Celina Ribeiro

Feb 6, 2025 | theguardian.com | Celina Ribeiro

Illustration: Adam Parata/The GuardianOne evening in her parents’ home in New Zealand in 1993, Shirley Jülich told her father something she had kept secret from him for her whole life. Jülich revealed to her father that she had been a victim of sexual assault by a man known to the family. Decades before. Her brother revealed the same. Their father, a police officer, did not waste any time. “My father just said, ‘OK we’ll have a meeting tomorrow morning,’” she recalls.

Nov 17, 2024 | theguardian.com | Celina Ribeiro

At 7am on a Wednesday I drop my child off for a two-night school camp. The first big school camp. Children carry their pillows under their arms and drag behind them suitcases whose wheels and weight they can barely manage. They’re nervous. Excited. Some cry. By 7.45am they have loaded their bags. Through the coach’s tinted windows I can see that my daughter has settled in next to her friend so I wave goodbye and head to work. Before 10am my phone pings.

Oct 4, 2024 | msn.com | Sian Cain |Steph Harmon |Joseph Cummins |Dee Jefferson |Bec Kavanagh |Michael Sun | +2 more

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Oct 4, 2024 | theguardian.com | Sian Cain |Steph Harmon |Joseph Cummins |Dee Jefferson |Bec Kavanagh |James Bradley | +3 more

Juice by Tim WintonFiction, Penguin Random House, $49.99 (hardback)Juice is a Tim Winton novel, but not as you know it. Though it shares many concerns with his other works – the environment, family, the costs of an activist’s life – it also has an urgent energy I haven’t see before: a zing that jolts you out of your comfort zone, like a slap to the face.

Aug 2, 2024 | theguardian.com | Celina Ribeiro

At what must be the world’s most well-situated lawn bowls club, the ground is stripped to flat squares before the infinite, impossible blue of the Pacific Ocean. From the Clovelly clifftop, the sea itself is geometric: the horizon, a clean faithful line. Just down the hill from here, beyond the rock pools, says Dr Norman Swan, is one of the best swimming spots in Australia. It has been a cold winter, but today – if you only looked at it – could be mid-summer. The sky is cerulean.