This quarterly publication from Griffith University and ABC Books looks at a different theme in each issue, in essays that aim to build a bridge between journalism, academic and literary writing. Each issue also includes a photographic essay, short story and poetry. It's goal is to provide a snapshot of current debate and thinking. In this issue, the review examines the way the tentacles of the big cities are stretching up and down the coast in vast new suburban developments. While droughts, bush fires and other natural and environmental disasters hint at our fragile relationship with the land. This issue covers native title, property speculation, natural disasters, man-made environmental catastrophes and the place of the natural environment in art, literature and politics.