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A lot of people refused to leave. Sydneysiders with waterfront properties could not fathom that the mansions that had cost them millions of dollars were going to be under water. There were stories of eastern suburbs socialites loading their antiques into boats. And drownings. Lots of drownings.
Five years ago, when Recherche Bay in Tasmania's far south was threatened with logging, the heritage importance of the area had to be freshly and strenuously established. The work of local historian Bruce Poulson proved crucial.
Crossing the boundaries John Kinsella boards Sarah Day’s The Ship.
In the past six months, climate change has gone from an idea which may have some future relevance to something which is already happening around us. Each region of the world seems to have had its own epiphany over climate change.
Radhika Gorur reviews Brigid Hains’ The Ice and the Inland: Mawson, Flynn and the Myth of the Frontier.
Reviews of the films Inside Man, V for Vendetta, Capote, and The March of the Penguins.
The National Museum of Australia in Canberra is both garage and op shop for the nation.
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