By Cameron Joseph Walker An ambitious 17-minute single-take comedy filmed in Samford Village brings together more than 75 Queensland creatives in one of the region’s most technically demanding independent productions. Independent Australian short film Gorilla, Guerrilla has officially entered post-production…
By Charlotte Kelly There’s a contradictory quality to The World Belongs to the Children. On one hand, Raya Goldtwig’s lyrical memoir was 250 pages of beautifully told heartbreak. But on the other, I read most of this book on the train or bus…
By Sidra Farhang i opened my history book and searched all its pages to look for my people erased through the ages how stupid of me to forget the reality that truth had been buried denied by authority but i flicked through the book and searched page…
By Ollie Linton Darcy would like this desk, he thought, running his fingertips over the lacquered wood. It was the same one he had seen Darcy putting together through the window last Tuesday after he got home from the recording…
By Emily Sherwell First Summer is Ekin Oklap’s debut novel, centring around two girls on the cusp of adulthood who find solace in each other and their shared adoration of a children’s sci-fi novel. This is usually where I’d provide…
By Izabella K. North The boxes and bags are finally still –The ones that carried my life here,From one fragile estate to the next. The tracks ran north,and I too took that train –I watched. While the cows grazed amongst…
By Ella Gill Some friends we lose. Others we shouldn’t keep returning to and yet… we do. Pulled back by something neither logic nor distance can dissolve. Each time, the years fall away—like you were never apart at all. Frida…
By Tori Brown Our coach slows to a stop before the metal framework of the Queens’ Park. The horses whinny as our coachman dismounts his seat to open the door for us. I am sure that this proposition is a…
By Lillian Curthoys In May 2026, Jill Lepore asked readers of the New Yorker, “How do you bring an American-history textbook up to date when the country’s past has become a political battleground?”. Self-tasked with chronicling a history in the…
By Sienna Hanton Organisations across Queensland have called for support as volunteering numbers reduce across the state. In late 2025, Queensland Parliament’s Local Government, Small Business, and Customer Service Committee tabled its inquiry into volunteering in the state. The inquiry…
