Revenge of the Sheep – or Sheep Schadenfreude
28 May 2020 | Living
Australia still has borders closed between some of the states and there’s much discussion over when they will open or if it’s even legal to keep a border closed. When there’s talk of a ‘Trans-Tasman Bubble’ between Australia and New Zealand – separated by the Tasman S...
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Rottnest Island, Western Australia
8 December 2018 | Places
After the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Dirk Hartog and Middle Island in the Recherche Archipelago my fourth and final Western Australia island visit was Rottnest. This is all for a forthcoming book from the National Library of Australia to be titled Australia’s Islands.
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Middle Island & the Recherche Group, Western Australia
5 December 2018 | Places
My third Western Australia island excursion for my forthcoming National Library of Australia book Australia’s Islands took me to the town of Esperance and out into the Recherche Archipelago. That very French name came from Bruni D’Entrecasteaux who encountered the isl...
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Dirk Hartog Island
15 November 2018 | Places
My research travels for my forthcoming book Australia’s Islands took me to the Houtman Abrolhos Islands off the west coast of Australia and then further north to Dirk Hartog Island.
This remote sandy island stretches 80km north-south, but often not more than 10km w...
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Sites of Impact
1 February 2012 | Media
▲ Wolfe Creek Crater, Western Australia
Every now and then I pick up a ‘got to go there’ book, you read it or look at the pictures and that’s what you immediately think. Judith Schalansky’s Atlas of Remote Islands was a fine example, she claimed she hadn’t been t...
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