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...Like Vic, Winton was born in 1960, a policeman's son who moved from Perth to the south coast as a boy. Unlike Vic, the author hasn't much to be disappointed by. With a cabinet of literary trophies for his clean, muscular prose (Nicole Kidman is negotiating to star in an adaptation of his 2002 Miles Franklin Award?winning Dirt Music), this former small-town boy is the ultimate sea-changer. Yet in The Turning, Winton presides as the deity of disappointment - from the opening lines of the first story, Big World, where two beachcombing mates graduate from high...
...provider of onboard emergency medical assistance for ships and airlines. Founded in 1986 by former nurse Joan Sullivan Garrett, MedAire has grown from a tiny one-woman shop into a $17 million-in-sales company that is now listed on the Australian Stock Exchange after buying a company in Perth that operates Western-style medical clinics in Asia. MedAire, which is based in Tempe, Ariz., made the acquisition in an effort to grab a bigger slice of the estimated $1 billion medical-assistance market for travelers, with Singapore-based International SOS gobbling up some 40% of the industry's revenues...
...EQUESTRIAN Hawley Bennett, Langley, B.C. Stuart Black, Orangeville, Ont. Ashley Holzer, Toronto Cynthia Ishoy, Jerseyville, Ont. Bruce Mandeville, Puslinch, Ont. Ian Millar, Perth, Ont. Leslie Reid, Langley, B.C. Ian Roberts, Victoria, B.C. Belinda Trussell, Stouffville, Ont. Michael Winter, Toronto...
...SWIMMING Keith Beavers, Orangeville, Ont. Mike Brown, Perth, Ont. Scott Dickens, Ancaster, Ont. Jennifer Fratesi, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Erin Gammel, Barriere, B.C. Brent Hayden, Mission, B.C. Andrew Hurd, Oakville, Ont. Riley Janes, Saskatoon, Sask. Brian Johns, Richmond, B.C. Mark Johnston, St. Catharines, Ont. Morgan Knabe, Calgary Rhiannon Leier, Winnipeg Yannick Lupien, Ste-Foy, Que. Mike Mintenko, Moose Jaw, Sask. Nathaniel O'Brien, Victoria, B.C. Brittany Reimer, Surrey, B.C. Matt Rose, Lindsay, Ont. Rick Say, Salmon Arm, B.C. Lauren van Oosten, Calgary Elizabeth Warden, Toronto...
...answer. In a place where employment opportunities are, as Finlayson puts it, "zilch," Gormley's Inside Australia is a potential tourist goldmine. Shire plans are already underway for a $A175,000 development of the site, making the sculptures more secure, and improving visitor facilities. Meanwhile on a billboard in Perth, a Kalgoorlie promotion features one of the sculptures, with the words: do you want a close encounter? Perhaps even more crucial than the lure of tourist dollars is the lifting of a town's sagging spirits. And it's taken an eccentric Englishman to show black and white Australia coexisting...