by Margot Lang | May 9, 2019 | Arts, Environment, Film Review, What's On
Australian actor-director Damon Gameau has followed up his surprise hit, That Sugar Film, with another lively documentary – 2040 – this time focussing on the health of the planet. In That Sugar Film he used his own body to show how indulging in supposedly...
by Jacqueline Lang | Apr 16, 2019 | Environment, Fashion, Lifestyle, People, Places, Travel
Motionless on the ground outside Rotto’s general store, the 60-something lady looked like a cadaver. I nearly tripped on her, as she lay, sprawled in the dirt. Then I realised she was fine; merely contorted and grimacing in the grime to procure a selfie of...
by Peter Rigby | Apr 16, 2019 | Arts, Beauty, Books, Environment, Gardens, Lifestyle, Our History, People, Places, Wellbeing
The new book Wednesday’s Garden opens with a line by renowned Scottish-American naturalist and writer John Muir. He was a visionary who recognised over 150 years ago the critical importance of nature in our lives, and that to remove or destroy it can be deeply...
by Peter Rigby | Dec 21, 2018 | Books, Education, Environment, Kids, People
Victorian Alan Henderson has had a fascination with minibeasts since he was a small boy in his aunt’s Castlemaine garden. On one such visit he noticed a Preying Mantis tackling a Honeybee. “I was enthralled by the epic battle unfolding before me,” he...
by Jacqueline Lang | Dec 11, 2018 | Arts, Beauty, Books, Environment, People, Places, Visual
We’re driving up a hill, surrounded by native scrub, to the home of world-renowned landscape photographer Richard Woldendorp. It’s a treat, not only to be on this striking property in Perth’s hills, lit up by flaming Christmas trees, but to be met at the...
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