Cradle Of Nature

Sarah Thomas shares nuggets of trivia in a remote wilderness.

Luke Still Waiting For Hoist To Lighten Load

PAM Pawsey remembers when she could cradle her grandson Luke in the crook of one arm.

Song Sung Often Leads To A Blue

IT STARTED life as a cradle tune, was transformed into a traditional Maori song and by 1948 it burst on to the international music charts, claiming the No. 1 slot. It was later covered by Gracie Fields, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby. The long and complicated history of Now Is The Hour has come to an impasse between the record label EMI and the descendants of Australian music diva Dorothy Stewart over who owns the song's copyright

Time Travelling

Readers may remember this time last year, when my son Simon and I were attempting to enjoy Cradle Mountain in Tasmania and our holiday was foiled by a snow blizzard.

Movies

Dirty Pretty Things Cradle Will Rock

Movies

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life Good Bye Lenin! Going Home

Quote Unquote

"It was Australia's shrine . . . the cradle of our traditions and the tomb of our princes." Major-General Mark Kelly, Land Commander of Australia, speaking about Gallipoli. He delivered the Anzac Day dawn service address in Sydney yesterday.

Riviera Quality Lean, Clean

FROM where I stood, at the base of a towering 70-foot hull being hugged by its manufacturing cradle, things appeared to be looking up for Gold Coast boatbuilder Riviera.

Editorial Spare Easter Prayer For Those In Iraq

THIS Easter, in the cradle of civilisation, the people of Iraq still face the day-to-day proposition of living in a war zone.

Bridge Gives Jets Glory ... And Sydney Fc Hope

NO CLASSIC but a classic fairytale. Newcastle, the cradle of football in Australia, has finally come of age. The Jets are the champions, and hasn't it been a long time coming.

In Short Fiction

REMEMBER ME By Derek Hansen HarperCollins, 400pp, $32.99 MY FAVOURITE WIFE By Tony Parsons HarperCollins, 384 pp, $32.99 HEAT 15 Edited by Ivor Indyk Giramondo, 240 pp, $24.95 PICK OF THE WEEK MY ENEMY'S CRADLE By Sara Young HarperCollins, 370 pp, $45 (hb)

From Nature's Cradle, A Future Is Mapped

TO TASMANIA'S high country, to Dove Lake, they came early yesterday morning: a small congregation gathered in what one member called "nature's cathedral" to celebrate what makes Australia beautiful and to begin a national conversation about what makes us Australian.

Vice Regal

Yesterday, at Dove Lake, Cradle Mountain, Tasmania, their Excellencies the Governor- General Major General Michael Jeffery AC CVO MC and Mrs Marlena Jeffery

So It Goes, As The Voice Of America's Counterculture Falls Silent

KURT VONNEGUT'S dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels such as Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation.

My School Report - Dick Goss

Schools attended: I am a cradle-to-grave private school boy - Melbourne Grammar. I am Jewish and I speculate that my familyfelt that we needed to assimilate and so chose private education and rhinoplasty as the vehicles. In those days, Melbourne Grammar was a mono-culture - but for two Singaporean Chinese and a few Jews, out of 800 Anglo Celts. Vietnam demos were in full cry and drugs were being used by the groovier students. The place was struggling with change and dislocation.

Cradle Of History, Victim Of Times

Unloved and neglected, a large chunk of Sydney's heritage vanished in a puff of modernity, writes Steve Meacham.

Art School Cuts Leave West Facing A Blank Canvas

CUTS to the University of Western Sydney's art school have prompted fears that the cradle of cultural activity in the west will be lost.

The Weaker Sex

From the cradle to the grave, males are the sicklier gender, writes Judy Skatssoon.

Turnstile Fever Rocks The Cradle - It Mustn't Spread

Newcastle is regarded, quite rightly, as the cradle of football in Australia. It is where the clubs have the longest histories, where some of our greatest players have emerged, and where crowds have traditionally been the biggest and best-educated in the country. Novocastrians deserve their reputation as the patriarchs of the game, and they guard it jealously.

Game Day Tribute To The Mums

NONE of the Dragons would be on this earth if it wasn't for their mothers and they wouldn't be first grade footballers either if they hadn't been nurtured from cradle to field.