning I was cleaning the house, listening to a Fiona Apple song called “The Child is Gone,” when the lyric caught my attention and stopped me in my tracks:
I ran my hand over strange inversion
A vacancy that just did not belong — The child is gone.

Meera Atkinson

Australia is often touted as a “peaceful” nation, and many Australian express heartfelt gratitude for living in a country free of mass violent conflict and home turf warfare, a country of seeming plenty where its citizens are free to study, work and prosper, to raise children they can be confident will grow up to adulthood, all in the atmosphere of a generally temperate climate and “relaxed lifestyle”.

Meera Atkinson 

Just minutes from Perth's city centre, with a railway line running by it and the Graham Farmer Freeway nearby, City Farm is a green oasis amongst the concrete. Started over ten years ago on land which had been set aside for a carpark, the community permaculture garden was the brainchild of Rosanne Scott.

Meera Atkinson 

There are many occupations that involve danger, instability, or daily threat of failure. But no career challenges a person’s ability to survive quite like politics.

Meera Atkinson

Stem cell research is one of the most exciting developments in medical research and one of the most controversial issues of our time.