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To mark the 20th anniversary of the National Museum of Australia, Slava and Leonard Grigoryan have selected 18 objects from the museum collection and responded to each with a new composition. The objects trace the history of Australia over the past 60,000 years.
From an ancient artefact from Arnhem Land, to convict love tokens, a protest sign, and even Sir Donald Bradman s cricket bat, take a journey through each of the objects with Alice Keath and hear the musical responses by the Grigoryan brothers.
March 8, 2021
I am a 70s kid, or like to at least believe I am one. The 70s were India and Indira Gandhi’s decade of socialism and the emergency, which meant that we had to learn to live with both state power and economic scarcity. We didn’t have 24 x7 breaking news thankfully: it was the age of black and white tv and Doordarshan, of Chaya Geet on Thursdays, Phool Khile Hai Gulshan Gulshan with the ever smiling Tabassum on Fridays and a much awaited old Hindi movie on Sundays. It was a period when we were content if our parents bought us a packet of Chiclets and the occasional bar of chocolate. Our urban middle class needs were markedly fewer and so were our ambitions. We played hand cricket, chupa chupi or hide and seek, seven tiles and just seemed to be happy to be taken on a ride in an old second hand Fiat car. We used red and black coloured HB pencils and sharpeners in school, read Enid Blyton books and Archie comics, booked trunk calls to connect with o
Laura McGoldrick s South Coast NSW road trip
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Sea Cliff Bridge, Clifton. Photo / Destination NSW.
When it comes to family-friendly holiday destinations, you really can t beat New South Wales.
Flying direct to Sydney, it s only a few hours across the ocean so (hopefully) the kids won t get too wild on the flight.
Escaping the city for the natural beauty of South Coast New South Wales is, in my eyes, the perfect adventure with little ones in tow. Hire a car, pack it full with everything but the kitchen sink, and set out to explore the beaches, lagoons and rainforests from Sydney down as far as the Victorian border. If this sounds like the holiday you ve been waiting a whole year for, then I ll happily take some of the planning off your plate with this epic five-day itinerary packed full of fun for the whole family and plenty of boredom-busting sight-seeing stops en route.
Earlier this month Brittany Hockley finally confirmed rumours she s dating tennis star Jordan Thompson, when they went Instagram official earlier this month.
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Picture the scene – the Aussies have assembled in Brisbane, scanned their QR codes, donned their masks and sanitised their hands.
They roll into the nets for a final tune-up prior to their one-Test series against Afghanistan in November (a prelude to the Ashes). Tim Paine defends a rearing-length ball from a local net bowler (didn’t want to name one of ‘our’ boys) that crashes into his fingers, causing him to miss the Test.