HARBOURSIDE CHAOS

Mast 2004 Artist Daniel Tobin. Regeneration.

......a response to change....The mast itself refers to the ships of the past eras while the branches and leaves are suggestive of growth and change...the water represents the constant in the ever changing city

SCHOOL S OUT AND ABOUT

Teachers and art students. The romance of sketching? Newcastle High students in the main street at the daggy end of town.

Craft a sustainable future

AT THE FORESHORE

The federal election is on the weekend after next, the 24th of November!
When some of us say next weekend we mean the weekend that is immediately coming up. I would think that's what Australians used to say and mean.

Others use this weekend instead and all of us know that option as well. But some of us never refer to a distant time as next weekend or next Thursday etc. I will have to watch this.

EXPLORING

Dora On safari. A village school away in Indonesia. See Dora video here!

The privatisation of our school education is going right ahead and the state schools often feel the consequences. Fashions in education change and all with the government's blessing.

MINIMALISM

House design. Yes, the suburb of Mayfield is at the cutting edge. Deconstruction is in.

SUNDAYS

Unity in Defiance.
The flag of the Eureka Stockade uprising of 1854. The legendry uprising played out on the goldfields in Victoria.
The flag is believed to be designed by a Canadian miner.
It is adopted by anti-authoritarian groups and others. Bikies have been known to use it.

We have never seen a political coup or revolution or civil war around here although the Whitlam government was dismissed on a November 11 and we almost have a 'dictatorship'.
The worst warfare occured/s against the Aborigines.

















BMW, trying to look 'endro', beside the Wollombi Pub. Incidentally the pub was half under water in the June flood. Below: Yamaha and a Honda.

FROM CHILDREN OF THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNITY

A community happening. It is disappointing how one of the contenders in the coming election never fails to state that the economy is his priority.