A determined Papuan young woman leaves her struggling village to enter service in Sydney but falls for her employer’s engaged son. When he becomes seriously ill and her employer touches her inappropriately she decides to leave without telling the son, who in the meantime has dumped his fiancé. Ashamed, the young woman hides from her family in a different town in PNG and remembers how…
In the early 1990’s I was convinced, by a New Zealand friend, that I should walk the Milford Track. The Milford Track consists of a 50 km walk conducted over four and a half days. The walk traverses some of the most pristine and unique country in the world. Visitors to the South Island of New Zealand can undertake the walk, guided or unguided. If…
“to dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily…to not dare is to lose oneself” – Soren Kierkegaard. The New Zealand winter was bitterly cold. Finding himself outside the imposing iron gates of the frozen park, Jonathon attempts to quell his growing sense of dislocation. In spite of his reluctance to accept his new life here, he is instinctively drawn to the eerie park where he…
