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My Space Lyndal Jones

A sense of urgency animates artist Lyndal Jones as she walks me through the historic house that is the site of her groundbreaking Avoca Project. Driven by her sense that "something needs to happen very fast", Jones bought the house three years ago and began restoring it as "a model of possibility" in the face of climate change. Shipped from Germany in prefab form in the 1850s, the house has long been an Avoca landmark and may well become a beacon of global action, as Jones and other artists ...

The Voice In The Wilderness

The tongue flickers at the upper lip, opaque greenish eyes brighten. The mouth quivers on the verge of a first word that does not come. Eighteen seconds pass before Peter Garrett speaks his mind. For these moments, he's transparent. Every twitch of his famous features animates the thought process

Games Nine Can't Lose

KEN Sutcliffe is as excited as a small boy with a new toboggan. It is not only his impending trip to Lillehammer as host of Nine's coverage of the Winter Olympics that animates him, but a particular memory of the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. Sutcliffe leans forward in his chair in a Ni