Mirror image
by Peter Taylor
As the sun rises, a
pair of Australian
ringneck parrots heads
to a local dam for a
morning drink at Bowra
Station, an Australian
Wildlife Conservancy
property west of
Cunnamulla, QLD.A NEW STATE
I am convinced that Australia will
never develop to its true potential
until there are a few more states.
None of the existing states will fully
develop the regions far away from
their capital cities, which is where
the majority of their populations
are found.
A Pilbara city by the sea will only
develop when the Pilbara region
becomes a state. A standard gauge
railway could be built from here to
Rockhampton-Gladstone by way of
Alice Springs and Longreach. When
that happens, two steel mill cities
will develop at both ends of the
railway, and Australia can become
an exporter of steel.
HARRISON H. DUNCAN, CARDWELL, QLDtrue extent of the historic huts,
particularly those in the Ross Sea
region. I was able to visit
Shackleton’s Nimrod hut (Cape
Royds) and Scott’s Terra Nova hut
(Cape Evans), which have both been
conserved by the New Zealand
Antarctic Heritage Trust.
I also visited Scott’s Discovery
Hut (Hut Point), which was still
under conservation. We saw
Borchgrevink’s Cape Adare huts
from the ship but couldn’t visit due
to the ice. The huts’ contents are
amazing and so well preserved for
future generations to learn from. It
was a privilege to be able to visit the
huts in a part of Antarctica only
visited by 350-odd tourists each year.
KAREN LONG, MILES, QLDMailbag
Barnardius zonariusDOWN SOUTH
Reading History brought to life
(AG 119) took me back to the Ross
Sea region of Antarctica, which I
sailed to in January this year with
Heritage Expeditions. As a teacher,
I have often taught classes about
Antarctica, even building a replica
Mawson’s Hut from paddle-pop
sticks and matchsticks.
Despite that, I hadn’t realised theSubmit your photographs
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