Friday essay: revisiting the Dark Man – a journey into Queensland's shadow country
- Written by Matthew Condon, Associate Professor, Griffith University
The view from the back verandah of the house where the city met the bush.Author providedThis is an edited extracted of an essay in Griffith Review 65: Crimes and Punishments, edited by Ashley Hay.
One recent Saturday morning, I once again drove my children to the street in Brisbane’s west where I grew up as a boy.
They had been on this journey...
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