Atomic guitars " Two canary yellow stratocasters, mounted on stands to face each other and wired into squat black amps. Next to the guitars hangs the shell of a radiation-proof suit. The stage is set for a band that never arrives." (Watch ...

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The real CSI " When I arrive at a scene, it's my thinking time. It's now sterile. The circus hasn't arrived.  What am I seeing? What am I hearing? I have a quirk: I tend to follow the left-hand wall around a room. It's ...

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Rika arrives in Port Moresby in 1968 with her husband Leonard, an anthropologist bound for a remote ...

The Monthly - Robyn Annear - 2012-05-03 11:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

his furry arse off. When Dozer first arrived from a rescue shelter in the Mallee, he flinched ...

The Monthly - Helen Garner - 2012-05-03 11:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

tonight, but more noticeable are the endless alcohol-related arrivals, a stream that becomes a torrent ...

The Monthly - Fiona Harari - 2012-05-03 11:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

before she arrives, so Plamka passes the time by drawing others. “It’s so rare to finish a portrait ...

The Monthly - Anna Krien - 2012-05-03 11:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

builder with connections to the Church Missionary Society, London, arrived on Bruny Island. Employed ...

The Monthly - Shane Maloney - 2012-05-03 11:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

and female lead, Felicity Price, shows one of the couples, Dave (Joel Edgerton) and Alice (Price), arriving ...

The Monthly - Mandy Sayer - 2012-05-03 11:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

At the last minute a couple arrived. They were – to me – youngish, in their thirties, and they could only have ... hardly move, let alone work. He told me, too, how straight after arriving in Darwin after all those ...

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of the República Democrática de Timor-Leste arrived from New York via Singapore a few hours later. Seven is a great ... and snapped in the sea breeze against the brilliant sky. At this point I began to cry. Arrivals and departures ... and sometimes violent aggregation of communities, and JRH was arriving to oversee the adjudication of a complex ...

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arrived at a family gathering. No one using the tradesmen’s entrance could have done it with more eloquent ...

The Monthly - Don Watson - 2012-04-27 10:48 - 8 comments - 0 attachments

An official arrives with a clipboard: the container is in transit from Gabon to London, but due to a computer ...

The Monthly - Helen Garner - 2012-05-10 16:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

the threat of offshore processing for asylum seekers who arrived by boat – and humanised the policy ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-03-29 11:33 - 40 comments - 0 attachments

'Red Deer Cave People' may be new species of human " 'They could be a new evolutionary line or a previously unknown modern human population that arrived early from Africa and failed to contribute genetically to living east ...

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Solar storm soon to hit Earth "Earth's magnetic field is about to be shaken like a snow globe by the largest solar storm in five years. After hurtling through space for a day and a half, a massive cloud of charged particles is due to arrive ...

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Chris Grosz Shane Maloney The railway worker’s son from Goulburn had done pretty well for himself since arriving in London in 1964. Within three years, the knockabout car salesman, mechanic ...

The Monthly - Shane Maloney - 2012-03-01 10:43 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Molly Sanders, a pretty 16 year old in a summer frock, arrives looking reticent. Molly’s mother relays ...

The Monthly - Alice Pung - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

When Rinty died in 1932, the talkies had arrived and mute heroes of all species had fallen from grace. ...

The Monthly - Michelle de Kretser - 2012-03-01 10:43 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

on the night of knives, 23 June 2010, arrived via SMS from a Rudd staffer only a few minutes before the story ... indication of trouble on the night of knives, 23 June 2010, arrived via SMS from a Rudd staffer only a few ... often in the hours that followed. I arrived at Parliament House, or rather the ghost of Parliament ...

The Monthly - Rhys Muldoon - 2012-03-01 10:51 - 12 comments - 0 attachments

shrank to the size of a teacup. Everything turned to shit. Senior herself arrived home only to be pelted ... nightmares, We Need to Talk about Kevin , arrived on our shores. It grapples with the terror of the ‘bad ...

The Monthly - Anne Manne - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 5 comments - 0 attachments

and then News Corp chief Peter Chernin, began undermining Lachlan soon after his arrival in the United States. ...

The Monthly - Paola Totaro - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

dismantled and prior to the arrival of the multi-screen blockbuster. The titles of Kael’s collected film ...

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Sometimes, very occasionally, they’d get lucky: another man would arrive, sniff about cautiously, perhaps ... to each new arrival. Some stay only briefly, others settle in for the afternoon. Cars come and go, all ... dark – the narrow road becomes jammed. Some nights – weekends, holidays – see the arrival of dozens ...

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Morrison was duly elected as the member for Cook, the point of arrival for the first boat people ... of cultures that came with the arrival of the modern world in 1770 at Kurnell in my electorate,” he noted, ...

The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2012-02-07 15:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

of degree. * When Romney arrived at the Family Table Restaurant, to the cricket-clicks of recorder ...

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