Concert For Kev

The sun is setting on the performing career of Kev Carmody, one of our most original singer-songwriters. John van Tiggelen joins him on the road less travelled.

Dust-up In

After three days on the road, Daniel Lewis and photographer Steve Christo join the non-stop party at Australia's most famous outback race meeting.

A Fight Against The Stereotype

JUSTINE SAUNDERS 1953-2007

Aboriginal Actress Who Broke Stereotypes

Justine Florence Saunders, Actress, 20-2-1953 - 15-4-2007

Queen Of The Road

The isolation, the relentless round of chores, the spartan camp life: being a drover is not for everyone. But for Janelle Little it's a wonderful job, even if she gets scant thanks for it. Greg Bearup and photographer Andrew Meares go bush with her.

Wildflowers Bloomed To Brighten Artist's Life

Carmel Nicholson Aboriginal artist 1930-2005 UNLIKE many members of the stolen generation, the artist Carmel Marie Nicholson maintained contact with her mother, Rosie. Once every couple of years, Rosie would visit Nicholson at the convent where she lived at Mitchelton, and Nicholson wrote to her mother every month. This contact later influenced the artist's paintings.

The Ladder

Yes, the dough is about to rise

Trivia

1 St Kilda's most recent loss was to which team? 2 Upon winning the 2001 French Open title, Gustavo Kuerten celebrated on court in what unique way? 3 Which soccer star complained last week: ``If I don't score goals, it's because I'm fat. If I score, it's because I've lost weight"? 4 Wh

Spike

Outback heat makes women soak T-shirts Sometimes it takes a while for a good story to filter south of the border from outback Queensland, like the one about the inaugural Hog 'n 'Dog pig huntin' day out at dusty Richmond late last year. While the widely predicted showdown between RSPCA officia

Lofty And His Mates On The Road To Birdsville

IT may have been a case of `wagons, ho!' when 10 four-wheel-drives rolled out of Newcastle last Tuesday morning, but trail boss Trevor Smith reckons it might have been a case of `wagons ? uh-oh!'

Across The Sunlit Plains Extended

In the year of the outback, Anna King Murdoch joins a cattle drive through western Queensland and tastes life under the everlasting stars.

Scenic Roots

Lenny Ann Low travels through landscapes ravaged by heat, bursting with life and scorched by fire. TIM STORRIER - CONSTRUCTIONS, PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS FROM THE 1970s AND '80s Australian Galleries RACHEL HONNERY/ MITZI VARDILL/JO TRACY PCL Exhibitionists ETERNAL ECHOES Salmon Galleries NEBULOUS/WEATHER Boutwell Draper Gallery

Spotlight

TODAY'S BEST EXHIBITIONS Emerging artists reflect on younger days in Childhood. The exhibition includes Jessie Cacchillo's drawings of family outings and Lionel Bawden's coloured-pencil sculpture which reflects on the importance of scribbles. Firstdraft Gallery, 116-118 Chalmers Street, Surry

Back Of Beyond

Just before Queensland's Channel Country is the Matilda Country - Banjo Patterson wrote the unofficial anthem at Dagworth Station, near Winton. David Bentley goes a'waltzing.

Flak From Filming Up A Storm

There is fallout when car makers overdo their TV commercials, but some critics may take the ads too literally.

Queensland Food Air Drop

The Queensland Government will charter an aircraft to get food and other essential supplies to the town of Quilpie, which has been cut off by floodwaters for almost a week. The road and rail link to the south-western cattle town has been cut by the flooded Warrego River, preventing attempts to

The Year Of Living Frantically

NICOLAS ROTHWELL is in Quilpie, south-west Queensland. He is in town to cover a meeting of the regional women's alliance. It is a far cry from 10 years ago, when the somewhat larger scale story he was pursuing was the collapse of communism, which necessitated a tour of Soviet satellite states as the

Flying To The Rescue Is All In A Day's Work

AMBULANCE officers who fly with Air Ambulance Victoria are called out on some unusual jobs, but nothing quite compares to one Phil Hogan had a few days back. He flew up to Quilpie, in west Queensland, to pick up an injured 29-year-old ``buckjumper" who had been thrown by a mechanical bull. <

Beach Lifts Profit To $6.29m

Beach Petroleum NL celebrated its first full year as an oil and gas producer with a net profit of $6.29 million, against a net loss of $1.9 million for the year ended June 30, 1986. The company has been producing oil from the Bodalla South field in ATP 269P(1)near Quilpie in south west Queenslan