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Ross BiltonThe Weekend Australian Magazine

A MACHINE for vacuum-packing food at home.

FOR the past 79 years, a platoon of stone soldiers have cast their sombre gaze over anyone walking through the southern end of Hyde Park in Sydney.

KAI Pantano was having a rotten day. It was “a girl thing”, he says – someone he’d been dating and was really keen on had broken up with him.

A CAMERA that takes “living pictures”.

ONE of the worst places in the world to be an ice-hockey nut is the Northern Territory. Take it from Australia’s best player, who lives in Katherine.

IT’S amazing how much detail modern digital cameras can capture in the night sky, says amateur astronomer Mike Salway.

IN THE bush outside the Kimberley town of Halls Creek, a group of women with infants gather in the late afternoon.

IT was Saturday in Wudinna, and photographer Randy Larcombe, on assignment for Australian Geographic, knew the footy club was the only place to be.

A HEATED throw – a sort of electric blanket for use on the sofa – made of “faux fur”.

ROUNDING up a mob of cattle in a paddock sounds easy enough. But when that paddock is 30km wide and 30km long, even finding them can be a challenge.