For April I’ll be looking at community and friendship as a way into belonging. To kick off the month I hosted a Sunday morning tea, inviting neighbours and ..
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”People would travel the world over just to witness these birds because they’re so famous and interesting and yet here we are, they’re commonplace, so ..
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”My Australia, the one I grew up with, and whose light and weather and range of colour shaped my earliest apprehensions of the world, was not dry or ..
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”I work on the assumption that I don’t want to impose anything on the landscape. I don’t care where the landscape is… Just so long as it’s the ..
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”And why shouldn’t a woman be tall and strong?’’ Louisa Lawson, Australian suffragette and newspaper publisher (Australian Dictionary of Biography) ..
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”Really, what sort of man could go and name all the trees?’’ Murray Bail Eucalyptus Summer has returned to Varuna, the writers’ house where ..
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”Do you understand the sadness of geography?’’ Michael Ondaatje The English Patient It doesn’t feel like summer in the Blue Mountains. A cool ..
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”We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behaviour and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.’’ Lawrence Durrell ..
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