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EVEN THOUGH I have been lost in the pop-culture megastores of Tokyo, and touched the bronze horns of the...

IN SEPTEMBER 2016, South Australia was buffeted by the most ferocious storm in half a century. Apocalyptic clouds gathered...

By John Spoehr

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know...

By Max Allen

A WRITER HAS come to town. A reputation for greatness precedes him. His prize-winning books are plainly spoken, yet...

By Nicholas Jose

ADELAIDE’S GOLDEN AGE began when the Beatles flew into town on 12 June 1964, electrifying the citizenry out of...

By Chris Wallace

A CELEBRITY CHEF declares dairy causes osteoporosis, and cholesterol medication is bad. Parents shy away from giving their children...

By Tory Shepherd

My art is something precious; something locked behind my tongue.Barbara Hanrahan, Sea Green (Fontana Books, 1980) TWO YEARS AGO, a...

By Charlotte Guest

EXACTLY FIFTY YEARS ago, in the spring of 1966, my family left the Pennington Migrant Centre in Adelaide to...

By Peter Stanley

SOUTH AUSTRALIA’S REPUTATION for progressive reform extends back to its origins in Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s scheme for imperial systematic...

IT MAY NOT be the best painting in the Art Gallery of South Australia, and it may not be...

IN 1842, THE mainly British and German settlers who had arrived en masse at the beginning of South Australia’s...

By Peter Sutton

WHEN IT CAME to colourful and controversial views, the long-time mayor of Port Augusta, Joy Baluch, set elite standards:...