The mushroom clouds that reared over the South Australian desert during British nuclear testing in the 1950s will gather again at the Melbourne Art Fair (20-23 February). A new series of works by the ...

Occasionally I give guest lectures to undergraduates about Maralinga. In most cases, the students have never heard of the place. A small number may have heard the word, but don’t know what it means.

It is September 27, 1956. At a dusty site called One Tree, in the northern reaches of the 3,200-square-kilometre Maralinga atomic weapons test range in outback South Australia, the winds have finally ...