Peter Carey

Aggressive plants are forcing wild flowers out of hedgerows

Aggressive plants such as bindweed and ivy are forcing traditional wild flowers out of hedgerows, according to a new survey. A field boundary hedge with wild flowers. Photo: CHRISTOPHER JONES Stinging nettles, hawthorn and...

Countryside Survey 2007 results published

The UK results of Countryside Survey 2007, the biggest ever survey of Britain's countryside and its natural resources, have been published. The results identify how the main features of the countryside are changing.

Garrett refuses to reinstate funding for National Academy of Music

The Federal Arts Minister Peter Garrett has refused to reinstate funding for the classical music school the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM). The Academy's funding was cut late last month. Mr Garrett today announced...

Artists plead to keep academy

MORE than 750 musicians, writers, actors and composers -- including Geoffrey Rush, Barry Humphries, Peter Carey, J.M.Coetzee, John Pilger, Anthony Warlow, Paul Kelly and Simon Rattle -- have condemned the federal Government's...

The McBurney equation

The artistic director of Complicite theatre company has been busy exploring the art of numbers, writes Jane Cornwell | November 15, 2008 Article from: The Australian SIMON McBurney is used to finding beauty in art, music and...

Julie among club race winners

Published Date: 07 November 2008 Octavian Droobers held their annual club championships at Shoal Hill near Cannock on Sunday, alongside a West Midlands League competition. Julie Emmerson (W12) was first in the girls’ race on...

Leader's Question Time

Senior councillors will be put in the hot seat by local people, who will be able to grill them on a range of local issues. Leader's Question Time is being organised by the council’s overview and scrutiny committee to give...

Academy's sporting chance

Corrie Perkin, National arts writer | November 01, 2008 ARTS Minister Peter Garrett flew into Melbourne yesterday, determined to fix a problem. Kemp, his Liberal successor George Brandis, and Garrett wanted ANAM to provide more...

Alastair Campbell: 'I can't change what I am'

Alastair Campbell has written a novel about humility. I'll say that again. Alastair Campbell, New Labour attack dog, bully boy and Machiavellian master of that new lynchpin of the new political culture, "spin", has channelled...

Hopes for a happy ending: Literary voices on the American Election

Presidents and novelists are storytellers both, but it is a rare day in America when their narratives collide. It nearly happened in 1963, the year Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy hired (at the recommendation of William...

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