‘Excuse me, are you guys halal?’ It’s the last resort after spending a few minutes scanning the walls for a halal certificate, and scouring Google with the trusty ‘[restaurant name] Sydney halal’. A simple question. One that induces my fight-or-flight response. I hope they know what halal means. I...
You’re told it’s simple: receive good grades in high school, get into a top university, land the dream job. Before you know it, you’re clinking glasses with your colleagues who got here the same way you did – hard work. We want to believe that the school-to-career pathway...
In the more than two years since Australia legalised MDMA and psilocybin for therapeutic use, in tightly controlled clinical settings, our revolutionary healthcare promise seems to be delivering only for the wealthy elite. On paper, authorised psychiatrists can prescribe these drugs for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and for treatment-resistant depression...
I neatly fold my wonton skin in half to form a triangle before bending the far corners towards each other like a fortune cookie and sealing the join with a dab of water. It’s a perfect diamond shape. My mum, on the other hand, plops the pork mince in...
White picket fence, a deck leading to a green, lawn-mowed yard, the dog running around, the kids playing cricket in the driveway, and in the centre of it all is the four-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom house. It’s the Aussie dream that has inspired generations to work and save enough to buy...
