Birth Pangs
First published in Good Weekend, November 8, 2003
One in four Australian babies is now born via the scalpel and, if the trend continues, natural birth may become obsolete. Kate Hamilton reports on why we’ve lost our faith in nature and what it’s costing women.
The Freakiest Trip
First published in Good Weekend, March 29, 2003
William S. Burroughs loathed it, Timothy Leary loved it, but most people scarcely know it exists. It’s DMT, a powerful hallucinogen that offers a mind-blowing and sometimes terrifying high … as well as a possible explanation for everything from schizophrenia to alien encounters.