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POEM: Clash by night

This poem is an *IA Writing Competition (creative work category) entry.  
The 'Man from Snowy River' makes a comeback 

Six years after the release of one of Australia's most iconic movies, the country town of Mansf ...  
Hero of Barrier Reef conservation honoured in new biography

A new biography of conservationist John Busst outlines how much more needs to be done today to ...  
What is labour about Labor

This poem is an *IA Writing Competition (creative work category) entry.  
Not in my name

This poem is an *IA Writing Competition (creative work category) entry.  
When your dunny is too funny for words

World-renowned master painter James Egan (RIP) poses with one of his humorous paintings, as ...  
Yarra River: Magical 'mist-ery' tour

Renowned photojournalist Bill McAuley captured this heron touching down on a branch in the Yarra ...  
The creature of caprice

This short story is an *IA Writing Competition (creative work category) entry.  
BOOK REVIEW: Flying with Paper Wings

'Flying with Paper Wings: Reflections on Living with Madness' is a moving story of living with ...  
When Ol' Blue Eyes saw red

In Australia, during a tour of the Far East in 1974, Frank Sinatra appallingly referred to Aussie ...  
She change

This short story is an *IA Writing Competition (creative work category) entry.  
It wasn't here

This poem is an *IA Writing Competition (creative work category) entry.  
If you think you know where this is... think again

It appears this Harvard IIB vintage aeroplane is flying over Vietnam's picturesque rice field ...  
Pillow scams, AI and the Russians

In search of relief from neck pain, Norm Sanders was caught in a pillow scam orchestrated in ...  
Surrounded by giants

Professional harpist Emily Rosner plucks at the heart of Victoria's California Redwood Fores ...  
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Comedian banned after Zionist heckling becomes no laughing matter

The report of one Israeli heckler has been broadcast around the world as “anti-Semitism” after ...  
Out of time

This short story is an *IA Writing Competition (creative work category) entry.  
Marcia Hines — An Australian icon

With a career spanning upwards of five decades, beloved musical icon Marcia Hines was inducted ...  
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