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ARTS AND CULTURE

Keeping vigil
- Julie Perrin
- 06 April 2020
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While I stay by my mother, I glean only the edges of the news; already the horror of the fires has been at full stretch. In the quiet room where my mother lies, I think of people trying to sleep in unfamiliar environments, refugees from the fires.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

An echo of silence
- Rory Harris
- 30 March 2020
2 Comments
Melbourne in summer & the weather is grand & blazing, proof that global warming is real. At my age I allow myself to be surprised.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The treachery of sand
- Les Wicks
- 16 March 2020
Anchored in the treachery of sand, wearing waves until the snip of a certain comber shreds them landward. They call this weed. There are people here too busy in their pleasure. They stare further out across the stolid hungers of tankers queued to feed national necessity, rapacity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

That pastoral edge
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- 02 March 2020
1 Comment
From just up here, on the lip of mountain mileage, that pooling river mouth below, half salt but also hill-fresh, could seem a lagoon. On its low point, surmounting asphalt and breaking waters, sits the verandaed pub, a focus once of holiday shorescape.
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ENVIRONMENT

Call to revive Australian tourism
- Catherine Marshall
- 20 February 2020
3 Comments
This communal outpouring during the bushfires has an opportunity to perpetuate itself indefinitely, even though the embers have been extinguished and those not directly affected by the fires have gotten on with their workaday lives. For even as the fires burned, Tourism Australia was mounting a campaign to encourage Australians to holiday locally instead of taking their patronage abroad, and to persuade international tourists to visit, too.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

After the fire
- Andrew Hamilton
- 10 February 2020
6 Comments
After the fire/they found a nail preserved in glass/and piles of dust and ash. After the fire/this place lost its memory/of trees cleared, a slab hut/of fences, a verandahed timber house/and a circle of orange trees.
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ENVIRONMENT

Writing in the apocalypse
- Brian Matthews
- 06 February 2020
3 Comments
I’d never heard of McKenzie Funk until I came across his marvellous review essay, 'Smoked Out'. I eagerly read on beyond the genial opening paragraphs and almost immediately, I found myself on familiar, if deadly, ground.
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AUSTRALIA

This is not about the fires
- Neve Mahoney
- 22 January 2020
11 Comments
My dog I've had for 14 years dies, and I decide to spend two days in bed. I look online and see that more than a billion Australian animals have died in the fires. Guilt spirals on top of guilt. How gauche, to feel this private grief, when there is such public grief already.
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AUSTRALIA

Bushfire divisions etched in sand
- Andrew Hamilton
- 15 January 2020
12 Comments
As the sea withdrew, the waves left curling black lines that crossed one another. The beach became a map in which territories were separated from one another. That image reflected the fires and the ways in which they were perceived. They were more than localised events. They affected relationships that spread far beyond the fire.
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ENVIRONMENT

The power of gift-giving without the waste
- Cristy Clark
- 21 November 2019
4 Comments
As we pare back more and more, I have started to realise that there is a risk in taking things too far. The consumer orgy of the past may have been unsightly, but gift giving itself also serves a valuable social function, and we may be at risk of throwing out the baby with the bath water.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

In praise of the rituals of others
- Jane Williams
- 04 November 2019
1 Comment
Thank God for Bollywood and daytime TV. For the all night partyers and marathon love makers. For the hash brownie bakers, the nut crackers and pot-stirrers ... the drum-beating banjo-twanging wannabe musicians ... the incense wafting up from the first floor through our bathroom vent — frankincense I'm tempted to think.
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AUSTRALIA

Borders blur at Australia's northern tip
- Catherine Marshall
- 17 October 2019
10 Comments
It's the final outpost, symbolically, demarcating Australia from its closest neighbour, PNG. The islands beyond it are a link to the cultures and geologies that lie to the north, giant stepping stones that guide Australia's Torres Straight Islanders home. For white Australians, they're the barrier marking the country's fiercely-held border.
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Keywords: Beach