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Behind every story
IT MAY NOT be the best painting in the Art Gallery of South Australia, and it may not be...
Remembering Roxby Downs
IN 1842, THE mainly British and German settlers who had arrived en masse at the beginning of South Australia’s...
God bless the footy
WHEN IT CAME to colourful and controversial views, the long-time mayor of Port Augusta, Joy Baluch, set elite standards:...
The value of culture
PICTURE ONE: THERE are eight people sitting around a table on the top floor of a high-rise building in...
Intercultural futures
‘SO WHAT? THERE’S no story here,’ the marketing consultant snapped down the phone. ‘I mean, bloody hell, the premier’s...
The gathering storm
ADELAIDE’S WEST TERRACE Cemetery has its share of famous residents, not all of them human. The sell-out release of...
Princeland
THIS IS A story about a new, breakaway state that was proposed in 1861, taking 18 million acres from...
Trace fossils
This was a landscape of fossils and trace fossils – the preserved impressions left by the passage of a living body through sediment – jostling for attention.
Learning the local language
IT WAS IN a Melbourne museum that I realised I didn’t know the traditional name for the area in...
Outlaw one
‘THE WIND IS my hairdresser,’ says Sue Coleman Haseldine, known locally as Aunty Sue, stepping out into her dusty...
The engine of Christmas
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. Dr Seuss,...
One short mile from land
HE FELT IT first when the horses shifted and cried. They had been muttering among themselves all day, but...
