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Catherine Ford
Every evening before dinner, I escort my infinitely forbearing dog out of the house and into the world on his nightly constitutional. Lance...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Work and Play: Melbourne Zoo at 150
Christine Kenneally
The exoskeleton of the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect is such a deep, glazed black that it looks like it crawled out of a Flemish oil...
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Strange Beasts: Sonya's Hartnett's 'Midnight Zoo'
Geordie Williamson
Two boys enter a small town under cover of darkness, one of them carrying a baby in swaddling. It is Europe in wartime; even so, the...
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Something about Mary: PL Travers and Mary Poppins
Alan Saunders
“I’ll stay till the wind changes,” says Mary Poppins to the Banks children after she swept in on the east wind and, overwhelming Mrs Banks...
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WORLD
Mane Attraction
Ashley Hay
Under the spreading shade of a gum tree at the Mogo Zoo, just down from Batemans Bay, a furry cluster of lion cubs is at play: batting at a...
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The Human Zoo
Ashley Hay
Walking through the gates of the Adelaide Zoo one day in late January, I passed a man asking what kinds of Australian animals were inside....
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Ashley Hay
On her third day in Sydney, in late October, Kate George was hoping to see elephants. Given her success with earlier wishes, the chances...
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Evolution Baby
Mungo MacCallum
The year is 1830. William IV has ascended the British throne and Andrew Jackson is US president. France is in revolt after Charles X...
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