Journalist Matthew Condon meets young activist Drew Pavlou, who sparked international headlines in 2019. The thing you learn very quickly about Drew Pavlou is that he is a certified, card-carrying member of Generation Z. He…
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Where Coal Is King
Author and journalist Matthew Condon turns his attention from true crime in the big city to one of our biggest industries in one of our smallest towns. To meet the young Dowie family – Marie…
The Year of Living Dangerously
Journalist Mattew Condon reflects on the year that was 2020, and looks forward to 2021. You sit, weary, the television news drifting to you from the other room, and simply close your eyes. Record November…
Kev’s Country
It’s a cool Thursday afternoon on the back roads of Stanthorpe, on the Granite Belt just inside the Queensland border, and Kev Carmody is having trouble clicking in his seatbelt. The car is filled with…
Shot in the Heart
From space, Uluru appears as a rust-coloured shard of rock resting on a piece of deep green velvet cloth, the fabric smooth around the fragment’s immediate perime- ter, then fanning out in gentle rills and…