Ashley Hay

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25 ENTRIES Ashley Hay is a former editor of Griffith Review. Her books include Gum, and the novels The Railwayman’s Wife and A Hundred Small Lessons. She lives in Brisbane.



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Dream homes

Flood-prone houses are being demolished across Brisbane’s riverside suburbs, leaving unnervingly uniform blocks of bright green grass

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Society

Holy shark

Leonie the leopard shark’s switch to asexual reproduction is a world first

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Culture

Desert blooms

Bruce Munro’s ‘Field of Light’ brings 50,000 LED spheres to Uluru

The Ipswich treehouse story

Culture

The Ipswich treehouse story

Children’s lit heroes Andy Griffiths, Terry Denton and Jill Griffiths step off the page and onto the stage

Mosquito diplomacy

Indonesia

Mosquito diplomacy

A plan to stop dengue fever sets off invasion fears in Indonesia

How Cai Guo-Qiang turned a tree into a work of art

How Cai Guo-Qiang turned a tree into a work of art

‘Falling Back to Earth’ at Brisbane’s QAGOMA

Our septuagenarian cricketers

Society

Our septuagenarian cricketers

It’s never too late to wear the baggy green

Astronomy

Lights Out

Solar eclipse in Queensland

Astronomy

Veni, Vidi, Venus

The transit of Venus

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Society

The Baskerville case

Norfolk Island’s chickens

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Society

Operation tom yum

Perhaps it was because I'd just seen the trailer for the new James Bond movie, but I was hoping for trench coats or disguises when I sat down to lunch with a group of secret Thai-food tasters. Perched at one of the broad, high tables at Jarun Pompanya's …

Lovely bones

Society

Lovely bones

Making sense of the Flores find

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Society

The charm of a charm

Early one May morning, on the edge of Brisbane’s Mt Coo-tha, a hundred people gather in a car park. The air is sharp, the light clear, and there are probably birds muttering in the trees overhead. Most of the people here would notice this. They’re …

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Mane attraction

Under the spreading shade of a gum tree at the Mogo Zoo, just down from Batemans Bay, a furry cluster of lion cubs is at play: batting at a red ball hanging from the tree, swiping at each other's tails, worrying at their father's mane. They have handsome …

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Lazarus taxa

Extinction is one of the most popularly understood scientific ideas - that dangerous slide through the categories ‘threatened’, ‘vulnerable’, ‘endangered’ and so on. There are celebrity cases like dodos and thylacines, and lesser-known cases …

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