One morning in late September 2009, my skipper Alex and I were anchored at Horseshoe Bay, around the back of Magnetic Island, as fine a place as any to loiter a while in a boat. We were slowly heading down the coast from Far North Queensland. By then we’d ...
SALLY HEATH: How did you arrive at the tone you finally used in the book?
I came across poetry first in anthologies – various, outmoded, inherited anthologies among my parents’ books. I still remember copying Charles Harpur’s ‘A Mid-Summer Noon in the Australian Forest’ into the journal I kept when I was seven. Oddly, when I read it then, what it called to mind was ...
The current enthusiasm for retro things is astonishing. It accounts for a massive part of the global internet market, just as it drives a global love affair with second-hand markets, charity shops and car-boot sales. While there were 115 342 objects described as ‘antiques’ at auction on eBay when I ...
At this time of the year, there are lots of things we can do to make shopping and eating simpler, healthier, more enjoyable and more sustainable.
Every so often, the planet Venus does something remarkable. Its orbit brings it to a point directly between the Sun and the Earth, where it appears to us as a black dot moving across the bright disc of the Sun. This transit of Venus is rare, occurring in pairs eight ...
I often wonder what my childhood would have been like if I did not have older brothers. Had I not, I doubt I would be a professional cricketer. I can’t point to the moment in time that the game I now call my job took a firm grip on ...
While some have been arguing that books will ultimately disappear, this will clearly not be the case for science. Whether published electronically or as hard copy there is, I think, a substantial market for readable, interesting and comprehensive treatments of serious, science-based issues. While TV nature spectaculars like those presented ...
Bob Hawke used to have a rule. He wouldn’t launch a book unless his name was in the index. That’s why the index to David Marr’s 1980 biography of Garfield Barwick has the following entry: Hawke, R.J., no mention of.
