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...spectacular catch of shark fin (which can sell for $A200 a kg) and retire. The court houses and lock-ups on Thursday Island and in the Arnhem Land town of Nhulunbuy are stretched due to an official crackdown on FFVs. In 2003, 138 vessels were apprehended, mostly in northern waters; this year the tally has reached 69. Masters are fined in the first instance; jailed for repeat offenses. Boats are impounded (vessel owners pay a bond to retrieve them) or burned at sea if they're not seaworthy. "They've started coming further down into our fishing zone, even deep...
That is about the easiest thing to imagine in the lives of the eight cloistered sisters of the Carmelite Monastery at Goonellabah, near Lismore, in northern New South Wales, who can be seen only through a grilled window in the reception area. It's into this modest room, watched over by old black-and-white photographs of St. Teresa of the Andes, that Sisters Bernadette, Veronica, Antoinette and Maria come in turn, each shedding a little more light on an existence which Sister Veronica herself can imagine outsiders wondering about: "I've been passing the monastery for five years. What...
...warning) to change the way we're utilizing Australia to ensure this wonderful, uniquely Australian story continues to unfold." In the meantime, exploration at Riversleigh will continue. The palaeontologists stress that they've only tinkered at the edges of the area's deposits; to the west, heading toward the Northern Territory, thousands of kilometers of unexamined rock await future generations of scientists. "And we expect," says Archer, "that given the nature of the geology of this region, there's no reason that deposits of as rich a kind as we're discovering now won't be found representing the time...
...white and blue M.C.C. blazer as a volunteer tour guide, showing customers around the stadium that he first visited as a five-year-old. The M.C.G. - or "the G," as locals call it - doesn't look its best right now. The $A430 million redevelopment of the northern side of the ground is in full swing. But between stops to get his breath, Church explains the sights and shares memories with twinkling eyes. "This place has something about it," he says. "The people who work here . . . it just seems to grab them...
...everybody else, could he? That angel he's got in England - that's just mind-boggling, the size of that goddamn thing." In 1995, the Turner Prize?winning artist erected a 22-m-high steel angel with wings the span of a jumbo jet's on a hill in northern England. But that was nothing compared to the logistics of Lake Ballard...