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Charming vintage vehicles live on at the Sydney Bus Museum in Leichhardt The polished double decker buses of Sydney’s bygone era don’t only exist in Harry Potter stories. Maria Zarro talks to volunteers Duncan MacAuslan […]
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NEWTOWN VOICES Sunday 4 June Leichhardt writer and former Newtown resident Sue Cartledge’s first novel, Newtown Voices, will be launched at the Better Read Than Dead bookshop by Montreal Poetry Prize winning poet, Mark […]
INSIDE THE INNER WEST’S ZINE CULTURE
With the buzz surrounding this month’s Zine Fairs, it’s an ideal time to unearth the Inner West’s dynamic self-publishing scene Maria Zarro talks to zine legends and long-time Inner Westies Vanessa Berry and Chris Mikul […]
Cooks River People
The wellbeing and preservation of the land has always been fundamental to Aboriginal cultures. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the traditional custodians of Australia and they created a complex system of land management, […]
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Dulwich Hill Village Fair The Inner West festival season is in full swing and next up it is the much-anticipated Dulwich Hill Village Fair, which will soon be taking over the Dulwich Hill portion of […]
Inner Best: PHD vietnamese
From war-torn Vietnam to a Hong Kong refugee camp, the Le family finally found their home in the Inner West, and in 30 years have never once looked back. Marrickville is famous for its thriving Vietnamese […]
By any other name…
Can we reclaim the C word? It’s considered the most offensive word in the English language… but, as Cat O’Dowd discovers, it’s so much more! C**t was a cheeky old Anglo Saxon word used to […]
Triage in Vung Tàu
When two young nurses from Concord Hospital left Sydney to treat civilians injured in the Vietnam War their world view was radically changed, writes Phoebe Moloney. In November 1967, Jan Bell stepped into the busiest […]
Rant: Lest we forget the Frontier Wars
The colonial genocide and dispossession of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders is a historical fact that mainstream Australia would still rather ignore. For Indigenous Australians, Anzac Day is not an inclusive occasion. It is an […]
War for Leisure
Some people used to believe that war makes a man, thankfully you can now make your own wars with miniature men. Emma McConnell ventures into peaceful military-inspired hobbies. Miniature Wargaming This social hobby is perfect […]