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After a visit to Ngukurr in Arnhem Land, a return home to Sydney and the horrifying reality of a culture that measures progress by the extent to which humans can destroy the land.
The outcry with which people greeted ex-planet Pluto’s change in status surprised many. Even the language used was astonishing. Pluto had been “demoted”, “banished” and “stripped of its status”. The Times of India reported people buying bumper stickers asking fellow drivers to “Honk if Pluto is still a planet”.
Australia is in a one-in-a-century drought. In India, water is always scarce and the conflict over its management rife—a precise illustration of what not to do. Maybe we can learn?
Paul Martin finds Victoria’s Water Act is full of holes.
Christine Williams meets Peter Garrett.
Sir Gerard Brennan’s address at the launch of Mark McKenna’s This Country: A Reconciled Republic?
Travelling in order to see how different people live is essential to the formation of a genuine tolerance of other cultures.
Luke Fraser reviews Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country to 1900, by Tony Roberts.
The environmental lessons learned by those who live along the Hudson River in New York can be applied to cleaning up our own rivers in Australia.
Shangri-La in the high country.
Four days in a French convent were not enough to satisfy the curiosity of this writer.
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