Sydney’s QVB shopping centre
Shopping centres generally hold little appeal for me. But there are exceptions, and one of them is Sydney’s gorgeous Queen Victoria Building (affectionately called the QVB).…
Cirque du Soleil brings TOTEM to Brisbane
It begins with the “Crystal Man”, descending onto the stage in a costume made of 4500 small mirrors. It ends with a cast of 45 mesmerising…
A village in monochrome
Easter in the northern New South Wales village of Ulmarra brought patchy weather. Everything from blue skies and sunshine to a massive 3am thunderstorm and drizzly…
Lunch Timed at NEXT Hotel Brisbane
The days of the long, languid – and often liquid – lunch are long past. Gone are the days when businessmen and women would linger over…
Taking a walk in Sturt National Park
The Dingo Fence – also sometimes called the Dog Fence – runs for more than 5600 kilometres through Australia’s remote desert country and is the world’s…
Remembering Springtime
As Australia heads into autumn, my friends in the northern hemisphere are celebrating the arrival of spring. This week’s challenge from fellow blogger Ailsa at Where’s…
A green and graceful idyll
In a flurry of black and white, a small flock of magpie geese rise gracefully into the sky, surprised from the water as our boat skims…
The fight against fracking
Her t-shirt read: Don’t frack with me. It might seem an unlikely message for an 83-year-old woman to be carrying, but Liffy Jack left me in no…
Saving James Price Point
This is James Price Point, a remote and rugged finger of land on the Western Australia coast, about 50km north of the pearling town of Broome,…
Farmgates of the Lockyer Valley
Watermelon juice is dripping down my chin, and my hands are covered in it. Â Beside a creek on a country road, I’m tucking into a giant…
A Glass Half Full 