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Culture Warriors
The National Gallery of Australia are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year with an exhibition of aboriginal art, both traditional and modern, produced in the last three years. The collection is...
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Arts in the South-East
It’s a busy time for indigenous arts and culture, as long as you live in the South-East of the country, that is. In Sydney, as part of the Sydney Festival, the Belvoir St Theatre in Surrey Hills is...
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I really like these
…and I might just use them when teaching syntax in a few weeks’ time. Via the Speculative Grammarian.
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Last night’s Foreign Correspndent featured a short report about the Amaraic language of the village of Malula, Syria. The story goes that Aramaic was the language of Jesus and was spoken in a fairly...
View ArticleTales from across the ditch
I’m sneakily writing this during afternoon tea of the first day of Australex on the lectern’s computer, which has an unrestricted internet connection, because I just heard a great New Zealandism that I...
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My new toy
On Sunday I went to the triannual1 Sydney Camera Market, which was basically a room full of old cameras, lenses, filters, as well as some new stuff. As an amateur photographer trying my hand at film...
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