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 Tuesday, 07 February 2012
Australasia

Stories from this wide brown land of ours.



The Road to Wrotham Park PDF Print E-mail
Written by Mark Chipperfield on behalf of Tourism Australia   
Saturday, 27 December 2008

We arrived at Wrotham Park Lodge in a cloud of dust, feeling like two travel-weary 19th century explorers.

The Toyota LandCruiser, pristine white when we’d collected it in Cairns that morning, was now spray painted in red Outback grime. Dust filled our throats and our bones still ached from the corrugated road.

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Kimberley: On Wandjina Time PDF Print E-mail
Written by Roderick Eime   
Saturday, 27 December 2008


Roderick Eime traces the path of Australia’s forthcoming epic motion picture through some of the oldest landscapes on Earth.

He stares down on me as if from the heavens, mute and limbless, his power over the elements is total. The Wandjina are the spirit gods of the Kimberley who control the weather and their images abound throughout the caves and craggy overhangs of this rugged and foreboding corner of Australia.

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NZ: Canterbury Tales – The revival of Otahuna PDF Print E-mail
Written by Roderick Eime   
Saturday, 27 December 2008

For Queensland Homes - Gold Edition



There’s no second chance to make a first impression and at Otahuna Lodge, tucked discreetly away in the backblocks of outer Christchurch, one certainly knows when one has arrived.

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Tasmania: Mount Lyell Railway PDF Print E-mail
Written by David Ellis   
Wednesday, 24 December 2008

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THE Mt Lyell Mining Company had good reason for the motto it affixed to the front of the first locomotive it ran from Tasmania's western port of Strahan to it's copper mine thirty-five tortuous kilometres away in the wild coastal hinterland.

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Kimberley: On Gwion Time PDF Print E-mail
Written by Roderick Eime   
Tuesday, 07 October 2008

Expedition cruiser, Roderick Eime, comes face-to-face with an ancient hunter born before the ice age.

Blank faced and expressionless, he stood there staring at me. His slender arms adorned with intricate tassels hold a clutch of boomerangs as if inviting me to hunt with him. Literally frozen in time, this ancient gent has held this pose for perhaps 20,000 years.

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