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TWA Hotel at JFK in New York City
I am not a happy flyer; it’s merely a means to an end. Neither do I like airports where I soak up the surplus anxiety with the porosity of a deep-sea sponge. Only one place has changed my mind and it...
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Trekking the Great Ocean Walk: ‘Stand with no land mass between your sweaty...
Darting and bobbing on spindly pink legs, the hooded plover places pebbles, seaweed and other beach debris around its nest at the high water mark on Johanna beach. The decorations will do little to...
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‘An inscrutable and open-ended riddle’: the life and art of Jeffrey Smart
Cahill Expressway (1962). Photograph: Predrag Cancar One reason Jeffrey Smart paintings have gone up in price is because that’s what happens when there’s a big show, such as the one at the National...
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A gentle hidden gem: a visitor’s guide to the NSW far south coast
Photograph: David Rogers/Sapphire Coast About six hours drive from Sydney and seven from Melbourne, on Thaua Country in Yuin nation, are the small towns of Pambula and Merimbula. This is not your...
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The ‘Yolŋu surf rock’ of Yothu Yindi’s next generation
Photo: King Stingray The music of Yothu Yindi, says King Stingray guitarist Roy Kellaway, is in his blood. He and the brand new band’s singer, Yirrnga Yunupiŋu, grew up together as wawas (brothers) in...
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Floors of Heaven underwater concert (Woolloomooloo Bay)
Photograph: Jacquie Manning The line between novel and novelty could have been easily crossed last night at Andrew (Boy) Charlton Pool at Woolloomooloo Bay. Floors Of Heaven: Submersive Study is a 45...
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Zen in the Arabian desert
My hand goes for my phone – and stops. ‘‘We promote the digital detox here,’’ I’d been fairly firmly told on entering the foyer of Zulal Wellness Resort – though it’s less foyer and more ‘Bond villain...
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The Tasman, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Hobart
Why book? Take your pick of rooms in three buildings of starkly different eras in a first-of-its-kind Hobart hotel that matches the excellence of Tasmania’s food, wine, and nature. Set the scene...
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Dua Lipa – Qudos Bank Arena
GLENN POKORNY A recount of British pop star Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia concert could really just be synonyms for ‘feelgood’ strung together with the names of songs so uniformly earwormy that not one,...
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A yarn with YIRRAMBOI Blak Critic Bryan Andy
A yarn with YIRRAMBOI Blak Critic Bryan Andy (originally published on the Yirramboi Facebook page) Who your mob? Where you from? I’m a Yorta Yorta man, born on Boonwurrung country and raised largely...
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