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The Godfather: Peter Corris on election day 2013

by NRB | 13 Sep 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

I was worried about voting. My eyesight is poor and I’d heard that the ballot paper for the Senate, as well as being a metre long, was in 12-point print. There was talk of magnifying glasses being available but I took one of mine along (I keep one in my work room and...

The Godfather: Peter Corris on living in Newtown

by NRB | 5 Oct 2012 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

In Sydney I’ve only ever lived in the inner-west, but it took me a while to find my way to Newtown. I had short stints in Redfern and Balmain in 1970 before going overseas, returning to Canberra, surviving two years in Victoria and then heading to Sydney. In late 1975...

RACHEL WILLIAMS and PETER WARRINGTON The Stripey Street Cat. Reviewed by Jean Bedford

by Jean Bedford | 23 Jul 2012 | Fiction | 2 comments

Cats, Newtown, street art … this charming book has everything. It was my seven-year-old grandson who first spied The Stripey Street Cat with his beady eye and insisted we buy it, but it’s also a novelty book for adult eyes. Cat-lovers, Newtown-lovers and those...
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