
‘Deep Time Dreaming’ by Billy Griffiths
Culture
This history of archaeology in Australia charts our changing relationship with the past
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‘Deep Time Dreaming’ by Billy Griffiths
Culture
This history of archaeology in Australia charts our changing relationship with the past
Vale Doris Lessing
Authors
Memories of a friend and mentor
Eddie’s son
Society
Farewell to a man who tried to connect indigenous and non-indigenous Australia
Meth and Madness
Television
‘Breaking Bad’
Leaving ’Tracks’ behind
Aboriginal people
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'
Garage alchemists
Culture
A dining experience at Hobart’s Garagistes
Couch habit
Culture
‘In Treatment: Season Three’
Tide of improvement
Society
Health retreats
Into the beehive
Culture
The destruction of Burrup rock art
Body of work
Culture
Antony Gormley’s 'Firmament IV'
A new desert
Society
Trekking in the Simpson
The wanderer
Society
“‘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 …