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Nature's royalty — photographer's gold

Keeping a camera close paid off this day when, driving up the Hume Highway in Victoria, I was ...  
Japanese all heart despite World Solar Challenge blow out

A Japanese team respectfully bows before its solar-powered car in readiness to tackle the Darwin ...  
Farewell KISS that lasts forever

This week's music review includes KISS announcing its last show again, a Beards reunion and Angu ...  
Communities of faith cringe at Trump’s multiple mockeries

While many Christian leaders in the U.S. are appalled at the blasphemies of the MAGA movement ...  
Sprinter's track record also reads 'charitable bloke'

In 1993, the great U.S. athlete Carl Lewis came to Melbourne to visit a local teenage athlete ...  
POEM: Decisions, Decisions

'Tis time for the voting, as all through the land, politicians are pushing their political ...  
Colleen McCullough's 'Thorn Birds' still wears the crown

The late Australian author Colleen  McCullough was predominantly known for her novel 'The Thor ...  
POEM: The Incontinence of Donald Trump

It spews forth with the slightest encouragement.  
The reunion: A tale of unrequited love

Sometimes in life, one reaches a moment where you just have to find out what might have been.  
Australian actor Reg Evans remembered

The late actor Reg Evans had a varied career in the Australian arts from the 1960s onward.  
POEM: The Measure of a Man

What makes a man in times like these?  
POEM: Requiem for Lost Children

Shssh. Listen. Can you hear them? Children singing? Children laughing? Yes, brother. Yes, sister. ...  
AFL 'specky': When 'god' soared, crowds roared

Footy's back! In case you missed this Eye for Australia pic last year, Gary Ablett Snr's trademark ...  
QUIZ: IA Interrogates! #11

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Academy Award-winning 'Angel' Meryl Streep in Australia

This image of Meryl Streep was taken in Hobart when the actress was on a promotional tour for the ...  
QUIZ: IA Interrogates! #10

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POEM: A Song of Change

Come listen, good people and hear my refrain, the world as we knew it has gone up in flames.  
David Williamson — 'Don's Party' was just the beginning

This pensive pic of David Williamson was shot at his Diamond Creek home in Melbourne just before ...  
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