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(MENAFN - The Conversation) The Members Hall of Parliament House is home to the 25 completed portraits of Australia s former prime ministers. The most recently revealed was of Julia Gillard in 2018, painted by Vincent Fantauzzo, a five-time People s Choice Award winner at the Archibald Prize.
Indeed, every official prime ministerial portrait has been painted by an Archibald finalist, including some by artists who were awarded the main prize.
This will change with Tony Abbott s reported decision to appoint the Australian s editorial cartoonist Johannes Leak to paint his official portrait. Leak does not have any track record of exhibiting works on a large scale, let alone portraits.
Yes, the once proud Frankie has fallen on hard times. Idolised as he swung, jumped and climbed his way to glory, Sanctuary City’s residents turned on him after he contributed to an unfortunate accident which left his great rival Jerry Whiskers wheelchair-bound. Retreating to the swamp on the outskirts of town, he’d planned to live out his days in quiet contemplation. That was until Daisy Quokka inadvertently tracked him down.
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Set in the same “cinematic universe” as last year’s surprisingly good Combat Wombat, Daisy Quokka: World’s Scariest Animal offers another round of rollicking entertainment. Frankie had always been a hero of the young Quokka Rock resident. His motto of never giving up on your dreams an inspiration to the “half-kangaroo, half-rat, crossed with a teddy bear”, even as her parents insist she should focus on the family tourism business of allowing visitors to take selfies with her.
Why Rosaleen Norton, the witch of Kings Cross , was a groundbreaking bohemian
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Rosaleen Norton, or the witch of Kings Cross , is finally receiving the attention she deserves.
Born in Dunedin in 1917, emigrating with her family to Sydney in 1925, and dying in 1979, Norton was a trailblazing woman and under-appreciated cultural touchstone of 20th century Australia.
A self-proclaimed witch, Norton experienced childhood visions. From around the age of 23, she practised trance magic and, later, sex magic, in various flats and squats in inner-city Sydney.
Trance magic involved Norton meditating (sometimes with the assistance of various substances, ingested and/or inhaled) and raising her consciousness. The aim was to transcend her physical body and conscious mind to experience higher forms of existence.