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After returning to the US, a former Eureka Street editor had to remind himself "just which side of the language [he] was supposed to be on". All the years in Australia coming to terms with '-re' and '-our' suffixes made finding the 'center' of an American document more 'labor-intensive' than it used to be.
Robert Hefner is a former Acting Editor and Assistant Editor of Eureka Street. He was Literary Editor of The Canberra Times from 1988 to 2000 and currently works as a freelance writer and sub-editor at The Age newspaper.
After many thousands of years, modernity is sweeping away nomadic existence. Cosmologies such as Aboriginal Dreaming encode irreplaceable knowledge of the natural world, and nomadic cultures emphasise qualities of tolerance, adaptability and human interconnectedness.
Robert Hefner sees more than just coincidence in these weather patterns.
Robert Hefner catches Tim Flannery’s enthusiasm for our most famous marsupial in Country.
For Michele Gierck, the publication of her first book is the culmination of a journey that began seven years ago.
Robert Hefner speaks with Morag Fraser and Peter Steele about the qualities that made Eureka Street a special magazine.
Reviews of Carry Me Down, Great Australian Racing Stories, The Story of Christianity and Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia
Robert Hefner reviews Hannie Rayson’s Two Brothers.
Robert Hefner meets the outspoken editor of Harper’s Magazine, Lewis H. Lapham.
Robert Hefner recalls a special woman and a special place in Food for Thought at Manning Clark House, edited by Sandy Forbes and Janet Reeves.
If our actions are contributing to a climate which makes catastrophic hurricanes more likely, surely we owe it to the dead, maimed and homeless to examine those actions more closely.
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