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Art graduate's Polynesian-inspired works on show
A graduate of the ANU School of Art, Tevita Havea, has been recognised as one of the country's most exciting glass artists with his works displayed in the Kirra Galleries 2012 exhibition season. The exhibition, titled OSMOSIS, is the 10th season for the Kirra Galleries at Federation Square.…
Living with the city
Do you have a special place that you associate with your identity? It might be your home town, the field where you won the grand final, the place you went to school or the lookout where you had your first kiss. Once you start to think about it, you’ll find you have a wonderfully varied jigsaw of…
Life sentences
The closure of bookshops has been a frequent news item lately. It is interesting to reflect on the place of booksellers in Australian society over time. The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) contains 40 articles that focus on people who sold books as one of their major occupations. The…
Park life
The bush is iconic to Australia. So unlike anything Europeans had previously known, it quickly became the root and trunk of the nation’s identity. It has inspired some of the country’s greatest poets, with their bush ballads of pioneers scratching out a living in a harsh, unforgiving land. We have…
Law and border
Wednesday August 31, 2011, is a day that will live long in the memory of anyone with an interest in legal, political or immigration matters. To a packed public gallery, Chief Justice Robert French and five other members of the High Court threw offshore processing and the Government’s ‘Malaysia…
Lalor: The Making of a Suburb
Lalor’s remarkable history as a housing co-operative has been brought vividly to life by Australian National University research fellow Moira Scollay in a new book entitled Lalor: The Peter Lalor Home Building Co-operative 1946-2012, published by UNSW Press. The book is based on an ANU doctoral…
Professor Emerita Rawson receives honourable mention in 2011 PROSE Awards
The late Professor Emerita Beryl Rawson has received an honourable mention for a Single Volume Reference in the 2011 PROSE Awards. A companion to families in the Greek and Roman worlds was recognised as part of the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence. The PROSE…