Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 One Thousand Quails Over West Melbourne Swamp
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'The suburbs where Carrum Carrum Swamp used to be remind me of my grandparents' old neighbourhood in south brisbane, blonde brick and bland. The kind of suburb where families have lived in the same house since the 1960s and an overgrown lawn is offensive. But as I drive further south, there are horses in a paddock by the roadside and tall eucalyptus trees. I'm only forty minutes out of Melbourne and it feels like the countryside. Before 1879 the suburban houses and horse paddocks would have looked like the edithvale-seaford wetlands: dark muddy water, paperbark trees, herons.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Voiceworks Butter no. 119 Winter 2020 19811611 2020 periodical issue 'This is a cliché, but time feels very fast and slow this year. I thought about this a lot during Ramadan. Watching the sun across the day and the moon across the month. Feeling time in when I woke up, when I started feeling hunger pangs, when I had to lower my blinds so the sun wouldn’t give me a headache. The lunar calendar comes out of sync with the solar one a little more each year. I feel a renewed sense of grief for my friend who died shortly before Eid a few years ago. The actual anniversary of her death isn’t for another three weeks.' (Adayla Nash Hussein , Editorial introduction) 2020 pg. 39-43
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