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The man with the golden trumpet
At 200 River Terrace, Kangaroo Point, from where you get a glorious view of the city skyline across the river, there stands an immaculately tended Mormon temple. The modern classically styled flat-roofed buildings are clad in plush polished grey granite. A short palm tree-lined boulevard splits the two main buildings.…
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‘The Father of modern Queensland’
We should adopt a new calendar in Queensland: this year should be designated 27 AG. The year 1964, for instance, should be 16 BG. That’d be After Goss and Before Goss. Wayne Keith Goss, Premier of Queensland from December 1989 to February 1996, transformed the place, dragging it out of…
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Plus ca change …
This is a photograph of a photograph that was taken in a Queen Street studio sometime in the 1850s. It shows how little teenagers have changed. These four Aboriginals have ‘attitude’, in the most positive sense. The pic was taken at the Museum of Brisbane, which is really worth a…
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Muller’s mischievous grotesques
Art too often takes itself too seriously. It takes itself even more seriously when it feels unappreciated and when experimentation is frowned upon. It was ironic then that that most staid of institutions, the University of Queensland, should have been poking benign fun at it in the august portals of…
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