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News
The Museums and Galleries National Awards (MAGNA) and the Museums Australia Multimedia and Publication Design Awards (MAPDA) 2013 were announced at a ceremony last night at the Mus... More 
Dome 100
Gideon Haigh is one of the world's most highly regarded and best known writers about the game of cricket. When I interviewed Gideon for his dome story, he recounted some formative... More
Family matters
The State Library of Victoria is trialling the UK National Archives Discovery Service until May 22, 2013. The trial provides free access to the digitised documents available on t... More
Arts
Clearly determined to win the State Library’s Blogger-of-the-Year Award, Jane Miller has submitted another topical post, this time exploring Indian cinema and the vibrant son... More
Such was life
Good footballers are often described as ‘dangerous players’, but none more so than Alex Bruce who had a prosthetic hook on one arm, which made him very dangerous indeed! Less threa... More
Read alert
2013 Text Prize The shortlist for the 2013 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing was announced this morning with four talented authors chosen from 350 submissions... More
Inside a dog residence
I've been away the last three days, hence the lack of posts. The time was not entirely devoted to fishing, though I got out a fe... More
Inside a dog news
It's a long way down, in the latest sneak-peek at the film adaptation of Veronica Roth's book Divergent:
Tris (Beatrice) must make the jump if she wants to be accepted into t... More
