Trent Dalton

Trent DaltonThe Weekend Australian Magazine

Trent Dalton writes for The Weekend Australian Magazine. He’s a two-time Walkley Award winner; three-time Kennedy Award winner for excellence in NSW journalism and a four-time winner of the national News Awards Features Journalist of the Year. In 2011, he was named Queensland Journalist of the Year at the Clarion Awards for excellence in Queensland journalism. He has won worldwide acclaim for his bestselling novels Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies.

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Boe’s war: ‘My hands are hardly clean’

Controversial barrister admits he’s been a willing, sometimes overpaid player in the “pantomime” of Australian criminal law.

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Team spirit: Meet the Bayswater Boilers

They started as a mums’ netball side – but their mateship and solidarity has endured through all of life’s joys and heartaches.

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‘No Noosa tax here, it’s all so bloody affordable’

I’ve had the time of my life and I owe it all to the Town of 1770.

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EMBARGO FOR TWAM 27 JUNE 2020 FEE APPLIESJamie Robinson at his property in Yowrie, NSW, that was destroyed by bushfire on 31 December 2019. Jamie is pictured with his dog Omi. Jamie recently had a new slab donated to him though the Fire Relief Run, that is assisting people who have been affected by bushfires. Picture by Sean Davey.

Back to fire zone: afterburn in Cobargo

The Black Summer left their lives in ashes. Then the world got caught up in a different crisis. Now, something else is smouldering in Bega Valley Shire …

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All you need

For our ‘Tales From the Bunker’ series finale, hundreds of readers have written in to share their love stories. Here’s the pick

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‘Let me tell you about Australia’s best street’

Foster kid Jack is 9yo and he hasn’t had an easy life. He was living with his sister — then COVID-19 kicked in.

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E. Phillips FOXLanding of Captain Cook at Botany Bay, 1770 1902 oil on canvas192.2 x 265.4 cmNational Gallery of Victoria, MelbourneGilbee Bequest, 1902119-2

Great endeavour offers chance to unite

On this day 250 years ago, James Cook walked on the shores of Botany Bay, treading the foundational steps towards our nation of Australia.

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Escape from the bunker

A month into the lockdown, our coping strategies are bearing unexpected fruit.

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Captain James Cook (1728-1779) by Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland. 1775, Hanging in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

An endeavour that shook up the world

250 years ago, James Cook’s landfall at Botany Bay ushered in the birth of modern Australia.

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Inside the bubble

Society is fractured into millions of separate microcosms – but our yearning for connection will always find a way.

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