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...Winton, created a young surf rat not too dissimilar to Wade, and the children's TV series based on him, Lockie Leonard, has been shooting at the author's alma mater, Albany Senior High School. While the cost of lugging cast and crew more than 400 km south of Perth for the 21-week shoot undoubtedly cut into the $A7.5 million budget, the decision was a natural one for producer Kylie du Fresne. "Everything Tim writes about in the book is here," she says...
Truckers Darren Schneider and Rod Bryson couldn't have chosen a more dramatic place to stop. But having turned off the 90 Mile Straight, "Australia's Longest Straight Road," in the early hours of the morning en route from Melbourne to Perth, their three-carriage Kenworth inexplicably shuts down. A misty dawn reveals an endless vista of saltbush: They're bang in the middle of an ancient seabed stretching 700 km from South Australia's Head of the Bight west to Balladonia. Nullarbor translates as "no trees" in Latin, and for the moment the truckers are without a clue. "Usually...
...Sean Devenish's parents withdrew him from his Perth school 10 years ago when he was in Year 5. A bright boy, "I'd finish a task," he says, "then wait for the rest of the kids to catch up." His sister Joanne, meanwhile, was struggling in Year 3 and feeling stupid, and her parents pulled her out at the same time. Today, in their new home in Colebrook, north of Hobart, none of the Devenishes' eight children attends formal classes. "We help them excel at what they're good at and work on their weaknesses," says mother Helen. Joanne...
...Hilsen is happy if just a handful of people apply for a position. Ten years ago, "you got so many you didn't have time to look at them all." Wages in several states are rising thanks to successful union claims - and bigger paychecks mean more than money, says Perth child-care worker Shannon Burns: "It shows the community we are professionals." Only a handful of 50 diploma students Burns graduated with six years ago are still in the industry. The low pay has made her consider leaving several times; she's stayed, she says, only because she loves what...
...Fulfilling that promise with greater technical assurance and weight comes Dreams of Speaking, a gorgeous hallucination of the 20th century. Estranged from her working-class family in Perth and the "buzzing" new world that awaits her, Alice Black takes herself off to Paris to work on her manuscript where she meets Mr. Sakamoto, himself researching the life of Alexander Graham Bell. Over glasses of red wine, and later by e-mail, they toast their love of modernity. "The telephone is our rapturous disembodiment," a typical paean begins. "We breathe our selves, like lovers, into its tiny receptacle, and glide...