A SPINIFEX FEMINIST CLASSIC

In this collection of essays, performance pieces, poetry and prose, mother as noun, appendage and agenda is mined for meaning in the contemporary world. Mothers are spectacular, for every child there is a mother even if unknown. Is she a bad mother, a good mother, a TV mother, a kitchen mother, an immortal mother, a devil mother, an immaculate mother? Is she the...

Namawi rawul-inyeri thulun-ar: Our footprints come from the past. From our ancestors to us, we are the traditional owners, still guiding our young ones, connecting the Stolen Generations back to family and country, standing strong in our history and culture and heritage Listen to Ngarrindjeri Women Speaking Kungun Ngarrindjeri Miminar Yunnan Ngarrindjeri women came to prominence in the...

The wet came that year with a cock-eye-bob; loud thunder, ragged streams of lightning and a wind of awful fury ... Now there was nothing in the whole wide river but tossing water, uprooted trees, a few bandicoots and kangaroo rats feebly struggling still, and an old wooden cradle carved with grapes and acanthus leaves in which a dirty brown baby sat drooling with bubbles at his mouth, snatching...

A SPINIFEX FEMINIST CLASSIC

A Spinifex feminist classic, and winner of the Angus and Robertson manuscript prize.

Growing up in a rural working-class home, Maureen Craig rebels against her angry mother, the privileges of her favoured brother and the relentless conformity of 1950s Australia. University promises a new world both terrifying and exhilarating in its challenges. She explores her...