What began as “a little house of cards” is sure to be the most opulent experience you’ll have in a lifetime—no matter how well-to-do your friends may be. Initially set up as a hunting lodge for Louis XIII, Chateau de Versailles became France’s grandest and most famous chateau by his successor, Louis XIV—the Sun King. [...]
Music is an expression of culture. But culture is never static. It’s emergent. With our mixing and dividing of culture on a global and fragmented scale, what’s going on with music? Is traditional indigenous music being lost or reinvigorated?
Bundanoon says ‘No’ to Bottled Water “Australians spend half a billion dollars every year on bottled water that we could get for free from a tap, but we complain when petrol goes up a few cents a litre,” said Jon Dee, Founder of Planet Ark and Do Something at a public meeting held in Bundanoon [...]
After nearly 30 hours of flights, the city of Kathmandu was awash with blood and there were headless carcases of horse-sized beasts on every corner. In my shock, I sent a sarcastic email to family saying that I had not expected such fanfare but thought the entrails lining the streets to herald my arrival was an absolutely lovely gesture…More
What is most disturbing about the ‘Keep Mining Strong’ campaign – molotov cocktail of PR, politics and propaganda – is that intelligent people will swallow it – hook, line and sinker.
Julian Assange and Tony Abbot feature in Melbourne’s Hosier Lane street art, March 2011.
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