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...resident of Australia's most isolated city, Perth, where she teaches cinema and cultural studies at the University of Western Australia, the author has herself become dependent on phone and e-mail. As with fellow West Australians Tim Winton and Elizabeth Jolley, isolation has brought its own literary rewards for Jones, 50. "It's a supportive writing community," she says of Perth, "and feels outside of the more pathological aspects of competition and anxiety that sometimes seem to me very conspicuously a part of Melbourne and Sydney." And it's perhaps no accident that the themes of distance and disclosure...
...cities in Southeast Asia, with a sparkling new performing-arts center and some of the best restaurants in the world. After decades of strong economic growth, per-capita income last year was $24,220, about the same as Italy. As they trip around Asia, popping off to Bali or Perth for the weekend while dressed in Prada and Gucci, wealthier Singaporeans could be forgiven for pitying their former European masters, whose day in the sun - they will sometimes tell you - is now all but over...
...Sarah Fyffe will be happy to hear that. The Perth dog trainer became so incensed by negative attitudes to dingoes that earlier this year she applied for a license to keep three dingoes - and train them, at her own cost, to detect explosives. "I wanted to destroy the myths that they're untrainable and dangerous." Two months into her year-long project, the animals have surpassed her expectations. Hybrids she's tried to train for clients have been "like badly wired electrical systems," but the senses of the pure dingo - stubborn but smart - are undiluted. If they're not patrolling...
While in Australia, Offsay will be playing with the Freemantle Mariners, a team located in Perth...
...Perth, Australia...