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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...
When silence is handcuffed
she knew when she awokethat some one had raped hergathering her clothes togetherin the back alley she dressed quicklyflushed...
The honesty window
A SMALL PRINTED card offered extra towels, if they should need them. They hadn’t been provided in the first...
Born of reform
THE REFORM CLUB, the imposing Palazzo-style structure on Pall Mall, one of London’s grandest thoroughfares, has entered the popular...
