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Born to run
Height (six feet six), quickness, balance, shooting touch – Ralph was the embodiment of the complete basketball player. Over the next few years Ralph, and another brother (Warren, who was six feet eleven), were not just among the best players in the New Zealand national league, they were widely considered NBA material. In those days, the US was a more distant shore than it is now and there were fewer navigation aids available, especially for a couple of kids from a tough background in Rotorua.
Learning from the bush
THE OPPOSITION OF the city to the bush was, of course, one of the great topics of late nineteenth...
The gift of the hinterland
CREATING AN ENTIRE city is something hard to plan, even now we know we are supposed to. Since Brasilia...
Women who have and have not
Van was told to do "hot tea" with the man, which meant she had warm tea in her mouth...
Desert field of dreams
IN THE DISTANCE, the rows of high-rise towers on Dubai's infamous Sheikh Zayed Road glitter; ornaments on the edge...
Ants on highways
GOOGLE AND MUNGO. I am sitting at my desk staring at Google Earth. My computer is short of memory...
Once were Westies
AS A GUEST on a western Sydney community radio program recently, I noted the ease with which the young...
Community despite geography
FOR AN INCREASING number of us among the million in our diaspora, the penny has dropped, big time. Australia...
Waking from the dream
Fire in the heavens, and fire along the hills,and fire made solid in the flinty stone,thick-mass'd or scatter'd pebble,...
Imagining an international Australia
AUSTRALIANS RIGHTLY SPEND much time discussing multiculturalism, yet rarely speak of Australian internationalism. Over the last few decades, however,...
Calling Australia home
AUSTRALIA IS A quintessential immigrant society. With nearly a quarter of the population born in other countries, few nations...
Fluid cities create
WHAT MAKES A city culturally dynamic? What makes a city the sort of place that people want to visit,...
