AN ARTICLE I WROTE ABOUT THE RICHMOND RIVER WAS PUBLISHED IN LOCAL NEWSPAPER ‘THE ECHO,’ IN PRINT AND ON-LINE. THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE INCLUDED LINKS TO SEVERAL SOURCES I USED. THESE LINKS ARE NOT AVAILABLE IN ‘THE ECHO,’ BUT ARE IN THE VERSION COPIED BELOW. As the Echo reported in December, there is serious pesticide pollution …
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The Richmond River has its source on the southern slope of Mount Lindesay in the McPherson Range on the Queensland – New South Wales border. From here the river flows south-east through Kyogle, Casino, Coraki and Woodburn before turning north-east and reaching the sea at Ballina. Over its course of 237 kilometres it descends 256 …
In the 1700’s a Swedish naturalist by the name of Carolus Linnaeus developed a system for classifying and naming living organisms. It uses Latin names, which can’t change, and mean the same thing to people all around the world. This nomenclature is very handy and it’s still used today. For most people though, common names …
Work adjacent Nowra’s narrowest, darkest alley Little Literature provided the opportunity for writers, poets and anyone interested in playing with words to participate in Micro Galleries – held in the Nowra CBD from 8-24 May 2015. Micro Galleries reclaims disused and forgotten spaces and reactivates them as tiny galleries that are free and …
Writing about place The Nature Conservancy Australia holds a biennial nature writing competition with a focus on place/ landscape. I didn’t make the shortlist but my entry, based on travels in western NSW is here. SOLACE For people from the coast, and that’s most Australians, it takes time to know the wide spaces of the …
Little literature provides an opportunity for writers, poets and anyone interested in playing with words to participate in Micro Galleries – being held in the Nowra CBD from 8-24 May. Micro Galleries reclaims disused and forgotten spaces and reactivates them as tiny galleries that are free and accessible to the local community. Bringing together international …
I earlier posted a short story about a tree that we went to some considerable effort to save when building a house – a very lucky tree – which became the name of the story I submitted to an ABC Open project. ABC have now published stories from that project in a splendid book, “In …
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree (PART ONE – first published July 22, 2014) Up and down the coast and along our waterways there is a clash between public land management and the private desire for a water view. The private desire, which some foreshore property owners see …
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The environment has always provided inspiration for all forms of the arts. Always has, always will. Reading the Land is an opportunity for artists – at all levels – to examine a landscape, learn something of the values people who know the area well associate with that landscape – and then interpret it in their …
“In whose interest?” was an essay I wrote about federal government de-funding of the Environmental Defender’s Office. It was re-published on No Fibs, an on-line citizen journalism site established by former Fairfax journalist Margot Kingston. To see the visually enhanced (sub-edited) version, now titled “Digging up the drama,” click here: http://nofibs.com.au/2014/03/27/whose-interest/