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Keywords: Cara Munro

  • INTERNATIONAL

    Delhi's Commonwealth Games refugees

    • Cara Munro
    • 04 October 2010
    6 Comments

    The smell of hot bitumen asserted itself in the chilled winter air. A family of saried women, nimble men and children sifted gravel and carried piles of stones on their heads. The driver, seeing the direction of my gaze, nodded towards the ghostly work party and explained: 'Delhi Games.'

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    In search of she who waits

    • Various
    • 07 September 2010
    3 Comments

    somewhere, .. on a dusty stump .. or parched rock ... far from here on the road inside myself .. patiently fanning flies .. and hoping that I'll have the heart .. to travel on and not look back.

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  • EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD

    Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Award 2010: Australia - a racist country?

    • Staff
    • 22 February 2010

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Keeping vigil for slain Indian student

    • Cara Munro
    • 06 January 2010
    13 Comments

    They came to stop the violence. Four, maybe five of them, in hooded jackets and pale, worn jeans. Hovering in the car park. Shadow-like. Haunted. We were gathered outside the place to which he had come, bleeding, begging for help. Wrongly, we assumed they had come to join us.

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  • MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD

    Aurin: a parable of inter-faith friendship

    • Cara Munro
    • 24 July 2009
    6 Comments

    Multi-faith dialogue is just a conversation, over time, between dear friends.

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  • EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD

    Winners of Eureka Street's writers awards 2009

    • Staff
    • 16 July 2009

    Reader's Feast Bookstore is delighted to once again join with Eureka Street to offer an award in the area of social justice writing. Funded by Reader's Feast Bookstore and organised by Eureka Street, the theme for the essay was 'Climate change and the global financial crisis: can we afford to save the planet?'

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    No welcome stranger in racist Australia

    • Cara Munro
    • 03 June 2009
    18 Comments

    In Melbourne, 2000 Indian students gather to protest a lack of Government response to a spate of violent attacks. I am with them because I am ashamed that a white Christian woman is safer in the military capital of Rawalpindi than these students are on a train in Melbourne.

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  • MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD

    Noor's ambiguous curry

    • Cara Munro
    • 08 October 2008
    5 Comments

    Noor, an Albanian refugee, ran a slick kitchen; a vital, sunny-windowed place. Since his accident, a piece of his skull is missing and a thick line of cable stitching closes the place where his brain was exposed.

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  • EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD

    Eureka Street/Reader's Feast awards ceremony 2008

    • Staff
    • 28 July 2008

    Photos from the presentation of the inaugural Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Award the Margaret Dooley Award for Young Writers 2008 were presented by Mary Dalmau of Reader's Feast bookstore and Tim Kroenert from Eureka Street at the opening of the Reader's Feast Crime and Justice Festival on 18 July.

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  • EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD

    Eureka Street Writers Awards winners announced

    • Staff
    • 19 July 2008

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