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Wiring Atherton Gardens
THE PLACE IS Atherton Gardens, a public-housing estate in the Melbourne inner-city suburb of Fitzroy: four 24-storey towers, 10...
The relevance of irrelevance
IN 1901 MARK Twain battled America's imperial designs in the pages of an American literary magazine. Remarkably, the North...
Love, social networks and other avatars
WHEN CONSIDERING TECHNOLOGY, few people immediately think of happiness and joy. Most find computing a challenge or irritating. It...
Three for all
FROM THE THREE bears and wise men to the enduringly mundane 'sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll', the neat...
Missing persons
Peacetime or warthere are deserters to round up,warrants to be issuedby the clerk of rules. In the riotless cityof fashionable...
Vanellinae
And I know now, about the birds – their Latin name, theirpopulation and international distribution. I know their migratory patterns...
Five across: Puzzle
MY FRIEND PHILIP enjoyed a weekly crossword.He bought or subscribed to a magazine he freely acknowledged was of at...
Dying, laughing
KYLIE THOMAS'S CHILDREN had been on the roof since early morning. She had heard them, vaguely, tapping at the...
Power with sisters inside
ON JANUARY 7, 1990, Australia's only murder inside a women's prison occurred at Brisbane Women's Correctional Centre at Boggo...
The dispossessed
IN MID-AFTERNOON JUST days after Christmas, finding a park in the small National Heritage town of Central Tilba, on...
Discovering the mother tongue
PHILOSOPHERS SAY INNER contradictions are a natural thing; they lie within the core of the human condition. I'd add...
Too blue
TAMWORTH'S TEN-DAY Jayco Country Music Festival is preceded by a ten-day Festival Countdown for those so excited about the...
