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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 14 October 2016 of Brisbane Times est. 2016 Brisbane Times
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* Contents derived from the , 2016 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Boys in the Trees Director Nicholas Verso Was 'willing to Die for This Film', Stephanie Bunbury , single work column
'When he was at school in Melbourne, film director Nicholas Verso was almost expelled for being a goth. "I blackened everything," he says. "Lashes, eyebrows: it was a big commitment." ...'
Note: Includes portraits of Australian director Nicholas Verso
Position Doubtful by Kim Mahood : Lives of the Desert Mapped on an Artist's Skin, Barry Hill , single work review
— Review of Craft for a Dry Lake Kim Mahood , 2000 single work autobiography ;
'Kim Mahood, an artist who writes exceptionally well, is fond of the expression "paying attention". As is fitting. In her Craft for a Dry Lake (2000), a prize-winning memoir about growing up on a cattle station called Mongrel Downs, at the western edge of the Tanami Desert in northern Australia, she was paying attention to the way her father, the "outback", and the Aboriginal people shaped her. ...'
Susan Duncan Uncovers Buried Secrets in the House on the Hill, Susan Wyndham , single work review
'... The House on the Hill is built like the earlier memoirs around a new home, and written with the same conversational frankness, self-deprecating amusement, and sensual love of place. ...'
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