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Home Alone
After reading the two volumes of Helen Garner’s diaries, I was intrigued as to the identity of the dramatis personae – ‘V’ in particular. He’s so thinly disguised that I was driven to re-read the ‘novel’ he published in 1998. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, City, Location, Non-fiction, Publications, Uncategorized
Tagged Helen Garner, shaggy dog story, shot, tall story, volley, Wake in fright
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Our ship’s come in More a traveller than a tourist, once aboard the ‘One and All’ – a late twentieth-century version of a mid-nineteenth-century brigantine – at Port Adelaide for a tall ship day sail earlier this week I braced … Continue reading
The powers-that-be
Bynoe River Who you know is the odds-on favourite when the powers-that-be appoint a leader. Focused more on the glory that would accompany the first transcontinental crossing of the continent than on the nature of the undertaking, the powers-that-be appointed … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Location, Newspaper, Non-fiction, Publications, Region
Tagged blackbirding, blazing-a-trail, burke-and-wills, camels, Camp-#119, Federation, powers-that-be
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Dirt Music A Long Way From Home
Broome, WA Luther Fox, the central character in Tim Winton’s 2001 novel – Dirt Music – turns up in Broome, WA, in the company of a decrepit pair of grey nomads, Horrie and Bess, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fiction, Location, Publications, Region, Town
Tagged A Long Way from Home, Broome, Cyclone, Dirt Music, Kimberley, Roebuck Plain
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The Jetty
Bowen, Queensland The Jetty Unable to find the bakery Don Watson had mentioned when we called to Bowen in 2016, Renee and I had taken a stroll along the jetty. Signage at the entrance to the jetty informed tourists that … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Location, Town
Tagged Baz Luhrmann, jetty, Lest we forget, moral compass, Port Denison, room to stretch our legs, time out of mind
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Nat Buchanan
Aramac, Qld. Nat Buchanan and William Landsborough almost perished near where Aramac now stands while exploring the region in 1859. According to local road signage, Robert Ramsay Mackenzie had been there before Buchanan and Landsborough and named the place ‘Marathon’. … Continue reading
Route 66
Avon Downs, Northern Territory “On 21st January 1882, the ‘Herbert River Blocks’ on the Barkly Tableland were auctioned in Adelaide. … Thomas Guthrie, a Victorian grazier, was the successful bidder on four blocks and Avon Downs was born.” This … Continue reading
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Tagged memoir, Outback, pastoral station
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