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Water-baby wonder

In the early 1970s, Australian swimming educators began training babies to learn how to relax ...  
'Flying with Paper Wings' on World Schizophrenia Awareness Day

'Flying with Paper Wings: Reflections on Living with Madness' is a powerful story about living ...  
Rinehart portrait stirs debate over art censorship

A portrait of mining magnate Gina Rinehart has erupted in controversy after the subject ordered ...  
Montie Montana: The greatest trick roper of his time

Cowboy star Roy Rogers called Montie Montana the greatest trick roper of his time. Photojournalist ...  
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 ...  
POEM: What is labour about Labor?

This poem is an *IA Writing Competition (creative work category) entry.  
POEM: 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.  
POEM: 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 ...  
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