Listen to Amanda Tattersall read ‘Scaling change’

I’M OLD ENOUGH to remember when Australia’s Wonderland opened in 1985 in Sydney’s western suburbs. I was eight. Arriving was like leaping into an assortment of highly curated alternative worlds. Wonderland was a better place. The park unabashedly said so in its advertising: ‘Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the world was Wonderland?’ I embraced it all as I stood in the Medieval Faire and marvelled at the Pirate Ship. My sister and I must have gone on the terrifying Bush Beast – an overbearing rickety wooden rollercoaster – more than a dozen times.