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Qantas is also offering an "Outback Airpass" package, which includes tickets to Australia from Los Angeles or San Francisco, tickets on three domestic flights and hotel upgrades at any Voyages hotel in the Northern Territory, the famous Australian Outback, plus tickets to the Territory Wildlife Park. Book by Jan. 31, 2009, for travel through August. Prices start...
...over. This year the German carrier has taken a 42% stake in Austrian Airlines, with plans to pick up the rest later, and a similar share in Brussels Airlines, which handed the Cologne-based carrier access to west Africa. British Airways has been talking to Spain's Iberia and Australian carrier Qantas about a merger...
...Utzon's Legacy In his milestone item on Jorn Utzon, architect Richard Meier wrote that "a disagreement with the Australian government" led Utzon to resign from the Sydney Opera House project before it was complete [Dec. 15]. The Australian government was not involved in the project. The government of the state of New South Wales was in charge. When a new government took over in 1965, it complained that the project was taking too long and costing too much. Utzon's authority was usurped and he was made to sit in the corner. How could he possibly have stayed...
Acclaimed for his illustrated books The Lost Thing (2000) and The Red Tree (2001), the Australian artist, illustrator and writer Shaun Tan took an enormous leap in recognition two years ago with the publication of The Arrival, his miraculous, wordless graphic novel, executed entirely in sepia-tinted drawings of breathtaking beauty and originality. It went on to bag a clutch of prestigious awards and became a New York Times best-selling children's book...
...Utzon will also be remembered as a somewhat tragic figure. He saw his dream destroyed and his design modified after a disagreement with the Australian government resulted in his resignation from the project before its completion. Sadly, the experience prevented him from creating more than...