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How my brave and brilliant sister rocked Australia to its core

The country lost a literary star when poet Dorothy Porter died in 2008, writes her sister in a new memoir.

  • Josie McSkimming

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Straining to fathom water filters

Overall, it’s a bit of a dampener.

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The price is fright!

And the resolution is blurry.

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Pearly prose from the western shoreline

And a volunteer with great appeal.

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Nigel’s night on the tiles

It’s all fun and games until someone loses an i.

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Hanging out. It’s a thing again

Even if it means going out on a limb.

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The search engine that saved Christmas

As long as the fatherly kickbacks keep coming.

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Periodical takes a base hit

It meant the world.

Danebank Anglican School for Girls in Hurstville contributed poems to the Herald's poetry prize which they wrote under the school's jacaranda tree. Near the tree, they threw small bits of purple paper into the air to emulate the flowers of the jacaranda floating to the ground.
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Celebrating the poetry of jacarandas

Danebank Anglican School for Girls in Hurstville contributed poems to the Herald's poetry prize which they wrote under the school's jacaranda tree. Near the tree, they threw small bits of purple paper into the air to emulate the flowers of the jacaranda floating to the ground.

Australian infantrymen clamber over the top of a trench in France on a bayonet charge towards the German lines [Book - War]

Finding faith amid news from war’s battlefields

The poets of the war were once the eyes and ears of the rest of the world.

  • Warwick McFadyen

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