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May 1, 2018‘Deep Time Dreaming’ by Billy Griffiths
This history of archaeology in Australia charts our changing relationship with the past
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Culture
May 1, 2018‘Deep Time Dreaming’ by Billy Griffiths
This history of archaeology in Australia charts our changing relationship with the past
Society
November 1, 2015Eddie’s son
Farewell to a man who tried to connect indigenous and non-indigenous Australia
Authors
December 1, 2013Vale Doris Lessing
Memories of a friend and mentor
Television
November 1, 2012Meth and Madness
‘Breaking Bad’
Leaving ’Tracks’ behind
The past caves away and dissolves behind us, leaving a few clues with which we try to reconstruct it. Hopeless task. History lives in the present. It is over 30 years since I walked across half of Australia with my dear camels and dog. If I concentrate, …
Bird-brained
Tim Birkhead’s 'Bird Sense: What It’s Like to Be a Bird'
Culture
October 6, 2011Garage alchemists
A dining experience at Hobart’s Garagistes
Culture
June 30, 2011Couch habit
‘In Treatment: Season Three’
Society
May 5, 2011Tide of improvement
Health retreats
Culture
February 3, 2011Into the beehive
The destruction of Burrup rock art
Culture
June 2, 2010Body of work
Antony Gormley’s 'Firmament IV'
Society
November 5, 2008A new desert
Trekking in the Simpson
Society
August 6, 2008The wanderer
“‘So what of this notion of exile?’ ‘No,’ he says, ‘exile is too pretty a word. Can you reframe that?’ ‘Homelessness?’ ‘No, that's wrong - because I have a home.’ ‘Metaphorically speaking, I meant.’ ‘No. It's very …
Society
June 4, 2008Living
In the age of noise
Society
May 7, 2008Organic matter
One of the great things about getting older is that all the anxieties you once had about death and decline (and some of us have had them daily since we first grasped the fact of mortality) are anxieties no longer. You are liberated from them because they …